I F*$!!%@ HATE weather forecasters.....
14 June 2006, 10:48 AM
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I F*$!!%@ HATE weather forecasters.....
What a Fekking waste of space they are. ALL this week since Sunday, they've had it wrong.
Monday, both TV and Metoffice said hot and dry. We got thunder storms!
Tuesday, TV said rain am, fine and dry pm, Metoffice said rain pm, fine night: It rained from 4pm all evening., with thunderstoirms, which both parties said would be confined to the South East. It was also VERY muggy, when both said cooler....
Wednesday, TV says SUNSHINE and cloud, Metoffice says some cloud but dry. IT'S BEEN FEKKING RAINING SINCE 0630!!! It's STILL drizzling at 1100!
B@st@rds! Who pays them, and more to the point WHY???????? They are no better than thieves and conmen.
Oh, and while I'm on the subject, I'm SICK of hearing TV weather read in a Scottish accent with stupid Scottish-isms mixed in: "A WEE bit drier" indeed. Weathergirl/"man": this is ENGLAND "Wee" means to have a slash!
Rant over, Alcazar
Monday, both TV and Metoffice said hot and dry. We got thunder storms!
Tuesday, TV said rain am, fine and dry pm, Metoffice said rain pm, fine night: It rained from 4pm all evening., with thunderstoirms, which both parties said would be confined to the South East. It was also VERY muggy, when both said cooler....
Wednesday, TV says SUNSHINE and cloud, Metoffice says some cloud but dry. IT'S BEEN FEKKING RAINING SINCE 0630!!! It's STILL drizzling at 1100!
B@st@rds! Who pays them, and more to the point WHY???????? They are no better than thieves and conmen.
Oh, and while I'm on the subject, I'm SICK of hearing TV weather read in a Scottish accent with stupid Scottish-isms mixed in: "A WEE bit drier" indeed. Weathergirl/"man": this is ENGLAND "Wee" means to have a slash!
Rant over, Alcazar
14 June 2006, 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted by alcazar
Oh, and while I'm on the subject, I'm SICK of hearing TV weather read in a Scottish accent with stupid Scottish-isms mixed in: "A WEE bit drier" indeed. Weathergirl/"man": this is ENGLAND "Wee" means to have a slash!
14 June 2006, 11:10 AM
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They have them out here but not sure why
Each and every day: Hot & sunny, little chance of rain - currently 44 degrees outside!
Oh and not really summer yet, expecting highs of 55 degrees!
Still no hosepipe ban mind
Each and every day: Hot & sunny, little chance of rain - currently 44 degrees outside!
Oh and not really summer yet, expecting highs of 55 degrees!
Still no hosepipe ban mind
14 June 2006, 11:16 AM
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Oh, and while I'm on the subject, I'm SICK of hearing TV weather read in a Scottish accent with stupid Scottish-isms mixed in: "A WEE bit drier" indeed. Weathergirl/"man": this is ENGLAND "Wee" means to have a slash!
).So when the pretty wee lass gives you a complete load pf b*****ks for the weather reports, you'll believe them
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14 June 2006, 12:03 PM
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Well here, Surrey, they reckoned on peeing rain on mon and fine tues. It was lovely mon and absolutely hammered down tues - it can't be that hard to get a better idea. I usually watch the forecasts just before bed and they can't even get it right 9 hours before! They've got worse over the years IMHO.
Now I ride a ZX6R to work I keep my eye on it more and they have been attrocious with their predictions in the last year.
Metcheck is one of the best, uk.weather.com is a complete joke.
BBC and metoffice are one and the same, but the BBC are so sh!te, they can't even get their forecasts on TV, BBCi and the web the same
Now I ride a ZX6R to work I keep my eye on it more and they have been attrocious with their predictions in the last year.
Metcheck is one of the best, uk.weather.com is a complete joke.
BBC and metoffice are one and the same, but the BBC are so sh!te, they can't even get their forecasts on TV, BBCi and the web the same
14 June 2006, 12:52 PM
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Ageed alcazar they are all fecking useless. Was planning to come to work on the bike yesterday and today as they forecasted it to be lovely and sunny in Leeds. Its still raining and my bike is still in the garage.
Becky Mantin maybe as fit as **** but she can't predict that tomorrow will be Thursday with any great certainty
What pisses me off are non-commital phrases such as 'scattered showers', 'mostly dry' etc. All I want to know is whether it will rain where I live. Surely it can't be that difficult in 2006. Can it?
T
and my bike is still in the garage.Becky Mantin maybe as fit as **** but she can't predict that tomorrow will be Thursday with any great certainty
What pisses me off are non-commital phrases such as 'scattered showers', 'mostly dry' etc. All I want to know is whether it will rain where I live. Surely it can't be that difficult in 2006. Can it?
T
14 June 2006, 01:08 PM
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sorry mate , but i disagree, where i live they have benn spot on for the last 2 weeks !! but as was said by Swiss tony , metcheck is the one to use !!
14 June 2006, 01:19 PM
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We should fine them if they're wrong, like Moscow does...
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1295274.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1295274.html
14 June 2006, 09:40 PM
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15 June 2006, 12:26 AM
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Originally Posted by DocJock
15 June 2006, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Leslie
They are only telling you what the computers tell them to.!
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I'm convinced the forecast used to be more accurate when I was a teenager and doing lots of boat fishing. You needed to know what the weather was like because it could get quite dangerous if a squall blew up. We could reply on a 2 or 3 day forecast then. Now I only trust the one given out that morning but even that can be b*llux. Thge other morning I was hearing that the 'current rain would die away to leave a fine afternoon' - this was mid-morning. The fine weather that was surrounding the car when I listened to this then turned into rain for the rest of the day ...!!!!! And the weather was being read out less than 1 mile from where I was at the time - near the Madjeski Stadium in Reading where the local radio station broadcast from.
Weather forecaster? They have no clue ....
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15 June 2006, 04:16 PM
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my 2p, it's all part of the dumbing down. At least they used to show high and low pressure areas, isobars, fronts etc., so you could form your own opinions and estimate things like strong winds. Now its all dumbed down to symbols for the hard of thinking. They calculate to n decimal places and then plonk a cloud symbol on the whole NW 
16 June 2006, 01:52 PM
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In Jockland it's even worse. The BBC National Weather comes on and you get the weather map and it will show the whole of the UK in Sunshine. Then the Jockanese forecaster comes on with the same map - close up of Jockland - but it's gonna be raining all day 
It wouldn't be too bad if either of the dozy tw@ts was right !!!!
It wouldn't be too bad if either of the dozy tw@ts was right !!!!
16 June 2006, 01:54 PM
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And another thing - when are we gonna get a weather MAN - Had enough of Weather GIRLS and Weather Pooftas - At least the Weather MEN get it right.
Except for Michael Fish
Except for Michael Fish
16 June 2006, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Reality
And another thing - when are we gonna get a weather MAN - Had enough of Weather GIRLS and Weather Pooftas - At least the Weather MEN get it right.
Except for Michael Fish
Except for Michael Fish
16 June 2006, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Iwan
What about that mincer Francis Wilson on Sky, or John Kettley, or that weird guy who used to run around on the floating map in a harbour wearing hand knitted jumpers?
16 June 2006, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by sti-04!!
You make take our lives .................. but you'll never take our WEATHER 
**** off to France if you dont like it
**** off to France if you dont like it
9 months of pish weather and 3 months of WINTER
As for France - I'd rather stay in Baghdad
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