{"id":9060,"date":"2012-05-26T13:49:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T13:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9060"},"modified":"2012-05-26T13:49:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T13:49:01","slug":"and-on-the-subject-of-weather-forecasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9060","title":{"rendered":"And On The Subject Of Weather Forecasting\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/271;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; float: left\" title=\"Wet Seaweed for weather forecasting?\" alt=\"Wet Seaweed for weather forecasting?\" align=\"left\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wet_seaweed.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"271\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>I\u2019d forgotten this, but last June someone was <a title=\"Worst Winter On Record\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><font color=\"#800000\">predicting the \u201cworst winter on record\u201d for 2011\/12<\/font><\/a>. I poo-pooed it as bunkum, simply because <strong>no one<\/strong> can predict the weather properly. If the Met Office, with its array of supercomputers can\u2019t do it, a bunch of geeky old guys with seaweed and distorted egos certainly can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>My opinions upset a few people. I was getting what amounted to hate mail from people defending Exacta &#8211; the organisation behind the original forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Well, all you have to do is look at the <font color=\"#800000\">official statistics<\/font> for last winter.<\/p>\n<p>December, January, and February temperatures were all well above their respective means, and the whole winter was a mean 4.5\u00b0C warmer than the previous three winters, and nearly 1\u00b0C warmer than the mean 1971-2000 figure . There was a <strong>two-week<\/strong> cold snap at the end of January. Rainfall was 99% of the 1971-2000 average, and sunshine was 113% of the average. It was classed as a <strong>mild winter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, I rest my case. The story from last June was nonsensical scaremongering, fed by alchemy and pseudo-science.<\/p>\n<p>Winter 2011\/12 was <strong>NOT<\/strong> the coldest on record. Not by a million pieces of wet seaweed! Just like <em><strong>I<\/strong><\/em> predicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d forgotten this, but last June someone was predicting the \u201cworst winter on record\u201d for 2011\/12. I poo-pooed it as bunkum, simply because no one can predict the weather properly. If the Met Office, with its array of supercomputers can\u2019t do it, a bunch of geeky old guys with seaweed and distorted egos certainly can\u2019t. 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