2009 : “how did the Met Office get it so wrong?”

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Tony Heller

  1. Britain will have first decent ‘barbecue summer‘ in three years with …

    Apr 30, 2009 – Dubbing it a “barbecue summer“, they predict it is just the beginning of a series of much nicer summers to come with rainfall much lower than …

  2. Rain puts dampers on ‘barbecue summer‘ | UK news | The Guardian

    Jul 29, 2009 – The Met Office updates forecast and warns of unsettled weather for the holidays.

  3. Met Office left red faced as Britain’s forecast ‘barbecue summer‘ turns …

    Jul 30, 2009 – As the Met Office rather sheepishly announced that it had ‘revised’ its seasonal-forecast, the tourism industry was asking how the experts got …

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5 Responses to 2009 : “how did the Met Office get it so wrong?”

  1. Marian says:
    May 12, 2012 at 10:58 pm

    They go it so wrong because they need more $$$ for even more mega super computers to predict/project even more epic failures of climate forecasts in the coming future. 🙂

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  2. Billy Liar says:
    May 13, 2012 at 12:04 am

    It won’t be for lack of computational effort; apparently it takes months to run a hundred year climate projection even on a supercomputer.

    With that many computations you must need some pretty impressive error control.

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  3. Paul Homewood says:
    May 13, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    They still are no better. On 23rd March, they forecast April would be drier and warmer than normal.

    http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/april-weather-in-the-uk/

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  4. Chuck L says:
    May 13, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    “how did the Met Office get it so wrong?”
    Practice, practice, practice!

    Reply

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