The Met Office welcomes the findings of the Transport Select Committee and its acknowledgement of the quality of our short range forecasts provided during November and December of last year.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
Google Search
-
Recent Posts
- Election Results
- “Glaciers, Icebergs Melt As World Gets Warmer”
- “falsely labeling”
- Vote For Change By Electing The Incumbent
- Protesting Too Much Snow
- Glaciers Vs. The Hockey Stick
- CNN : Unvaccinated Should Not Be Allowed To Leave Their Homes
- IPCC : Himalayan Glaciers Gone By 2035
- Deadly Cyclones And Arctic Sea Ice
- What About The Middle Part?
- “filled with racist remarks”
- Defacing Art Can Prevent Floods
- The Worst Disaster Year In History
- Harris Wins Pennsylvania
- “politicians & shills bankrolled by the fossil fuel industry”
- UN : CO2 Killing Babies
- Patriotic Clapper Misspoke
- New York Times Headlines
- Settled Science At The New York Times
- “Teasing Out” Junk Science
- Moving From 0% to 100% In Six Years
- “Only 3.4% of Journalists Are Republican”
- “Something we are doing is clearly not working”
- October 26, 1921
- Hillary To Defeat Trump By Double Digits
Recent Comments
- Michael Spencer on Election Results
- Jack the Insider on Election Results
- Caleb Shaw on Election Results
- Caleb Shaw on Election Results
- Mac on Election Results
- Disillusioned on Election Results
- Francis Barnett on Election Results
- Robertvd on Election Results
- Disillusioned on Election Results
- arn on Election Results
The winter forecast would not be considered short range, as it goes out 3 months. But it sucked nevertheless. Then, of course there are so many weasel words in their short range forecasts that they can seldom be completely wrong. They shouldn’t be blowing their own horn one way or another.
Steve, I didn’t read the caption on the top. Sorry about that.
but the MET is tied into global warming…
…and the biggest part of global warming is forecasting the weather
Weather forecasting has very little in common with climate modeling. An average temperature for a date that might be predicted to rise by a degree in 50 years varies by many times that for a given date.
Why do you say that? Climate models extend weather models by adding additional parameters which vary over time (like atmospheric chemistry.)
Some folks actually believe the tale that Climate models are NOT related to Weather models! Ignorant fools!
The Met Office are an open joke in the UK. Most people just do the very opposite of what the forecast.
Pirs Corbyn said about the MET’s expensive computer, “It just allows them to get the wrong answer sooner.