Fed uo with BBC/Met Office

Zedicus

I don't expect them to get it right all the time but you'd at least think they could be consistent on their BBC Weather site.

And when they are continually making the same mistakes in a pattern, should they not be able to spot that?

dacouch

Zedicus wrote: »

I don't expect them to get it right all the time but you'd at least think they could be consistent on their BBC Weather site.

And when they are continually making the same mistakes in a pattern, should they not be able to spot that?

You would think the Met would be good at spotting patterns

paddyrg

It's a somewhat impossible task to predict the weather with any accuracy, and they are shockingly accurate compared with any other time in history. If, however, you have spotted some local pattern based on the same data they may be interested if it helps them with a more accurate picture. Write to a weatherman (they're all meteorologists themselves on the BBC) and they might be interested.

peter_the_piper

Rarely know them to be wrong these days.

PasturesNew

Some areas have a little micro-climate. I lived somewhere that had a river and when rain storms were predicted, you could watch the clouds following the river round the town, missing us off entirely.

You need to find a site that's accurate for your 1-2 mile square that's probably got its own microclimate. I like this site as it works for where I am. http://www.accuweather.com/en/gb/united-kingdom-weather

geerex

They make mistakes.

Just like you did with your thread title.

Zedicus

paddyrg wrote: »

It's a somewhat impossible task to predict the weather with any accuracy, and they are shockingly accurate compared with any other time in history. If, however, you have spotted some local pattern based on the same data they may be interested if it helps them with a more accurate picture. Write to a weatherman (they're all meteorologists themselves on the BBC) and they might be interested.

That's an interesting suggestion.

The two thing that I find particularly annoying are that the different elements of the forecast: daily graphic synopsis, hourly graphic synopsis and dynamic weather map are often wildly out of kilter and that (this is the patter part) they continually feed in 'rain' as the daily synopsis on the farthest day forecast which then disappears as it moves closer.

This does seem to be a web problem, the human delivered forecasts seem a lot better.

JJ_Egan

Might read weatheraction.com .

frugal_mike

This is the problem with trying to predict a (mathematically) chaotic system. Very small variations in initial state produce wildly different results, so it is almost guaranteed that the further in the future the prediction is the less accurate it will be.

Honey_Bear

... or the Met Office's own website using your own postcode. This link is for Darlington (where I don't live, just as an example) but I've found it very accurate for where I am.

I'm not knocking the BBC, but I don't need to know what the weather is 5 miles away from where I intend to be, I need it more locally than that. The Met Office's site is more accurate than anything else I've found most of the time, and I'm in an area with a micro-climate. Very occasionally there's a blip when a system is passing through but by and large it's pretty accurate. (I don't work for them.)

enfield_freddy

Honey_Bear wrote: »

... or the Met Office's own website using your own postcode. This link is for Darlington (where I don't live, just as an example) but I've found it very accurate for where I am.

I'm not knocking the BBC, but I don't need to know what the weather is 5 miles away from where I intend to be, I need it more locally than that. The Met Office's site is more accurate than anything else I've found most of the time, and I'm in an area with a micro-climate. Very occasionally there's a blip when a system is passing through but by and large it's pretty accurate. (I don't work for them.)

umm , I put in Preston Lancs , and it tells me what the weather is going to be like 40 miles away


"
Sunday:

A rather cloudy day with light rain at times, mainly across Cumbria. It should stay dry elsewhere but with freshening southwesterly winds. Maximum Temperature 16C."


not exactly local weather is it?


http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/gcw1fe28j