And I'm beginning to freeze, I've got icicles hanging from my knees

[venta]

Recently, a colleague who comes from a family of meteorologists has been explaining to me how the only reliable weather forecaster is the Met Office. People like the BBC lift their forecasts directly from the Met Office's predictions. Metcheck, he tells me, get their data from the Met Office, but use their own models and are unreliable.

I actually think Metcheck is more reliable than the the Met Office. On Sunday night, having seen the TV weather forecast, we hastily changed our plans and on Monday we fled south before the threatened snow arrived. The Met Office said snow, snow, snow. Metcheck said pshaw, just a bit of rain.

An sms from the mother this morning confirms that Metcheck was indeed correct. Bother.

Anyway, I'm ignoring meteorologicalTim for now and trusting Metcheck.

The forecast for our postcode on Wednesday is as follows:



In case that image-compression was too much, here's a closeup:



Eek. Time to panic-buy blankets.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I hadn't realised that. I'd just interpreted it as "red == extreme thing you need to notice", but I think you're probably right that the bit of code that does the colouring thinks it's very hot.