AIBU to think that if I heed a weather warning and stay at home, unpaid that the weather forecast should be accurate

[NotSuchASmugMarriedNow1]

I heeded the advice. It said it would snow heavily from 10am and to stay home. If I don't work I don't get paid. I stayed home. It hasn't snowed. I haven't been paid. I could easily have got to work and back.

Why the fuck do they do that?

Well I don't think they do it on purpose...

Because the weather forecast isn't ever going to be 100% accurate. It's a bugger for you but there really isn't anyone to blame.

i'm pretty sure they have done it on purpose

Is this a joke?

Not a joke no. I'm annoyed I've lost money due to inaccurate weather reporting

Didn;t you think to maybe look at your window, see no snow and go to work?

Accurate weather forecasting is impossible.

It's not an exact science, it's all about modelling and tree diagrams (not a meterologist, don't know the proper term), but when they say 'it's going to snow' what they actually mean is that 'there is a 60% chance that there's going to be a lot of snow, somewhere around here, a 20% chance that there's going to be some snow, here or there, we think and a 20% chance that it's not going to snow at all, nearish to here). Location and amount is very much an estimate.

The snow this week has been very patchy. I went through a bit on the A1 the other day, where it was the worst blizzard, no visibility, laying on the motorway, and everywhere else outside a small spot, was clear without any snow and sunny.

tinkywinky2018 - That wasn't an option. My work involved travelling for 2 hours for a meeting that other people were attending and I had already had to make the decision to cancel the meeting and the other attendees, yesterday when the warning was made.

YANBU. Official complaint to the Met Office. When, oh when, will they be able to predict the future of natural events with 100% reliability?
Might be worth dropping a line to the Dept of Common Sense too - looking out of the window at 10am and seeing that it looked perfectly safe to travel really should have triggered a change of plan.

well then you should be happy its not as bad for you as it is for many other people, and count yourself very lucky.

I know I should. I'm still just gonna moan about it though

"Might be worth dropping a line to the Dept of Common Sense too - looking out of the window at 10am and seeing that it looked perfectly safe to travel really should have triggered a change of plan."

As previously mentioned, at 10am this morning it was too late to change the plans. The meeting started at 10 and many people would have had to travel down the night before, including me.

Well it's a forecast so you know, before the event. They're telling us what is expected based on the available information but they're not actually psychic. Jeez, they can only advise the public generally on keeping safe. How exactly are they to factor in what you personally could or couldn't have done by now?

But if it had snowed you still wouldn't have got paid.

I'd have weighed it up this morning and made a call then.

HarrietKettle please read the full thread

I DOUBT there is anywhere in the country that travelling for two hours today is wise.

Looking out my window the roads look drivable. I’m near a busy A road that’s well cleared blah blah. My friend just send me a photo, they have a good bit of snow and it’s snowing hard. The live less than two miles away.

Have you seen the news?

Ah, chalk it up to experience, watch some rubbish TV with a packet of chocolate biscuits. You're home anyway, might as well enjoy it.

Have a look at the Weather section on Mumsnet for a better understanding of how forecasts work. The current weather thread pops up a lot in Active Conversations.
YABU to expect 100% (or near) accuracy. Can't be done.

Meteorologists and anyone who works in the weather industry are only
human. What do you want them to
do? They can only make predictions.

I get that you are annoyed but there's nothing you can do about it now. Just leave it and have a chilled day off.

I expect all those idiots sat on motorways overnight in their cars just thought 'it's not so bad, I'll ignore the warnings' (there was a Kiwi guy with a baby in a car that was on the news yesterday - proclaiming loudly that it was 'pathetic' he wasn't getting enough help. No suggestion of taking responsibility for the fact he was the numpty sat in a stuck car on a motorway with a baby having made the decision himself to ignore the advice!).

You could have gone to the meeting, it snowed like crazy and you or the other attendees get stuck there. We had no snow at 10am yesterday, by 2pm there was about 6 inches, a foot or so where it has drifted. By 2pm it would have been dangerous to drive or walk along the side of the road where people clearly don't know how to drive in snow and are putting their own and others lives at risk - including the kids who are out and about.

It is a prediction not an exact science, just be happy and enjoy your time off!

Didn;t you think to maybe look at your window, see no snow and go to work?

I’d guess that a lot of people who got stuck down here overnight did exactly that. Looking perfectly safe to travel doesn’t mean that it’s going to stay that way or that your whole route is OK. It came down very very quickly here yesterday afternoon.

I don't think having to cancel a meeting 2 hours away that involved other people travelling is the same thing as having to stay home. Surely you could have done something else?

Where were the other attending the meeting going to be coming from?

Because there's a 'do not travel' warning from police for much of the country, and a lot of disruption on public transport, and snow still falling (even if not on you).

You may be able to make up the lost working hours in the coming weeks?