When I added the BBC Weather's RSS feed into this blog page I didn't realise just how inaccurate our weather forecasting here in Britain actually is. It's supposed to show the weather for the current day and the forecast for the next two days for the Manchester area, including Salford.
Yesterday it showed +3c for the daytime temperature, in fact it was around 0c at its peak, and for last night it showed -1c, whereas in fact it was -2c in the early evening and by midnight it was -6c and still going down (now that's cold! Especially for Britain!). Surely they can get more accurate than that!
However, maybe my expectations are too high? Despite all these high-tec computerised thingumy whatsits available these days to the BBC, us 'old timers' still prefer to rely on our tried and trusted bunch of seaweed and pine cones hanging outside the front porch. Actually no, they're not quite as reliable as we'd like to think - but with a bit of past experience and imaginative waffling we're not too far off! And usually a lot closer than the BBC!
Perhaps the BBC might do better scrapping that expensive computer system, and replace it with a bunch of seaweed and a few pine cones. We, the TV License paying public, would probably then receive an improved weather forecasting service!
Ouch!
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