Re-entering the blogosphere: And the winning degrees are ...

This is not about online trade of "distiguished [sic] university degrees" arriving in your inbox - or about National Lottery either.

This is about something much more serious. The weather. When that and the British Broadcasting Corporation - more accurately its website - mix, it's starting to make my mood rather cloudy.

Let me explain, to pinpoint you the culprit. It is (and the photo here, top right) here

Ok, It all looks well and good. But what it predicts is complete nonsense, too much of the time.

Especially so, when it comes down to snow.

Snow is something i should know about, after all, as I come from Finland. I literally came from there just three days ago and in the end I had certainly had enough of it, the white stuff.

In the past few days The Beeb has promised snow to Tulse Hill in the form of heavy snow showers, light snow showers, sleet - you name it. No problem with that, except I am yet to see a single snow flake come down.

Ok, as my minicab driver from work said the other night, weather forecasting in this country is all about "short skirts" as the weather - out of necessity apparently. Reason being the weather here is so unpredictable ("not one place in this country is further than 76 miles from sea")

This does not explain though, why yesterday the prediction for Friday was "heavy snow" but the temperature minimum was +6C at the same time. According to my school physics and experience of living in a country where it snows rather a lot in the wintertime, this is not realistic, i would be tempted to say even possible.

At +6C the rain tends to come down as water - even sleet would be a surprise at so many degrees above zero. And sure enough, some hours later the BBC forecast had the minimum temperature as +3C and promised "sleet".

Conclusion: those weather forecasts are ... rather imaginative. And unfortunately for the Beeb, this evidence from their website won't probably remain unique. Anyone for giving physics lessons to Beeb meteorologs?

Rant ranted, any counter arguments?