Aah! Spring in the Cotswolds...

[emjaybee]

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the BBC weather forecasting team for being SO far out they might as well just use soddin' tea leaves.

Overcast and dry my sweet patooty.

[Ali Smith]

What makes you think that they don't?

[TrevL]

The BBC don't use The Met Office anymore, it's someone called MeteoGroup, maybe they're not as good?

[Bealman]

They obviously don't look out of the window 

[emjaybee]

The BBC don't use The Met Office anymore, it's someone called MeteoGroup, maybe they're not as good?

I understand that after they've had their morning 'Inclusivity' meeting, they speak to Mystic Meg over a cup of herbal infusion before they go into their 'Diversity' working groups.

They obviously don't look out of the window 

Absolutely. It wasn't like it was a light five minute snow shower. It was quite heavy, and lasted about an hour. You're not telling me it wasn't 'forecastable'.

[Jon898]

Just consider them "Horoscopes with Numbers" and that the forecasters are proud to be "frequently wrong but never in doubt".

[emjaybee]

Day two of the weather as forecast by the

Blithering
Bumbling
Cronies

Yup, another hour of heavy snow, again no mention on the forecast.

Is the licence fee a waste of money? Probably best not to canvas my opinion on that one.

[Dorsetmike]

Well the sunny souf is living up to its name albeit with a cool breeze.

[Bob G]

I used the Met office forecast to predict I could paint some garden furniture today.

Half way through (when Cuprinol says quite candidly DONT try to paint in rain and dont leave it more than 8 hours before a second coat or YOU WILL HAVE TO START AGAIN)  it hailed. Then I did some more painting. Then it hailed some more, and I did finally give up!

Seems the best forecast is The Weather Channel, because my iPhone did predict it was going to absolutely hiss down, but 20 minutes before it did I was still considering sun cream.

Bob

[Bob G]

I'm also not sure about @emjaybee 's skills at geography as well as meteorology

What part of North Oxfordshire where he lives qualifies as the Cotswolds? Is it like in Scotland, where the phrase "by Spean Bridge" means absolutely nowhere near Spean Bridge

he he he

Bob

[Newportnobby]

but 20 minutes before it did I was still considering sun cream.

Will just one coat of the sun cream protect the furniture as well as paint would, Bob?

[Bob G]

It's scary how you mind works Mick @Newportnobby .

  :'(

[emjaybee]

Okay, now it's starting to feel personal...

[chrism]

I used the Met office forecast to predict I could paint some garden furniture today.
Half way through (when Cuprinol says quite candidly DONT try to paint in rain and dont leave it more than 8 hours before a second coat or YOU WILL HAVE TO START AGAIN)  it hailed. Then I did some more painting. Then it hailed some more, and I did finally give up!
Seems the best forecast is The Weather Channel, because my iPhone did predict it was going to absolutely hiss down, but 20 minutes before it did I was still considering sun cream.

Hehe, I had one of the less sharp volunteers at a preserved railway rather worried once.
We'd just had 3-phase electricity installed and the full-timers had made a good solid rail-built protector around the pole that held the transformer so that it wouldn't get demolished by lorries, diggers etc.

This chap had been given the job of painting it in wasp stripes and had made rather a nice job of it. I wandered over, had a look, picked up the paint tins and looked at them, then said,
"Hmm, looks like rain."
"Oh," he said, "is that a problem?"
So I pointed to the labels on the tins where it said "Water Soluble" and walked off 

I did go back later to reassure him that it was only water soluble until it had dried/cured and that he could stop trying to make a shelter for it.

[Bealman]

Okay, now it's starting to feel personal...

Gawd!