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COLD SPELL Jan 28th Onwards: Wintry Showers/Frosty, Some Snow Accumulations
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Temp fluctuating between -1c and +0.5C depending on how much cloud is overhead... I'm not overly optimistic about the Irish Sea getting its act together based on today so far but would like to be pleasantly surprised...
We definitely need a thumbs down for the bah humbug comments but this will have to do for the moment
Edit (cos I feel bad): I know it's not really a bah-humbug comment! Sorry Blizzard0 -
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icesnowfrost wrote: »A come on I don't mean it like that
but it could of been a snow fest and met e didn't go into it much and THIS TIME lucky for them. Do u no wat I mean?
Not lucky at all. They waited till the models were in a reliable time frame. If it was model 48 hours before hand for nation wide snow then their forecast would have mirrored that.
It would have been mad for them to call for snow 5 days out.
you can call moderate rain out at 4 days. The disturbance for rain for most people has little impact on them. But snow is different. It disturbs everyone who has intentuons of leaving the house.
It's unfair to say MET E where lucky when they get it right, but not to call it unlucky when they get it wrong.
Most of us got no snow. Like Met E said, thats why they have jobs. Fair play to them.
On to the next roller coaster0 -
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icesnowfrost wrote: »A come on I don't mean it like that but it could of been a snow fest and met e didn't go into it much and THIS TIME lucky for them. Do u no wat I mean?
No idea0 -
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Concerning any out of the ordinary weather event at any time of the year it always really annoys me how worked up people get about what did or didn't happen in the end or the told ya so's or the MET were right HAHA or the MET were wrong HAHA or the Forum regulars were right HAHA or Wrong HAHA.
People need to understand:
Weather Forecasting is not an exact science. (Chaotic systems)
There are reliable and unreliable forecasting timeframes.
There are differing reliable and unreliable forecasting timeframes for different types of weather events.
That the MET do not have the luxury of calling things as early as the forecasting regulars here.
That boards forecasters can only describe what the models are showing. Its not that they interpreted what the forecast model was showing wrong but that the model itself was wrong.
The regular boards forecasters get blamed for hyping possible weather events when in fact they are only describing what some models are positing. Its the viewers themselves that let themselves get hyped and hype others in turn.
The way I look at it is that with the MET one will only hear about a big event about 2-3 days out at most for obvious reasons. With boards, I get to hear and enjoy the discussions about the possibility of an event 5-7 days out. If one loses the head every time the models turn out to be wrong but blame the regulars then they'll pack their bags (AGAIN
) and we'll be back to only hearing about events from the MET within a much tighter time frame. 0 -
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