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Old 27th Oct 2004, 11:57
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proplover
 
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Ive suffered at the hands of the met forcasters all to often. The 3 day forcasts arent worth the paper there written on, with even the next days forcasting efforts being all to offten very wide of being even 90% accurate. Learnt never to scrub a flight the day before as all to often ended up looking at perfectly good flying weather after the forcast was for doom and gloom.

Its about time the met were taken to task re the accuracy of the forcasts as many event organisers and holiday locations depend on the public turning up and if the forcast is for bad\poor weather then people will stay at home.

Just for this year I recon that the 3 day forcast is only 25% correct, the next day only 75%, youd think with all the £m's poured into the met they could manage a better hit rate - good job this lot arent forcasting the D-Day weather, we'ed still be waiting on the south coast.
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