Cyril Haearn wrote:Mick F wrote:Read this load of guff from the Met Office.
It actually says nothing.
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That must have been written by a politrickian
Better just to use sun and rain symbols
The thing about "the weather" is that it is a huge, powerful, highly complex and yet chaotic system.
It is also subject to local topographic influences.
Sometimes it is fairly easy to predict for say 5 days or a week ahead or even exceptionally a fortnight(eg. large stable anticyclone).
However sometimes the various influences and air masses are finely balanced in their interactions and which way the balance tips is dependent upon butterflies beating their wings in high places!
That is, I think, the case at the moment and which way it will all go is hard to predict in the long term.
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Regarding the use of symbols instead of text.
I much prefer a simple written forecast than a lot of graphics. I feel, given a well written piece, that one gets a better forecast. It's quicker and conciser and uses far less data.
The piece in question could have been better written. I don't like the word "benign" for example, when "more settled" would be more fitting.
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There is always pressure to give a forecast, I guess, given our unending appetite for control but maybe, there is a once in a while situation that cannot be predicted with any certainty beyond say 4 or five days.
It would indeed be refreshing to see that impotence stated.
"The mixed conditions will continue until Sunday and after that we know less than the ducks"!
All IMHO.