rik-1

Anyone else noticed how bad the BBC weather forecasts are these days.

We were supposed to have rain today where I live so we cancelled the BBQ. Not only that but they predicted heavy rain. We've had dry patches on the ground all day!

It's not the first time, this has happened many times recently, they even predicted heavy snow round here on Easter day but we didn't even get a snowflake!

I wonder if the same computers used for the weather forecast are the same that predict all the climate change decades into the future?

mamoon2

Yep, they got it totally wrong round here too (manchester). Very windy though!

Tam the bam

Ignore ALL the BBC say as I think they make most of it up as they go along!

David Lock

Agree

Woke up to alleged Severe Weather Warning for South Coast Counties. Cancelled an informal lunchtime b-b-q.

Bit of cloud cleared and been sunny for most of the day.

I blame Gordon Brown

Suresh

I was in England last weekend and according the the Beeb and the Met office, the expectation was dry, 18oC and pretty good weather to be outdoors for the whole weekend. According to Dutch website forecasts for London, it was expected to be miserable.

In the end the Dutch were right about the weekend. It was poo i.e. cold and rainy

Wife and kids packed/dressed according to Dutch prediction
I on the other hand got a bout of man flu for trusting the Beeb and walking around in unsuitable summer gear.

So if you want to know what the weather is really going to be like, look here instead:

Weer in de wereld | Teleweer

SWRTWannabe

Our weather courtesy of the BBC said sunny intervals with the odd shower, so went out and got a new barbecue ready for the family coming round.

Still in it's box (the barbecue that is, not the family )- piddled it down continuously since lunchtime.

HankScorpio

I was once tragic enough to track the BBC web page 5 day forecast over 5 days.
The number of times it changed (drastically) as the days went on was scary. I'd love to have a job where I could guess my output, change my mind as often as I liked and know no one expected to me to be right.

corradoboy

I've always found World and Local UK Weather Forecast, Map and Report weather.co.uk to be fairly accurate.

warrenm2

Funnily I noticed it as well today - supposed to be lashing down and havent had a drop all day...

bugeyeandy

Metcheck.com - UK Weather Forecasts - Live Data - Long Range Weather Forecasts

Stick your postcode in - almost always right and most of the time disagrees with the BBC weather!

David Lock

The Great Storm 1987

"Earlier on today apparently a lady rang the BBC and said she heard that there was a hurricane on the way. Well don't worry if you're watching, there isn't." - Michael Fish

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

He was perfectly correct as it wasn't a hurricane. He did also point out a few seconds later that high winds were expected, but that would spoil the soundbite.


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Leslie

In all fairness, the UK is a very difficult area to forecast accurately for because of the changes to the atmospheric systems that can occur very quickly over the Atlantic and the sudden direction changes that they can take as well as the comparatively small land area of this country. I think that all in all they don't do that badly.

Les

pacenote

Another vote for Metcheck

Who'd trust the BBC when their TV graphics depict the UK as a desert

Rudolph Hooker

I think they should forecast some better weather.

Petem95

It must be hard to do decent weather predictions for the UK because the weather is so changable, and you are generalising a large area (ie the forcast will be for Bristol, not 'Jeffs back yard at his house in a part of Bristol' but the forcasts are still quite bad! They tend to change them quite frequently as well - you look on in the morning, and then by the afternoon the forcast has changed completely!

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

well come on, be honest now, nobody actually watches the weather forecast for the weather do they??? it is the weathers girls that we all watch it for in reality!!!!!

scoobynutta555

A forecast is a prediction on events and not an exact science. They're bound to get it wrong now and again, especially with a five day forecast!