Re: Ankle deep in moaning Minnie's


"Col" <reddwarfer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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.
>
>
But surely Col if it is a knife edge situation, say so. Not these very
stupid very unequivocal sever weather warnings. There is a big difference
between settling snow and rain, therefore say so.


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