The BBC bullied me into using their weather app. But it is always wrong.
Ok, they didn’t actually bully me. They made it look oh so lovely and scrummy on their extensive adverts for it on their TV channels, so I immediately downloaded it.
And, yes, it’s very pretty.
But. It’s always wrong. I don’t think it’s the app. It’s the BBC Weather forecasting feeding the app.
For example it’s been saying thunderstorms for days now. The hour by hour prediction is always heavy thunderstorms. Except they change to just being sunny just before we get to them. So thunder storm hours are always 4 to 6 hours away. The prediction 4 hours from now, 2200, is thunderstorms. In about an hour from now the prediction for 2200 will miraculously swap to sunny. This is stupid. I could predict the weather more accurately with a throw of dice.
If I look right now at all day tomorrow, hour by hour it’ll be thunderstorms, hail, locusts, frogs, and floods. In reality when we get to tomorrow none of this will actually happen. And, when we get to tomorrow the hour by hour collection of doom and gloom will have swapped to sunny, or slightly cloudy, which will come true.
My only conclusion is that despite the app supposedly giving me hour by hour predictions for today and the next four days, it can’t actually predict anything beyond about 4 to 6 hours from now. This is seriously bad. How much does the BBC Weather department cost us? Why can’t it actually forecast the weather?
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