You will need a brolly on holiday in the UK in August - the Met Office is issuing a revised forecast for more unsettled weather well into the month.
It is a far cry from the "barbecue summer" it predicted back in April. The news will raise questions about the Met Office's ability to make reliable seasonal forecasts. But the organisation has defended its record, saying people have already forgotten the hot weather experienced across many parts of Britain in June.
Seasonal forecasting is a difficult thing to do and this places some limitations on our forecasts
We agree with that quote, ANYBODY who thinks CO2 drives climate will NOT be able to make a weather forecast over a few days, the MET OFFICE have failed again and they use a £34 Million super computer! Piers Corbyn uses a £50 scientific casio and gets it right!!!!!
Updated below by the MET OFFICE
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But the independent weather forecaster Piers Corbyn says the Met Office failed to make a correct forecast because it cannot predict the jet stream.
He claims his solar-based forecasting method is consistently more accurate for medium-term predictions than the Met Office, and he urges them to give up medium-term forecasting.
The Met Office complains in response that Mr Corbyn will not publish his "unique" methods of forecasting.
For the record, Mr Corbyn predicts that August will be generally wet and cool, especially in the West and the North later.
Why would the fact that Piers Corbyn not publish his work STOP the MET OFFICE using HIS forecast for the past 25 years? You'd have thought the MET OFFICE would have at least listened to what he had to say concerning how the SUN changes our climate from the Solar Wind when so much is at stake.
The truth is the MET OFFICE closed the door on PIERS CORBYN as he said CO2 does NOT drive temperature, no other reason then he did not agree with "Man Made Climate Change"
The MET OFFICE have more egg on their face and still the public are told a lie concerning the so called "power of CO2" when it IS the gas of LIFE not death!!!
The MET OFFICE need to be held to account on why they can't forecast beyond a few days NOT Piers Corbyn. They will not do that, as they will have to climb down on all they have said about CO2, and then they would also have to agree with Piers Corbyn, and they can't do that as Piers does not agree with "Man Made Climate Change".
What we need is a "New Climate Change Investigation", the current one from the UN/IPCC appears to be CORRUPT!!!!!!
GAMES UP MET OFFICE, COME CLEAN ABOUT WHY YOU FAIL, AND WHY PIERS CORBYN KEEPS GETTING HIS FORECAST RIGHT!!!!!
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Updated by the MET OFFICE
Statement on summer forecast 2009
The media spotlight has been on our summer forecast this month, following a period of wet weather.
In April our seasonal forecast for the summer (June, July and August) stated that there was a 65% probability of a warmer-than-average and near- or drier-than-average summer. Our news release stated: “The coming summer is ‘odds on for a barbecue summer’…
“Although the forecast is for a drier and warmer summer than average it does not rule out the chances of seeing some heavy downpours at times. However, a repeat of the wet summers of 2007 and 2008 is unlikely.”
We acknowledge that the weather we have seen through the last month has been disappointing, especially after the fine weather through June and the heatwave at the end of June and beginning of July.
At no time did the Met Office state that Summer 2009 would be hot and dry throughout or forecast a ‘scorcher’.
Some facts:
Many areas of the UK had a heatwave at the end of June.
The hottest temperatures since the record-breaking month of July 2006, have already been recorded the summer. Many locations reached or exceeded 30 °C, with Wisley, Surrey recording the highest temperature of 31.8 °C.
The first half of this summer has not been as wet as 2007 and 2008. June had 87% of the average rainfall.
The Wimbledon tennis championships were virtually rain-free, providing the best weather at the tournament since 1995. The Glastonbury Festival was also mostly dry, the Ashes Test Matches and the Open golf all saw largely dry and sunny conditions.
July, so far, has seen warmer-than-average temperatures and above average rainfall in some areas.
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