Winter Weather 2010

So, it turns out this is going to probably be another strange winter in this part of the world. This is the next few day forecast according to the BBC Site for my local area...



Notice how on Monday it hits -4C (24.8F) yet the following day it hits temperatures no lower than 8C (46.4F). Another strange thing is how it is expected to be sunny and no cloud (very rare to have outside of summer here). I did laugh when i saw that the max temperature is actually colder than the expected minimum temperature on Tuesday!

A few days ago i was driving out in my car, i sat in it for a few moments at the end of my journey as i was listening to the radio for a bit. In the few minutes i was sitting idle the temperature climbed from -1.5C to +1C.

Last year was one of the coldest winters on record here, we had an unusually large amount of snow fall (nothing in comparison to what some people get in the US and Canada i have to admit) and there is word of this coming winter being the same.

Don't listen to any forecasts. They are totally worthless. It's all guess work. Meteorologists should only get minimum wage. They aren't worth any more.

Pretty standard weather for around here this time of year. Lots of rain and no sun shine with snow just outside of our grasp.

I don't know... the forecast I get in my area is always on the spot...

It snows everywhere around me, just not on me Its amazing how much a couple hundred feet of elavation does.

Kind of removes the "global warming" theory I would imaging

Its really neat looking out my window right now because as I look up the mountain behind my office you can tell exactly where above-freezing ends and below-freezing begins because there is a very straight line where the snow stops.

Bogey, if the forecasts in your area are they good, you're very lucky.

Did you know that when a weather forecast says there's going to be a 25% chance of rain, what that means is for the area they're providing a forecast for, 25% of that area will get rained on during the day ?

Yeah, the forecast in my area are good. I haven't had a forecast that was wrong yet.

I did not know that. That is interesting though.

Although weather can at times be unpredictable, meteorologists do a hell of a lot of work inputting current data into extensive models they've built, and are generally on or around the mark, here at least, so I find your view a little ignorant. Of course, it all depends on the money behind it.

Ignorant? I don't care how much work they do. Maybe Australia has better meteorologists. Right now the sun is shining here & it was supposed to be raining. They are good for the next 12 hours at best. After that, it's anyone's guess. I rarely look at forecasts anymore. I've wasted too much time already.

It took me a split second to scan over what they believe the weather to be in this area. As it turns out the forecast changed as time progressed, however it wasn't too far off the original prediction posted above.

I'll agree with Breeze regarding the Australian forecasts, when i was in Australia a few years back i saw the forecast alot after the news and it was almost always correct. Temperature was very often spot on.

Most meteorologist are full of *plum*. Back in the day when I worked in a tv station the weather guy had his fancy weather modeling computer that made all the maps and stuff, then he had a subscription to some online weather predicting service, but for his forecasts he used data from the National Weather Service website. So during every news show he would say "So depending on which model you look at....." meaning "I don't have the slightest clue so I'm going to just use a bunch of big words and hope you believe me."

I don't know about that... the forecast for my area is usually spot on even if it's for a day that's 7 days from now.

I don't check the temperature, so I'm not sure if that is usually correct, but if it tells me that it will rain 6 days from now... it rains 6 days from now. I never have noticed a weather that was anything different from the forecast.

So you can imaging that I fill differently from Don2007 and kc0tma about meteorologist. I guess this area actually has real meteorologists rather then wanna-be meteorologists.