Tv Weather Forecasters

[lankeela]

Do you think they are told to tell us its going to be worse than it is just in case someone does a Michael Fish again? How often recently have weather warning petered out before becoming a problem?

[EDDIE51]

Yes they always state the worst case scenario.
Then, if it is not as bad a forcast they do not get the blame. We have had no trains all day ,due to the rail company shutting down last night to ''avoid disruption'' due to the ''Beast from the East''. As I said in another thread we now have no snow and no trains . ( I live just 25 yards from the rail line, it has been very quiet)

[chrissa1]

Weather forecasting is not an exact, science.

[lankeela]

Have you also noticed the word of the week seems to be 'blowing' snow? Never heard it called that before but our Anglia weather forecaster says it about ten times in every forecast.

[DTCwordfan]

'blowing snow' = a blizzard - in sensible speak

[andy-hughes]

Predicting the weather over a small land mass like the British Isles has always been notoriously difficult.

Even with modern technology, systems can change suddenly and dramatically, so forecasts go askew.

I think on balance they get it right more often than wrong.

[douglas9401]

They also have a bug up their collective bahookie about thunder these days too.

It's only a bit of noise.

[mushroom25]

can't resist this, sorry.....

i'll get me coat....

[andy-hughes]

mushroom - A song as fabulous this should never be resisted, ever!

[goodgoalie]

It's The Hysteria From Siberia

[thistles]

The snow is coming down thick and fast here, with the wind as well it is going around and around, afraid to open the blinds in the morning, from south of Edinburgh.xxx

[Buenchico]

Michael Fish simply stated that there wouldn't be a hurricane (which was true because the winds we got were nowhere near hurricane strength) but that it would be very windy (obviously also true):

[Buenchico]

We're still waiting for our snow though here in Suffolk.

I wanna build a snowman!

[EDDIE51]

Finally snowing hard here and about 2 cm of lying snow.

[Old_Geezer]

Snowed overnight here. A day in (again) methinks.

[Old_Geezer]

Michael did indeed. But the affect was a dismissal of the viewer's high wind warning simply because it had been loosely described as a 'hurrican'; and that's why it's mocked.

[Biccylova]

My old Moores Almanack (published in June) predicted that we would have heavy frost and snowfall after the middle of the month, maybe the weather forecasters should get one, it would be a lot cheaper than all the new technology.

[emmie]

they predicted snow in the capital and that's what we got in abundance, snow and i feel more to come.

[Quoi]

Just for Buenchico - you said the magic words - my Granddaughters drive me crazy with this - maybe you can share the load.