[Tech1] Met. Office

[Graeme Wall]

Want one! Definitely wear it in Guildford High Street.
— 
Graeme Wall


> On 19 Aug 2021, at 19:34, Alasdair Lawrance via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Not really related, but I'm becoming increasingly irritated by radio and tv folk saying "....in the coming weeks ( or months)"  What's wrong with "soon"?
> 
> And for ".....in the coming days", why not 'shortly'?
> 
> I've recently been given a face-mask that says "Grumpy, old-fashioned, lefty atheist".
> Daren't wear it down Solihull High street......
> 
> 
> Alasdair Lawrance
> 
> Don’t blame me, I voted Remain.
> 
> 
> 
>> On 19 Aug 2021, at 19:24, Steve Edwards via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Is it just me?  It all seemed to go wrong in 1987 when Michael Fish reported a woman had earlier called the BBC advising of a hurricane on the way before telling the nation: “Don’t worry, there isn’t!”
>> 
>> Since then, I strongly feel the TV weather forecasts are covering for this past mistake by predicting that it is going to be worse than it actually turns out to be. 
>> That way it looks like we can forgive them more easily because we’d already be carrying our brollies!
>> 
>> These days I struggle to remember what the television weather forecasts say because I am distracted by the selection of diverse box ticking weather presenters constantly waving their arms about!
>> 
>> 
>> <Image.jpeg>
>> 
>> 
>> Here in the BBC North West region we have a varied selection of, shall we say, colourful?, weather presenters following the news at 10 (where do they find these people?) we had a big lady with a strong accent who looked as if she had just left her job as a fashion consultant on a building site before turning up for a part time job reading the weather wearing 6” stilettos !
>> 
>> I’m not saying the forecasters are useless but if they were only paid on results, they’d end up owing us money. 
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> PS I can confirm “it will rain or go dark before this time tomorrow”. 
>> 
>>> On 19 Aug 2021, at 15:26, Dave Plowman via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The daily weather forecast has been useless here recently.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> In article <611e1715.1c69fb81.64e16.b168 at mx.google.com>,
>>>   patheigham via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> I wonder if there‘s a case to be made that short-term forecasts have
>>>> become more accurate due to satellite photography. It must be easier to
>>>> track weather fronts and predict where they are going to be in a few
>>>> days, when they can be seen? Pat
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>>    Dave Plowman     dave at davesound.co.uk     London SW 12
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Tech1 mailing list
>>> Tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk
>>> http://tech-ops.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/tech1_tech-ops.co.uk
>> -- 
>> Tech1 mailing list
>> Tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk
>> http://tech-ops.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/tech1_tech-ops.co.uk
> -- 
> Tech1 mailing list
> Tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk
> http://tech-ops.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/tech1_tech-ops.co.uk