Weather forecasting

[Yulephemia]

Am I being unreasonable in expecting weather forecasts to be a bit more similar? Especially from the same provider?

For example, on the BBC weather pages on TV the 5-day forecast maps rarely tally with what the weather forecaster has just shown you on the video forecast.

Likewise, on the BBC website the 5-day forecast doesn't tally with either the video one, or the map forecast at the bottom of the webpage.

Yahoo on my iPhone shows something different. Metcheck is different again.

The new Scottish Transport Minister is determined there won't be another foul-up with the bad weather this week, to the extent that he's spending tonight in the Scottish Travel Centre to oversee what's going on on the roads. I can't figure out whether it's actually going to snow tonight/tomorrow, so what chance does he have of making plans?

YANBU.

For my area, Metcheck are usually fairly reliable, and they regularly update.
Some websites seem to set the weather for the next week or so, and leave it at that.

I go by OhYouSnowySnowyKitten's forecasts. Much more reliable

It's only a forecast though it's not set in stone
I don't get why people get so het up about the weather in this country

It's a forecast which is a prediction basically. There are many different weather "models" to look at and interpret and some places use one over the other, some use all.
Snow needs many variables to actually appear and predicting those accurately is tricky (as i learned from OYBBK)
For an accurate weather forecast - look out of the window

YANBU. This drives me mad too!

Oh YANBU at all. I watched the BBC national forecast followed by the BBC local forecast last week and there was a temperature difference of about 5 degrees.

I have a terrible vision of being snowbound again with no dinner for Xmas. Argh.

Agree with what DanceInTheDark said. Therefore how is it that our Transport Minister was hounded out of office last week because people decided to go out in the snow and got stuck? I was on the road for six and a half hours last Monday trying to drive the 30 miles to work - my stupidity for choosing to keep going when I saw that there was a sudden and heavy snowfall and I can't blame any politician for that. I also had access to the BBC's weather reports and they did not so much at hint at the severity of what we actually saw. I should know better than to trust the BBC (especially in Scotland where they constantly resort to distorted reporting and outright lies).

I have the MET Office app on my phone but still don't find it very accurate. Particularly living in Scotland I know always to take a rain coat, even if it is sunny outside, and to have spare clothes in the car 'just in case' throughout winter. My poor husband moved up from the South East of England nine years ago and still can't get it into his head how cold it can get up here or how quick the weather can turn. I sometimes carry a waterproof or gloves for him in my bag but he's going to have to fend for himself once my bag is full of baby things. oh dear ....

I'm trying to plan in the event of DD's school being closed again - last week teachers (inc. me) had to go in to school although it was closed to pupils. In that scenario I need to arrange childcare.

It's not getting het up about weather - it's basic common sense.