Via Watts Up With That? comes an article in the Times about the Met office possibly losing its BBC contract to do weather forecasts.
John Hirst, the chief executive of the Met Office, insisted last week that recent forecasts had been “very good” and blamed the public for not heeding snow warnings.
But it is the long term forecasts that are the problem. Can there be a connection between the Met Office’s (climate change blinded?) long term forecasts of a mild winter, and grit shortages?
Or perhaps it isn’t just long term forecasts.
Barry Grommet, a Met Office forecaster, said: “We put our hands up and concede that we did not expect the snow to spread so far east, and with the intensity that it did.”