3 weeks later and still no reply to my query to the BBC about their consistently inaccurate temperature forecasts on their national TV overviews.
Yesterday they underestimated the high here by 4°C. (The official max was 21°, the forecast high was 17°)
Today's forecast just on had a high of 16°C for Aberdeen, the current temperature is 16°C. Will this be yet another woeful forecast?
It is so predictable and simply means that the forecasts are just a waste of time if you live here. Day after day, the exact same failing.
Perhaps I am being overly harsh and today it will actually max out at the temperature reached by 8:20am.
Would 19 or 20°C be more realistic for a forecast?
Edit: while I was writing this post the temperature (at 8:50am) increased to 17°C
Originally Posted by: Philip Prise
You're not Doc. I was up in Aberdeen for 3 weeks holiday between 26th June and 18th July. Everyday I was there the weather was better than the forecast given on the national BBC forecast, and friends and family had also noticed it, people are not stupid, we all know the set-up in early July is the kind where Aberdeen will easily get into the low/mid 20s day after day and that's exactly the kind of weather we had.
It simply isn't good enough, especially during the summer holidays when families are making decisions about how to spend their free time. Aberdeen has a fickle climate we all know that, it certainly has more extremes than the SE of England, but experienced knowlegable forecasters should be able to do better than default simply to 17C which seems to have been the forecast high there everyday this summer on the BBC.
Originally Posted by: doctormog