Ambiguous weather forecast areas

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Why is it that those, for example, in Cheshire hear weather warnings on the radio that make reference to "the North-West" glumly accept prognostications about oncoming spells of bad weather....then find out the oncoming weather actually affects the Outer Hebrides..

 

[Clip]

I wouldnt know the answer to that.

I do know your best source for weather reports would be the daily express though.

 

[michael769]

Why is it that those, for example, in Cheshire hear weather warnings on the radio that make reference to "the North-West" glumly accept prognostications about oncoming spells of bad weather....then find out the oncoming weather actually affects the Outer Hebrides..

Problem is that some weather presenters have a tenuous grip of geography.

At the weekend one BBC presented informed us that cloud cover would be confined to the "far North West of Scotland". behind her was a graphic showing cloud covering all of Scotland and also the North West of England and West Midlands....

Personally I'd not pay much heed to to radio forecasts they tend to be rushed and too vague to work out where the rain they mention will actually be falling.

 

[martinsh]

I don't mind them getting the forecast for tomorrow's weather wqrong - it's when they get yesterday's weather wrong that I get really annoyed !