Met Office! Yer feckin' useless! Are you just looking out the window and updating our forecast as it happens, as that's what it seems like. Today was "sunny intervals all day, less than 5% chance of precipitation", whereas the reality was that it has been hailing and raining for at least half the day, and yesterday's was even worse, as the "may have a 30% chance of light rain for an hour or two", was actually a blizzard for several hours. Are they deliberately doing crap forecasts just so they can ask for more money for an even bigger computer? Just looking at the satellite imagery would give us a better idea than they seem to manage.
A while back their forecast for us said no chance of rain at all (while it was pissing down), and a quick squint at their own satellite imaging shows a bloody great rain storm right over us. Don't they even look at their own information?
And don't get me started on the inconsistencies between their PC website and the mobile app. How come my village is available on the app, yet none of the local villages appear on the website, and I have to go with a town 7 miles away, which is also about 120 metres lower, and has completely different weather much of the time.
I don't recall that when they became an independent organisation rather than a Govt Dept (or was it a quango?) them handing back the taxpayers money used to set it up. Yet they refuse to give long range forecast information to local authorities who want to use it to protect vulnerable people. Bastards.
Grr!
