Met Office forecast was ‘not helpful’

The Met Office has admitted issuing advice to government that was "not helpful" during last year's remarkable switch in weather patterns.

Between March and April 2012, the UK experienced an extraordinary shift from high pressure and drought to low pressure and downpours.

But the Met Office said the forecast for average rainfall "slightly" favoured drier than average conditions.

The three-month forecast is said to be experimental.

It is sent to contingency planners but has been withheld from the public since the Met Office was pilloried for its "barbecue summer" forecast in 2009.   

Quick question when has Met Office advice ever been helpful?

Now they’re basically admitting they don’t know and just use experimental guess work to predict what’s going to happen, tell us something we don’t already know.

Being a meteorologist must be the easiest job in the world, you spend all day making predictions that turn out to be wrong, and then come in the next day and do it all over again!

If you watch any weather report all they know is high pressure, low pressure that’s it. Everything else what temperature it’ll be, what the wind will be like, whether it’s going to rain, they’ve no idea, you might as well make your own weather forecast it’ll be just as, if not more, accurate.