jim8flog
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if not already saidI thought the BBC got their forecasts from the Met Office![]()
BBC get their forecasts from METEO not the Met Office
if not already saidI thought the BBC got their forecasts from the Met Office![]()
I've already been corrected.if not already said
BBC get their forecasts from METEO not the Met Office
My understanding is that the forecasts use Monte Carlo prediction techniques. Because weather is a complex chaotic system, tiny differences in starting conditions can have huge impacts on what happens.
So they run the same model dozens of times with slightly different starting conditions. If 90% of those model runs predict rain, then they report a 90% chance of rain, and so on.
Probably explains why they need that $$$$ supercomputer.Thousands of times, probably tens of thousands of times actually.
Pretty certain he took a £400k pay cut to become more in line with the women at BBCHad to cut back to a cheaper version to give Gary Lineker another pay rise.
They aren't reporting for Merrow, they are reporting for vast areas. In my case the area they report stretches from the Pennines to the North Sea and Durham to Whitby, so what he says makes complete sense, to me.I look up the report for "Merrow". Merrow is a pretty small place so it is unlikely that 10% of it would receive rain and the other 90% would not. And the BBC uses "... chance of precipitation ...". If they are talking about a percentage of an undefined area receiving precipitation, then they are using the wrong word.
Good job were playing the Stableford this afternoon....all the morning bunch are getting a dousingBased on forecast fir yesterday, you would have stayed in bed. Rain and windy.
Teed off at 9.00, played in shirtsleeves. Similar this morning.