I’ve just written 600 words about why world politics stink and why I should stop watching the news. I’m not stupid enough to publish it as this is not a serious blog, but I’ve got it out of my system and feel able to start blogging properly again.
Offer me the right money and I will write anything you want. With this sort of cash behind me I won’t mind becoming embroiled in political arguments.
Boots in the snow
Meanwhile, I have snow to worry about. The weather forecast promised me several frost-free days with no need to cover my car windscreen overnight. This is good, as I haven’t liked our frosty mornings recently – it’s a nuisance to defrost the car and our road, rarely seeing sun in the winter, tends to polish up like a skating rink in frosty conditions.
At three this morning, up and about and heading to the bathroom, I noticed that the night seemed quiet and the world seemed rather light. Peering round the bathroom blind i found, to my surprise, that it had snowed. The day has failed to provide the promised temperatures above freezing and everything is much the same as it was at 3am.
Magpie in the snow
The weather forecasting in this country really is getting worse, and it isn’t because of lack of funding or government ineptitude, it’s because we have so many people doing it – the BBC for instance, recently moved away from using the Met Office and uses a private company. Bad move, I reckon. We are moving away from science into opinion. The BBC saves several million to make TV, but that goes nowhere when you see the costs, and I end up badly misinformed about the weather. I don’t expect much from politicians, but it feels really bad to be let down by the BBC.
Snow in Sherwood – though not much
As you can tell from the comments, our own lives are more attractive topics than world politics
I much prefer your life to world politics. Particularly the pie element.
🙂
No snow here yet this season, but lots of rain and flood warnings north of here up around Portland and along the Columbia Gorge. I am watching a field several house down become a pond. This is the kind of weather where one keeps an eye out for trees uprooting and falling across roads.
Yes, I am not looking to the thaw tomorrow as we already have plenty in the rivers. Good luck with your weather.
You can still find the met office forecast that the BBC abandoned. I look at them both and choose whichever one offers me the better weather.
I will look for it. I trust the Met Office and if the report does not match the weather I tend to believe that it is the fault of the weather. All others are simply poor versions of the Met Office.
They are partly the victims of their own success and are producing forecasts that are much more detailed than they used to be. The idea that you can accurately forecast the weather every hour in Langholm every day is a bit presumptuous. Also as the climate heats up, their computer mode;ls must need endlessly revising.
Agreed, it probably just a small shift in the wind that brought us snow, but Julia’s weather app noted the likelihood of snow, our local BBC forecast told me there wou8ld be no need to cover my windscreen for the next three days.
I don’t think any weather broadcasting media has a window to look out of.
A window would definitely help. My grandfather used to have a bundle of seaweed by his back door. He used to tell me he would reach out to it in a morning and if his arm got wet it was raining. Of course, he lived in the North West – it normally rained.
Still – he had a window!!
Don’t want to boast, but I come from a family that has several windows. 🙂
So, your family knew the weather much better than the media!
It would seem so. 🙂