I know it’s seen as a popular British pastime to complain about the weather, but it is the middle of our summer and I’m sitting here in the office watching it absolutely p****ing it down outside. In the spring the Met Office were forecasting a “barbecue summer” but apparently they’ve now had a rethink and it’s going to be cool and wet well into august.
If you work for the met office, here’s some advice. Quit! It is an organisation which is simply not fit for purpose. This is the third year in a row where their seasonal forecast has been substantially wide of the mark. With all the equipment and manpower they throw at their forecasting, you’d think they’d have some accuracy. Even the five day forecast changes drastically from day to day and rarely matches what they forecast five days ago. Even blind luck would probably be more accurate!
They attempt to point out that we have forgotten the “heatwave” we had in June. Some areas of the country did indeed have almost ten days of nice weather. What did we get in the Midlands? Rain. Lashings of it. Blocked drains, flooded roads and houses and plenty of thunderstorms.
My idea of a weather forecast now is to look out of the damn window!
Funny how the Met office is fairly accurate during the autumn and winter with its forecasts, but can and does get it very wrong in the summer! Is it because we need tourism, therefore to give an accurate (rainy) account of our up and coming summer, would lose the tourism trade millions of ££’s???? I strongly suspect this is the case.