Ian Docwra

I have to agree. Leaving aside the actual forecast accuracy, the BBC's on-line weather output is very frequently inconsistent on the same page (not to mention the far-too-frequent typos). I've lost count of the number of times the text summary for, in my case, London and SE England has said something like "freshening SW winds later tonight", but the hourly breakdown shows a SE light breeze throughout! The frequency of these inconsistencies with very short-term stuff simply doesn't inspire confidence in anything else. I think the BBC also tries to inject too much detail accuracy in, for instance, precipitation % chance - especially when the % chance for each hour doesn't tally with when they show the rain falling; e.g. 25% chance of rain with light cloud, then, in the next hour, 18% chance of rain (i.e. less likely) but with light rain shown. Only my second post and moaning already!

My first post on this site and I don't know whether its retrospectiveness is OK for this thread, but here in Surrey we had the fastest-accumulating snow for a long time on the 24th. Snow began falling at around 0950 and by 1115 or so it was 12cm deep. The night had been frosty (-3C) so the ground was frozen. The snow lay for three days, and the 25th was a rare cloudless snow day for Surrey - stunning conditions.