Beam me to Planet Gore !
But did their unions get people killed by a deliberate slowdown in snow removal?
So the “gaffes” turn out to be predictions that things are going to be warm, when they turn out to be cool. (Gee, I wonder why they would make a mistake in that direction.) Then, when they have an inkling that things really are likely to be cold, they sit on their hands.
They just can’t bring themselves to predict colder anything. It isn’t PC for a liberal.
I guess the Met Office needs to figure out that politics and weather prediction are like oil and water.
An “environmental analyst” has trust issues? The guy is paid to lie (by the BBC) so he assumes everyone else is doing it.
Why does one need a warning that it’s going to be cold or an even unusually cold winter, so as to “prepare’ for it?
Bump for later
Wouldn’t common sense mean that everyone always prepare for the worst possible weather, summer or winter?
Do we need the gummint to tell us what to do?
The Met Office is on a hiding to nothing with these seasonal forecasts. They have always come with a health warning (ignored by the media) that the probability attached to the predicted outcome is low. When they’re wrong (as they inevitably sometimes are) they’re ridiculed or damned as being politically influenced. When they’re right (as they have been more often than not) they’re ignored. When, to avoid these absurdities, they stop publishing seasonal forecasts altogether, they’re condemned for secrecy. You have to be someting of a masochist to be a meteorologist in Britain.
Always wrong the same way.
“Roger Harrabin, an environment analyst at the BBC, told the Radio Times: “The trouble is that we simply don’t know how much to trust the Met Office. How often does it get the weather right and wrong. And we don’t know how it compares with other, independent forecasters. “
Well MR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYST, the solution is a pencil and paper. Record the prediction, check it against the actual results , and tally up the score at the end of the period.
The Met Office has one prime directive and that is to protect the validity of the ‘global warming crisis’. Everything else, including weather prediction, is secondary.
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