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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:58 pm Post Subject: NZers pass judgement on Weather Forecasters
"I can say with some confidence that I would have been better disembowelling a chicken and reading the weather forecast in its innards than listening to the Metservice. Thanks a bunch." Don Kavanagh (NZ Herald 'Your Views')
"We have long passed the stage where we accept the weather report. Mostly we get exactly opposite of what is forecast. Very poor service." Ron Hawker (NZ Herald 'Your Views')
"Weather forecasting could be one of the only jobs where you can be wrong a lot of the time and still keep your job!" Philip (NZ Herald 'Your Views')
"The weather forecasters couldn't even get the forecasts accurate a week out from our Easter holidays. Why on Earth should we believe them when they claim that sea levels will rise by between 19cm and 59cm by the end of this century?" Tony (NZ Herald 'Your Views')
"How can we believe what they say about global worming [sic] if they can't predict the weather." Frank (NZ Herald 'Your Views')
"Ken Ring gets it right most days - and his predictions are 365 and more days ahead!" Keith (NZ Herald 'Your Views')
Metservice's Bob McDavitt was defending his Easter Weekend forecast on the front page of the NZ Herald this week, after people up and down the country had prepared to batten down the hatches, only to be greeted with a late summer encore.
Weather forecasting is a hotly debated topic in this country. This Mysterious NZ forum topic about the seeming inaccuracies of forecasting in New Zealand even attracted quite a bit of attention from the Ministry for the Environment back in 2005. It would appear that in the wake of the current media frenzy on the subject of climate change following the latest release by the IPCC many New Zealanders are thinking for themselves and are skeptical about the predictive accuracy of the models being used to give motive power to the idea of man-made global warming.
