met office cool on heatwave ...

looks as though the media talked up a story

http://www.metoffice.com/corporate/pressoffice/2005/pr20050512.html

so if you are planning your summer holiday:

"
Temperature: Probabilities favour near average temperatures over much of central and northwest Europe, from the northern Adriatic across the Alps and into England and southern Scotland, also over parts of southern Scandinavia and around the northern Baltic. ... Over the extreme southeastern Mediterranean and over northern Scandinavia and northwest Russia, there is a bias for above average temperatures. Elsewhere probabilities are equally balanced."
http://www.metoffice.com/research/seasonal/monthly_public/headline.html


not exactly ' phew wot a scortcher' ...

 

.. but I should have read on ..

"Further outlook to end of September

"Over most of the countries in and around the Mediterranean, excluding the far southeastern Mediterranean, there is a bias towards above average temperatures. Probabilities also favour above average temperatures in a band from the UK, across Scandinavia and into the far northwest of Russia. Across the Benelux countries and into countries bordering the southern Baltic, probabilities favour near average temperatures. .... Probabilities favour above average rainfall in a broad band from the UK and northwest Iberia, across most of central- northern Europe into western Russia."

 

Certain people in the Met Office got misquoted too in those print articles - they released a news item almost immediately, correcting things...

 

Misquoted which way? Good or bad?

 

They want to have it both ways: look at how far ahead we can predict the weather with our shiny new computers (but don't blame us if we get tomorrow's weather wrong).

According to Friday's forecast yesterday was supposed to be cloudy with showers where I live. In fact it was bright sunshine all day long. We seem to be having Sunday's weather today!

 

The weather has been very accurate in the last week, i.e sunny and warm. Today though has been not nice but that was predicted a week ago. According to the weather channel its going to be raining in here for the next 10 days

Either way so far although we have had a few bright warm days I certainly don't think there will be a 2003 heat wave.

 

Off the top of my head, they'd misquoted a certain Andy Yeatman as saying something he hadn't - think he was saying it WAS going to be a heatwave, but could be wrong