On a previous discussion about weather I posted an extract of a rather patronising response I received from the Met Office after I enquired about the technical capability of their forecasting having been drenched on a day they forecast no rain , see below
Thank you for your recent feedback in connection with the accuracy of our forecasts for your locality in Newcastle in the North East. It is never our intention to mislead and we are very sorry if you have seen a forecast which you found unhelpful.
Thank goodness your destination was well heated and so sorry that you arrived there so wet, it must have been very uncomfortable. [patronising or what]
Perhaps it will help to know that the Met Office graphics' output is derived directly from our models and there is
no manual intervention to edit that data.
The output is automated and a blend of many different models. Given the symbols are updated within every hour, the process also employs an element of "nowcasting" which automatically utilises the most recent available observations from across the UK and around the world. This has been a huge success since it was introduced in 2010 but we do recommend that the site-specific symbols should be read in conjunction with the
regional texts which our forecasters write.
Our computer model produces an excellent representation of the weather symbols, temperatures etc. but sometimes, through the process of averaging over a three hour time period, or averaging over an area, some of the small scale detail can be obscured. However, the forecasters can (and do) update the
regional texts if the complexion of the weather significantly changes. These texts are routinely updated at 04:00 and 16:00 every day. When the symbols and the regional texts are taken together, and with an appreciation for the localised nature of weather, we believe you will gain the best possible forecast.
I thanked them for their response but posted back the very photographs of our Bovine friends I used earlier in the thread and said I would continue to use more reliable sources . What really makes me angry is the investment that the Government have made in the service, in 2014/15 it was a staggering £119 Million and has risen greatly since then , I imagine .