Re: rotten eggs for Piers
- From: "Col" <reddwarfer2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:29:32 -0000
"John Hall" <nospam_nov03@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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He was only a year early. :)
Quite.
Did he predict the sensational cold spell of late December 1995?
If he's been doing this for the best part of thirty years, then
presumably it must pay. I'd be tempted to say good luck to his efforts
to lighten the pockets of those with more money than sense, were it not
for the unnecessary alarm that his forecasts are likely to cause to some
ordinary people who read about them in the press.
Ordinary people who would simply not be expected to know that
the weather forecasts they sometimes read about in the newspapers are
not from some proper and 'official' sourse.
Quite frequently at work I hear people saying that that we are going
to get some severe weather or other in a few weeks or whatever.
The last one was heavy snow over the Christmas/New Year period.
When I hear this I groan inwardly, roll my eyes heavenward and
think 'oh no, not again'.
I attempt to quiz them about where they heard this information
and that the Met Office would never issue such a forecast
because such accuracy at that range isn't possible.
But they don't really remember where they heard it and they certainly
don't understand why these aren't proper forecasts.
As far as they are concerned, a forecast's a forecast.
--
Col
Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
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