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Met Office uses backyard homemade weather station
The UK Met Office has a £30million this is supposed to improve weather forecasting. But, they are instead relying on someone who collates rainfall, temperature and humidity readings from a homemade weather station in his garden in Tavistock, Devon. Link: here.
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I find this hard to believe.
Tavistock is to the south west of the UK and most of the weather comes from that direction, if they had a good amateur observer there the forecasts would be much more accurate than they are!
Heard utteered by the head forcaster at The Met…..”drizzle…drazzle….fizzle….fee…..what’s the weather going to be?”
What people don’t realise is the £30million computer then takes Keith Davis’s amateur weather station data and homogenize it through very sophisticated data modelling to produce warming results. With this information they can predict BBQ summers and mild winters.
You mean like they predicted this would be a mild winter?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6921281/Britain-facing-one-of-the-coldest-winters-in-100-years-experts-predict.html
I fully support the Met office accepting readings from amateur weather stations which are real-world measurements as good as any other. The paragraph on “A COMPUTER that cost £30million was supposed to improve weather forecasting at the Met Office,” is rather irrelevant here because the biggest computer in the world does not take any real world measurements for you. Every computer needs input data, which must come from somewhere.
Indeed, a network of amateur stations sitting in private hands is more difficult to fiddle with, and thus far more reliable than a large government network that are all operated by a small number of people. In any network there will be errors, but hopefully these will average out.