Although we Kiwis we get frustrated when the weather doesn’t go quite according to plan, spare a thought for our British friends when just 3 months back they were told of a mild winter by the Met Office in the UK. This was one of the headlines before winter officially got under way…

The Met Office is  forecasting a milder than average winter, due to a freak weather system in the Pacific Ocean.

As we all know, that hasn’t quite rung true with severe cold and big snowfalls lasting weeks recently.

Some comments below some up some of the UK residents thoughts on the prediction of a mild winter..

It would have been great news if they were right but as we can see the met office got it wrong again. I hope we all learn from it and only believe what we see when we get up in the morning. Maybe this was the reason not enough grit was ordered for this winter. So many companies make decisions based on met office long range forecasting. OOPS!

Another simply said…

Not a very good prediction to a warm winter It’s freezing and sooo much snow!

Although this is just an one example, it isn’t unique to Britain. It happens the world over and it’s a simple reminder that weather forecasting is not an exact science-perhaps ‘global warming’ could be another example?