Wrong Forecasts??

[AmatuerMet1963]

I was looking foreword to the latter end of weekend to go out on my mobility scooter for some fresh but mild air in Wigan.  But something went wrong. The charts last Friday, showed a large swathe are of rain, wind and Mild 11-12% by Sunday night and Monday the 23rd Jan. But something went wrong, we had no rain, no mild breeze, it remained -3-7% figures at night and only 6%C today. 4%C Sunday 22nd. all the weather outlets were saying cold snap over. But only this morning Kay Burley was showing frosty frozen lakes from sky contributor photos. So, my question is why did the forecasts for Mild weather at the weekend go so wrong. with multimillion pound computers, it just goes to show, the old fashioned analogue way and natural pointers are far more accurate , and really computers should be phased out, and them only used to track main stormy or dangerous weather. it seems impossible for this technology to get anything right just lately.

[A Face like Thunder]

The forecast was for the milder weather to move in very slowly from Sunday onwards. This move seems to have been delayed even further, along with any precipitation, and we are only now just coming into the milder air, with the SE & Anglia still subject to the cold weather (Heathrow apparently had its coldest night last night since 1987). Quite why it has taken so long for the milder air to come through our Region, I do not know, but maybe it's got  something to do with the large area of high pressure to the East blocking its progress.