Weather Forecasters

[Phil D. Rolls]

Why do they insist on saying things like "chilly old day". Ask any fisherman or farmer or construction worker what the weather is like, I am sure it will be something a little more realistic.

Things took a nosedive for me at the weekend, when some twally on the BBC was describing the way that the weather was going to change, he said it would be a "long old process".

What's it all about? Is it an English thing, like "blimey gov it's nipping me extremities". Or do these people live in a different world.

As for that Suzanne Charlton (?) on the BBC Breakfast Show, I reckon she believes there are fairies living at the bottom of her garden.

As Billy Connolly said, "we know what a cloud looks like, just tell us what the weather is!".

[Marabou Stork]

Yeah.

Global warming is a load of Horse Feathers as well. It's much colder now than it was 6 months ago.

[steakbake]

Why do they insist on saying things like "chilly old day". Ask any fisherman or farmer or construction worker what the weather is like, I am sure it will be something a little more realistic.

Things took a nosedive for me at the weekend, when some twally on the BBC was describing the way that the weather was going to change, he said it would be a "long old process".

What's it all about? Is it an English thing, like "blimey gov it's nipping me extremities". Or do these people live in a different world.

As for that Suzanne Charlton (?) on the BBC Breakfast Show, I reckon she believes there are fairies living at the bottom of her garden.

As Billy Connolly said, "we know what a cloud looks like, just tell us what the weather is!".

Just wait until there is a milimetre of snow in London. Then we'll really know what the apocalypse will be like! The world will stop spinning.

I bet the BBC digital graphics team are working on a "Big Freeze" graphic for the news as I type. Maybe a thermometre with a big blue arrow pointing down?

[Phil D. Rolls]

Just wait until there is a milimetre of snow in London. Then we'll really know what the apocalypse will be like! The world will stop spinning.

I bet the BBC digital graphics team are working on a "Big Freeze" graphic for the news as I type. Maybe a thermometre with a big blue arrow pointing down?

You can bet it won't be a "chilly old day" then, or any other trite remark.

[heretoday]

"Spits and spots of rain" is the one I hate.

[steakbake]

You can bet it won't be a "chilly old day" then, or any other trite remark.

No, it will be "The Great Winter Whiteout of 2009" which brought London (and by extension the rest of the UK) to a devastating, shuddering, shivvering standstill. They might even get Bear Grylls and that other one* in to do survival tips. I reckon they'll also have Peston going on about surviving an ice age and perhaps some sharp analysis from some random MP who has made it his/her duty to prepare the UK for the dawning of the new ice age.

"So, Robert, how long before we see the re-emergence of the Sabre Toothed-Tiger and potentially, how many people will die at it's hands?"


* Ray Mears.

[Jack]

What about Heather with the weather, Gail’s on when its windy!


… and here’s some tosser with the weather summary –

Its going to be snow :blah: and windy :blah: and cold :blah:.

THAT’S NO A SUMMARY IT’S A WINTERY :grr:

[steakbake]

What about Heather with the weather, Gail’s on when its windy!


… and here’s some tosser with the weather summary –

Its going to be snow :blah: and windy :blah: and cold :blah:.

THAT’S NO A SUMMARY IT’S A WINTERY :grr:

Anyone remember Peter Sloss?

[Tinyclothes]

Anyone remember Peter Sloss?

I love Slossy, he made me happy with his friendly, hairy face and slightly lisping words.

[s.a.m]

Anyone remember Peter Sloss?


Has anyone ever seen Peter Sloss and the permanently embarassed looking musician from the Singing Kettle in the same room?:dunno:

[Phil D. Rolls]

Anyone remember Peter Sloss?

Told it how it was, none of this "I'm your best mate and we can have a snowball fight before we have hot choc-o-late and marshmallows".

[Mon Dieu4]

Has anyone ever seen Peter Sloss and the permanently embarassed looking musician from the Singing Kettle in the same room?:dunno:

That would be Gary, he is one of my heroes :faf:

[s.a.m]

That would be Gary, he is one of my heroes :faf:


That's the boy!!!:thumbsup:

[wpj]

Just wait until there is a milimetre of snow in London. Then we'll really know what the apocalypse will be like! The world will stop spinning.

I bet the BBC digital graphics team are working on a "Big Freeze" graphic for the news as I type. Maybe a thermometre with a big blue arrow pointing down?

:agree:we've had emails come round today about severe weather contingency plans! it's a wee bit snow ffs :blah:and then the calls come in saying they're snowed in and cannae come into work :faf:

[steakbake]

Told it how it was, none of this "I'm your best mate and we can have a snowball fight before we have hot choc-o-late and marshmallows".

I'm sure he holds the official record for the amount of bad news in one weather forecast. I remember it. He simultaneously exploded the Santa myth, remarked that we're all fated to die and lectured us all that no-one is exempt from tragedy not forgetting to add that there would be unpleasant squally showers in the Oban area, heading south by dinner time. I believe NHS Glasgow hire him to dish out the bad news in the GUM Clinics.

He is a Rangers fan, which ironically, I found the baddest news of all.

[Phil D. Rolls]

On another weather related point. You don't seem to hear about the Cockbridge to Tomintoul road getting closed so much these days. Is it global warming or have they improved the road?

[judas]

Yeah.

Global warming is a load of Horse Feathers as well. It's much colder now than it was 6 months ago.

I've been saying that for days. So true.

[Sir David Gray]

On a slightly different point, what exactly is the point in weather forecasters, particularly in this country? As far as I'm concerned, they are pretty much a waste of time and money.

I'll give you an example, earlier today I was checking the BBC website to see what forecast they had for the rest of today in my area. At no point did they even mention snow and yet, when I looked out of my window at the same time, there was a full blown blizzard coming down, which lasted for a couple of hours.

This snow was so prolonged and so heavy that it couldn't possibly have just been localised.

These guys get paid a lot of money to do their job and they are totally wrong on quite a regular basis.

You get all these people trying to tell us what the weather's going to be like in four or five decades from now, when they actually find it a difficult enough task to tell us what it's going to be like in four or five days' time.

It would save a lot of money if you just had a couple of people in each town across the country sticking their head out of the window every hour and then e-mailing their observations into the BBC and Sky etc so that it can be posted on their websites.

I don't think it would be much less accurate than the service we have just now.

[greenlex]

Sunny showers!!!!!! WTF :confused:

[lapsedhibee]

Why can't they be more precise about exactly where rainbows begin and end? Gold would come in handy in an economic downturn/recession/crisis/catastrophe. :grr:

[Phil D. Rolls]

Why can't they be more precise about exactly where rainbows begin and end? Gold would come in handy in an economic downturn/recession/crisis/catastrophe. :grr:

Probably the PC Brigade at work again, protecting the rights of migrant mythology workers such as elves and pixies.:grr:

[steakbake]

Probably the PC Brigade at work again, protecting the rights of migrant mythology workers such as elves and pixies.:grr:

Elves and pixies have been a suppressed people for many generations. I don't think it is PC gone mad to try and put them on an even footing with say, gnomes, sylphs and wood spirits.

But that's only half the story. Has anyone else noticed that the BBC have a very blatant pro-Leprechaun bias? Clearly you haven't.

BBC Mythical Realms Service is heavily sponsored by pro-Leprechaun departments within the government, not to forget the fact that there is a very strong and active Leprechaun community in the field of journalism. That recent case where the Leprechauns invaded Fairyland with their shillelaghs was such one sided journalism, I nearly put my PC Brigade Jackboot through the TV screen in anger.

I'm not one to start or indeed sustain a conspiracy theory, but any open minded viewer would see that the BBC know where their interests lie.

I for one will studiously avoid Leprechaun produce in the supermarket henceforth, preferring no shamrocks at all to ones which have been plucked with bloodied hands!

[Phil D. Rolls]

Elves and pixies have been a suppressed people for many generations. I don't think it is PC gone mad to try and put them on an even footing with say, gnomes, sylphs and wood spirits.

But that's only half the story. Has anyone else noticed that the BBC have a very blatant pro-Leprechaun bias? Clearly you haven't.

BBC Mythical Realms Service is heavily sponsored by pro-Leprechaun departments within the government, not to forget the fact that there is a very strong and active Leprechaun community in the field of journalism. That recent case where the Leprechauns invaded Fairyland with their shillelaghs was such one sided journalism, I nearly put my PC Brigade Jackboot through the TV screen in anger.

I'm not one to start or indeed sustain a conspiracy theory, but any open minded viewer would see that the BBC know where their interests lie.

I for one will studiously avoid Leprechaun produce in the supermarket henceforth, preferring no shamrocks at all to ones which have been plucked with bloodied hands!

:hmmm: Remind me, can Leprauchauns eat bacon?

[steakbake]

:hmmm: Remind me, can Leprauchauns eat bacon?

Some might, some might not... why, what have you heard?

[Sylar]

On a slightly different point, what exactly is the point in weather forecasters, particularly in this country? As far as I'm concerned, they are pretty much a waste of time and money.

I'll give you an example, earlier today I was checking the BBC website to see what forecast they had for the rest of today in my area. At no point did they even mention snow and yet, when I looked out of my window at the same time, there was a full blown blizzard coming down, which lasted for a couple of hours.

This snow was so prolonged and so heavy that it couldn't possibly have just been localised.

These guys get paid a lot of money to do their job and they are totally wrong on quite a regular basis.

You get all these people trying to tell us what the weather's going to be like in four or five decades from now, when they actually find it a difficult enough task to tell us what it's going to be like in four or five days' time.

It would save a lot of money if you just had a couple of people in each town across the country sticking their head out of the window every hour and then e-mailing their observations into the BBC and Sky etc so that it can be posted on their websites.

I don't think it would be much less accurate than the service we have just now.

Paid a lot of money?! Don't make me laugh - average salary of a climate modeller isn't much better than a University academic.

Most of the models used by the MetOffice work at scales which are designed for larger grids than the UK as a whole. As such, they rely on downscaling techniques which are still far from being perfected, and remains one of the major issues in climatology at the time being. It's the reason that all climate change projections are done on a global scale, and not per region.

Getting their projections wrong is actually beneficial, as it allows us to see where it goes wrong, what inputs are missing, why projected outputs were wrong and how they can be improved.

We DO seem to be a little way behind the United States NOAA, who have much more powerful models at their disposal.

[Jack]

I think the Met Office and weather forecasting is much better than it was.

[Tinyclothes]

They seem to get it spot on when predicting bad or 'extreme' weather but hardly seem to be able to predict decent weather.

[McSwanky]

Carol Kirkwood though, eh? Don't be daft, of course you would.

[Phil D. Rolls]

Carol Kirkwood though, eh? Don't be daft, of course you would.

I would, and I would get a good night's sleep after it.

[steakbake]

I would, and I would get a good night's sleep after it.

Judith Ralston, anyone? No-one seethes and smoulders onscreen quite like her.

[Phil D. Rolls]

Judith Ralston, anyone? No-one seethes and smoulders onscreen quite like her.

Definitely one for the grown ups. :agree:

[McSwanky]

Judith Ralston, anyone? No-one seethes and smoulders onscreen quite like her.

Not sure she would be interested in you though.....

[ArabHibee]

Judith Ralston, anyone? No-one seethes and smoulders onscreen quite like her.

My Dad was going on about her today when she came on the news at lunchtime!! :bitchy:

[steakbake]

Not sure she would be interested in you though.....

No, she wouldn't be interested. But you know, she can tell me there's light showers ahead any time she likes.

[Phil D. Rolls]

This morning we have been told that all of Europe is suffering in a cold spell. 70 people have died in Poland, and one in Cornwall. We're all in this together you know.

[hibiedude]

I took the wife to work this morning' well I tried' And I got as far as Tesco's in Bathgate the road conditions are the worst I've ever seen since I started driving 25 years ago. The M8 is closed and the city bypass has come to a stand still all schools and colleges closed in West Lothian. All Radio channels are giving out information telling us to stay in-doors because the weather is only going to get WORSE. :wtf: