BS: British Weather

Subject: BS: British Weather
From: GUEST,JHW
Date: 23 Aug 15 - 04:24 AM

We'll not be getting British Weather on the BBC anymore, the Met Office have lost the contract!

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Aug 15 - 04:34 AM

Rather odd. It seems from BBC reports that they have decided not to renew the contract and continue broadcasting the weather but not who will be replacing them.

I could understand if it was simply moving to tender and the Met Office were allowed to bid alongside anyone else but this sounds like they have been excluded from tendering.

I suspect poor reporting actually, and it is an open tender.

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 23 Aug 15 - 04:37 AM

So the BBC will get the forecast 2nd hand?

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Aug 15 - 05:20 AM

Does this explain the terrible weather in Cornwall this summer?

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 23 Aug 15 - 05:50 AM

They say they are looking at a Dutch and a New Zealand service.

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 23 Aug 15 - 07:17 AM

Gosh. Does this mean I am going to have to look out of the window instead?

Interestingly, and out of pure boredom, I have BBC, a separate Met Office, Yahoo, Apple and Fizz weather apps on my phone and iPad. As of this month, I travel a bit daily, and mainly to places fifty or so miles west of here.

I find Fizz to be about the most accurate, although the nearest place to here it recognises is a town five miles away.

The BBC app drenched my sheets last weekend.....

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Aug 15 - 10:17 AM

There are several online sources for weather

http://internationalweather.com/local/gb.html

http://www.accuweather.com/en/world-weather

I use on my PC a couple of programs

Weather Watcher which, although seeming to give examples from the US, does have access to maps from all over the world.

and Weather Mate

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: GUEST,DaveRo
Date: 23 Aug 15 - 02:35 PM

I read the BBC's statement this morning - "We have a legal duty to go out to tender and take the lowest bid" - as an invitation to the government (or more likely MPs, and public opinion) to intervene. I bet the BBC would rather they used the MO. Otherwise we'll have dolly birds in high heels and lipgloss presentling the forecast like on TV5 Monde.

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: GUEST,Modette
Date: 23 Aug 15 - 03:36 PM

Pity there's not a sexism forecast, DaveRo, as I suspect you'd be made aware of golden showers.

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: GUEST,Kampervan
Date: 23 Aug 15 - 04:30 PM

I tend to find the BBC/met office get it dead right when they summarise yesterday's weather, apart from that, to find out what is happening at the moment I look out of the window, and for anything further down the line, I just hope for the best.

Seems to work for me.

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: GUEST,Padre
Date: 23 Aug 15 - 09:43 PM

Ah, lovely Devon
Where it rains eight days out of seven

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Aug 15 - 09:52 PM

So, will you pay me megabucks to tell you what the British weather is?

No? Well, I'll tell you anyway - it's grey.

But I like Britain anyhow, especially Scotland.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: GUEST,Kampervan
Date: 24 Aug 15 - 02:56 AM

Todays
BBC online forecast for Whitstable, Kent says 'A dry start, with some sun, rain arriving around 1pm.'

Looking out of the window I see nothing but clouds and torrential rain falling vertically. Hmmmm, someone got it wrong!

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Aug 15 - 03:42 AM

New Zealand weather might be better?

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: Stu
Date: 24 Aug 15 - 04:12 AM

Joking aside, this is important. Lives depend on the BBC/Met Office weather forecasts and just getting in someone with no expertise in the unique weather of a group of north-eastern Atlantic Islands seems insane.

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 24 Aug 15 - 05:30 AM

The big issue here is... how will this affect The Shipping Forecast??

This most solemn litany is the single most important institution we have; it is integral to our island soul and without it, I fear, all is lost!

Alan Bennett reads the Shipping Forecast

And whilst we're on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7HhT0ElyZk

Subject: RE: BS: British Weather
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Aug 15 - 07:39 AM

They could always get Piers Corbyn, Jeremy's brother, who was at Imperial College at the same time as me and Brian May (excuse the reflected glory), to do the weather forecast. He's been selling weather predictions, made using, er, unusual methods, through his WeatherAction company for 20 years. Like the Met Office's efforts, a few of his predictions are not completely wrong.