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

  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:

    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. 🙂

  2. Billy Liar says:

    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.

  3. 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/

  4. Chuck L says:

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

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