I can see it now - a site for appraising weather forecasts: IsItHotOrNot.com
On 11/7/05, Mark Simpkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about a 'Rate this weather' option? Just grade how accurate you > thought the weather forcast was for your area. > > Mark. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murray Walker > Sent: 07 November 2005 13:05 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] iMP: accessibility, is the smell really that > bad? > > > > -----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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > - > 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
