Re: Get the bubble wrpa ready!


"Nick Maclaren" <nmm1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> In article <3q2ev8FctrlvU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Broadback <wen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> |> >
> |> Is that like the warning for the long heatwave forecast for this
Summer?
>
> Yes.
>
> |> If they cannot get today or tomorrow correct what chance the next few
> |> months?
>
> Some meterologists are extremely proud of those forecasts because,
> in the past few years, they have started to be more reliable than
> listening to the oldest inhabitant of the local pub. Others feel
> that the difference in reliability is small.
>

I read somewhere that if you forecast every day that tomorrows weather would
be the same as todays, you would have a success rate comparable with the
forecasts on TV.


Steve.


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