Do we need weather forcasts?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ears-predictions.html

Well do we really need TV weather forecasts in particular?

All the hype and trimmings, when it could just be a rolling forecast at the bottom of the screen.

[I.Don No]

I often find that any given forecast in the morning will get that afternoon wrong, so I rely on the best 'forecast' I have found...................just look out of the window!

[grasscarp]

Many years ago I was working in BBC Radio News. We had a letter from a lady asking if the weather forecast could be put on earlier as she never knew whether to take a cardigan out with her!!!!!

[anotheoldgit]

"Rain before seven, fine before eleven"

Not very often this one is wrong..

[boxtops]

The weather they tell us for the SE is often wrong for this particular corner - we get what they are having in the Pas de Calais, not in London.

[anotheoldgit]

Then the French should pay for your forecasts.

[anotheoldgit]

Steve.5

So being a cricket umpire you will know that you can generally not go far wrong if you look at the sky, and you can then tell what the weather is going to be like.

[TCL-MUMPING]

"So being a cricket umpire you will know that you can generally not go far wrong if you look at the sky, and you can then tell what the weather is going to be like." looking at the sky gives no guide as to how long the weather will last will it? Looking out the window here in Corby will not tell me what like the weather is in Aberdeen now, let alone the rest of the day.

As for the tv weather forecasts, it would need to be a long rolling text at the bottom of the screen to convey all the information that a map and symbols convey.

[ludwig]

I think they could be alot shorter and to the point. They ramble on for what seems like hours about wind directions, low and high pressure areas and temperatures, when all most people want to know is if it's going to rain/snow or not and for how long or if it's going to be really hot.

You only need to know more if you're a farmer or planning on taking your hot air balloon out tomorrow, in which case you get specialist information from different sources anyway.

[rov1200]

You only have to look at the satellite pictures of weather down below to see how impossible to get an accurate forecast it is. The swirling winds and cloud formations is almost impossible to predict anything too far ahead. It may be okay if weather always followed a certain pattern but chaos theory interrupts and from then its always guesswork.

[Quinlad]

I deset weather forecasts. Five minutes at the end of every main news bulletin is totally disproportionate to their importance.

[Lonnie]

Long range weather forecasting for this country is, and always will be almost an impossibility, because,

1) We are a small Island.

2) its geographical position.

3) Britain gets hit by at least six different weather fronts, some at the same time,
and very rarely, all at the same time.

[IggyB]

I can't stand the weather forecasts on the morning news - first you get the news and weather in your area and then it back to the studio for MORE weather!! when we live on such a little island is there really any point for having both... I'm with anotheroldgit on this one - rolling info along the bottom for anyone that cares to read it - though having said that the actual content of the news bulletins is a bit weak at the moment (e.g. "doctor says butter is quite fatty etc) so if the news producers were given more time they wouldn't invest this in good journalism they would just have more inane rubbish about the lives of celebrities, health scares etc