Being a meteorologist is harzardous!

[trini123]

We're having a crappy summer. Raining almost every day. This weekend was wet and more rain is coming today. Some people are taking it out on the meteorologists.

rom link: In 1996, Peruvian meteorologist Francisco Arias Olivera was hanged from a tree by an angry mob outside a TV station after a flash flood killed 17 people. He had predicted 50 millimetres of rain in 24 hours but the town was bombarded with 480 in 12 hours.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/0908 ... ky_weather (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090809/national/wacky_weather)

[letric]

Consider, the absurdity of the government body, the Meteorologist Office, London, paying bonuses to staff for the accuracy of their forecast, inspite of the dodgy prediction of a "barbecue summer". In 2008. the Met Office said the average summer will have a low risk of heavy rain fall. Later they admitted it was the 'it was the wettest on record across the country'. It then predicted a milder winter - which turned out to be the coldest in 13 years. A Met office spokesperson said despite poor publicity over seasonal forecasts, it's short term forecasts were "very, very good" and increasingly accurate. What a fiasco!