Met Office loses BBC weather forecasting contract

[Rob Holmes]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34031785

 

[B&B Pig Man]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34031785

How strange!!
I've always found the met/BBC forecasts to be the most reliable.

 

[Rob Holmes]

Maybe its not the quality, the beeb might think they can get the info cheaper elsewhere

(is @Simon Keeling going to tender?)

 

[llamedos]

So if at the end of the new forecasts we hear the familiar "keep the sun shining" @Simon Keeling

 

[cotswoldcs]

I'm alarmed and disappointed about this. Much as us farmers tend to bemoan weather forecasts I honestly think the Met Office does a great job of predicting the weather. It looks like the BBC have (or will) opted for a cheaper option which is likely to be inferior.

One of the major advancements as far as I am concerned is the fact that the forecast now changes or updates every hour (or so it seems). This allow me as a humble farmer to predict and forecast what might happen. This wealth of data is so much more reliable than sitting transifxed in silence in front of the telly watching the weather in anticipation; knowing that it will be hours before the next one

 

[bobk]

I've heard @METJEFFUK has got the contract ... should be entertaining

 

[RobFZS]

2/ 3 years ago bbc weather was always spot on, to the hour

now it will say it's bright sunshine whilst it's pissing down outside

 

[Simon Keeling]

Only got themselves to blame (UKMO), much I could say but won't.

Probably won't notice much change in accuracy as could still use met office data bought through the new supplier.

Feel sorry for those whose jobs put at risk.

Wonder if upper tiers of met office will shoulder any blame on their £250k per annum of tax payers money? Doubt it! Nests have already been feathered!

Simon

 

[B&B Pig Man]

I've heard @Metsaman has got the contract ... should be entertaining

Did you mean to tag @METJEFFUK there?!

 

[Clive]

why do they need a cotract with anyone ? they can just google the weather for free like the rest of us and then present it surely ?

its hardly a secret or privileged information !

 

[bobk]

Did you mean to tag @METJEFFUK there?!

Yes , can you change it please , I'm off to specsavers.

 

[Grassman]

I think the BBC has to put things out to tender nowadays so I guess someone has done it cheaper!

http://www.dailyedge.ie/windy-gifs-901102-May2013/

 

[Boysground]

If they bought all the presenters some seaweed and a pine cone it would be cheaper and no less accurate than some of the recent forcasts for here.

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[Wombat]

why do they need a cotract with anyone ? they can just google the weather for free like the rest of us and then present it surely ?

its hardly a secret or privileged information !

Couldn't be any less accurate

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

"Here's the forecast for today , @YorkshireAndrew has gone combining so rain is forecast this afternoon" [emoji6]

 

[Boysground]

I wonder what the bbc pay the met office. I assume bbc was one of the biggest customers perhaps mod and airports pay more. It will be a big drop in income and it may limit investment to improve the service.

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[llamedos]

"Here's the forecast for today , @YorkshireAndrew has gone combining so rain is forecast this afternoon" [emoji6]

That is all the country needs really, a succession of farmers country wide, from its foggy in J'o'G to its persisting down in Lands End, just text in in to the beeb every couple of hours and charge them an obscene amount of money Job sorted

 

[Boysground]

"Here's the forecast for today , @YorkshireAndrew has gone combining so rain is forecast this afternoon" [emoji6]

So there is a blue sky or you would be saying " stopped by lunchtime "

Perhaps you are better than the met office

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[B&B Pig Man]

That is all the country needs really, a succession of farmers country wide, from its foggy in J'o'G to its persisting down in Lands End, just text in in to the beeb every couple of hours and charge them an obscene amount of money Job sorted

'and now it's time for the BBC weather forecast in association with the farmers of TFF'

 

[Clive]

It's a government supported quango so the information is surely public property anyway ? why were the BBC paying in the first place for it ?