hedging the weather
barcamplondon featured weather averaging for four major suppliers.
I queried the sense of this given the BBC's approach...
for instance today in London the (day) forecast is "light rain shower"
that's half the rays of sun, plus a dark cloud with one rain drop.
already pretty vague you might surmise...
However when you switch to the 24 hour forecast the 3 hourly forecast
throughout the day is "Sunny" throughout the day, with clear morning
and evening.
given the vast expense of weather forecasting, this cannot be said to
qualify as science, it doesn't even pretend to scientism or
scientistic tendencies, more like pure guesswork of a pretty vague
and less than helpful sort?
cheers
Jonathan Chetwynd
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