Hope you don't mind me posting this, but I was told that I was accused of fabricating an email reply from the Met Office on a thread on Netweather and a poster (PaulB?) was saying that he had a source that said the Met O used old model data to produce their daily 6 to 15 day outlook. Here's is the reply I received from the Met Office today at 1.19pm this afternoon. I suggest Paul B emails the Met Office directly, rather than rely on a "source" Thank you for your enquiry. Please see a response from one of my forecasting collegues: "The 6 to 15 day forecast issued at around 1130 each day, and is based on the 00Z model runs and ensembles. It is produced by one person, but they do consult our Chief Forecaster and Medium Range Forecaster before they are issued, so there is some team work involved. I am not sure where people have got the idea that we use the 12Z runs, as they are out of date by that time. It may be that many of the internet forums only look at GFS, as that goes out to 14 days, and they may see that we are slow to follow to that model, but we look at much more information and need to take a balanced view. I hope this helps, and thank you for taking the time to contact the Met Office." Kind Regards TaraWeather Desk Advisor Met Office, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB, United Kingdom. Tel: 0870 900 0100 or +44 (0)1392 88 5680 Fax: 0870 900 5050 Email: enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk http://www.metoffice.gov.uk Met Office Hadley Centre - No 1 in the world in the THES review of geosciences research centres <BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"> Your personal details will be stored in our database. The information will not be passed to any third parties. Please advise us if you do not wish your details to be stored. The Met Office is an Executive Agency of the UK Ministry of Defence and is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998.
