BBC weather: little change

So at last it has been confirmed that, after 93 years, the Met Office has lost its contract to provide the BBC with weather forecasts to Meteo, a formerly Dutch company now based in London and owned by an equity investment fund.

As I explained here last year, this was not because of the notoriety the global-warming obsessed Met Office had for years been attracting for predicting hotter summers and warmer winters than turned out to be the case, but because the BBC had been forced by an EU directive to put its “weather services” out to tender, and Meteo was the lowest bidder.

But the irony is, as I also explained last August, that Meteo will still be having to buy most of its weather data from the Met Office, with its unrivalled network of UK weather stations. So although our future BBC forecasts may look different, they will still be largely derived from that same giant computer model which has made the Met Office’s forecasts a national joke.

as we say, “barbecue summer” when the rain never stops.