Re: Ankle deep in moaning Minnie's


"Rob Overfield" <rob.overfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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But the forecast said I'd be *knee* deep in moaning Minnies!
Typical hype as usual.

> Can I interest everyone in a good old fashioned Yorkshire saying?
>
> "If you can't say summat useful, say nowt."
>
> Besides, i found the forecast were pretty much spot on for here, as David
> has said, for around here.
>
> Personally, I think its the pathetic desire for for the snow that has caused
> this outbreak of bleating. Witrh all that noise I thought I was in New
> Zealand!!
>
> May I just remind people of the definition of 'forecast': "estimate or
> prediction before the event" It does not mean "certain to happen events".
> Now grow up the lot of you. Yes the 'estimate or prediction' before the
> events was slightly out as the fronts came across, with a little extra warm
> air involved, thus raising the temp sufficiently and preventing snow
> falling.

I wouldn't go as far as some (I mean you Lawerence!) in saying there
is wholescale hype but there is certainly some. Indeed as I have
mentioned before, a certain degree of it is understandable.
However time and time again we get situations where actual conditions
are not as bad as forecast. I know it can be knife edge but it almost
always ends up on the side of better than expected, rather than worse.
Now it seems unlikely that they will keep on 'getting it wrong' in
this manner, if they were just bad forecasters then you would expect
as many 'worse than forecast' as 'better than forecast'.

> Now shut up, the weather is still an unknown science, accept that.

Everybody accepts that. It's the over-hyping that is annoying.

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.


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