The Beeb really cocked todays forecast up , was supposed to a poor day, ended up rather pleasant

Originally Posted by: doctormog 

At least they are consistent here. Today was yet again 3 degrees warmer than their forecast.

Originally Posted by: Gooner 

More of the same tomorrow.... "Pretending rain"

Doesn't get to be called The Daily Excess for nothing and that rag is in fine form at the moment . . . http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/480038/Shock-UK-weather-warning-Tornadoes-hail-thunderstorms-and-lightning-to-ravage-Britain

"Worst HAILSTORM in 170 years " . . . "leaving craters five feet deep".

Really?   

Utter bollox - WTF are these people on?

There could be some thundery weather this weekend and there are always attendant risks of hail and stuff but this is yet another disgraceful piece of scaremongering

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/480038/Shock-UK-weather-warning-Tornadoes-hail-thunderstorms-and-lightning-to-ravage-Britain

Oh 

Watch out for cricket ball size hail and 5 feet deep craters this weekend says the UK's most reliable and down to earth weather forecasting journal

Oh darn - someone already posted this.  I know you can call it scare mongering - but I don't think anyone believes these silly stories in the express any more - just treat them as a bit of fun or it'll drive you mad.  I feel for the serious forecasters though who get a bad name from crud like this.

"There is also a risk of severe tornadoes which are whipped up when two weather fronts battle it out, as we are expecting"

Aww, bless. I fear neither Jonathan Powell, Nathan Rao or any of their so-called 'experts' had any meaningful education or indeed have any meaningful brain to speak of.

So here in the SE we were told to expect rain from 5am today until 5am on Thursday. I woke up. here in Chelmsford to bright dry weather. I bit of rain, around 930, now dry anmd not too cool. Someone is wrong.................again!

Same here. Rain radar shows the pulse of rain forecast for C Southern and E parts of England is about 150 miles further west, affecting Devon and South Wales and now moving up into the Midlands. 

A shift of 150 miles may not be big in a meteorologist's mind if the synoptic pattern is much the same, but it makes a lot of difference on the ground!

Yes the rain area was further west than forecast but carol kirkwood was on breakfast babbling on about how more accurate forecasts were than 70 years ago on the d day landings. yeah right.

According to the latest MetO forecast (and all previous ones I've seen) for the S Midlands: "Cloud and rain will gradually clear north-eastwards overnight " - in fact, as has been obvious all afternoon, it's clearing slowly southeastwards.

And I dont think any forecast (or even the gutter press) predicted today would be the wettest day here of 2014 (to date) with half a month's worth of rain falling?

Don't think the Mets did very well today for my back garden .....

I had a lurid nightmare vision last night - *****Corbyn (sounds like Nears Morebin) and Jonathan Powell created a child together, who went on to become the world's greatest weather forecaster. Nathan Rao was appointed his publicity agent.

I don't want to go through that experience again I can tell you

and the met office contunes to show not one single thunderstorm on it's forecasts, in condtradiction to the warnings!

So are there any survivors?

LOL - FFS!

Not again

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/481133/Get-ready-for-one-of-hottest-summers-ever

Only the Express could turn "near or above average temeratures" into "the hottest summer ever"

Who writes this Shiite.

Oh, and for those who haven't seen it yet, this is a very good read

Weather wars at the Met Office: Is it going to be a 'barbecue summer' this year?

New- style MetO webpage

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/gcp3nqsgd#?tab=fiveDay&fcTime=1402527600

Plus: you can see the whole day at a glance as it's now displayed across the page

Minus: more difficult to find the (more interesting IMO) maps and  charts - very much  text and ideograph based which shows, I suppose, ehat the MetO and its web designers think of the educational level of the great Britsh public.