> -----Original Message----- > From: Gordon Joly > (Ignore that fact that temperatures forecast may differ by as much as > 5 degrees C:-)
Reminds me of an old idea... Weather from Yahoo, BBC, Met Office all regularly seem to differ quite widely, based purely on personal subjective checking. So... * Poll sites on a regular basis and log, * add "after the fact" data on what it actually turned out to be * build stats on accuracy obviously hard to do nationally, but I keep meaning to do it for my local area. And/or build a site that allows people to log actual results for their area. Thinking about it, with all the physical weather stations, it ought to be possible to automate even that part (logging actual measured weather, vs 5 day forecast) Maybe someone already has... either way, all seems rather strange given that I assume all the data comes from the met office originally. Or maybe yahoo get it from weather.com or some such... Anyway ... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
