Metman2012 wrote:

On 03/03/2018 10:21, Norman Lynagh wrote:
wrote:

The northward moving occluded front is giving snow right across
the Midlads and East Anglia now (just arriving in your local
neighbourhood around Stoke about now I should think....). In
Hertfordshire there is yet another problem of a large number of
motorists stuck in snow -I think it was 100 cars between Luton and
Hitchin . Patchy snow has been expected in northern and central
this weekend for several days now. The warnings seem fully
justified and appropriate IMO.


I'm with Graham on this one, Julian. There was a warning of snow for
this area from 0005 till 2355 yesterday, We didn't get one flake of
snow during that period. We seem to get a lot of these 'cry wolf'
warnings. As a result, people tend to ignore all warnings and, of
course, occasionally get caught out. The fact that a Time of Issue
is no longer included in each warning further reduces their
usefulness.


I asked why the TOI had been removed from the warnings and got the
reply that 'they are confusing'. I just replied that they are even
more confusing without. That's progress for you.


Yes, it's all very strange. All their other forecast products have a
ToI so why not the warnings? When I asked about this back in December I
got the following response

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Thank you for your email regarding time of issue on our weather
warnings.

The time of issue is shown on the warnings pages on our Mobile website,
see:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/mobile/warnings/uk

I agree that it would make sense for this to be included on all
warnings; ideally you should not have to specifically go to our mobile
site to find this, although I hope it is reassuring to know that the
information is still available.

As part of continuous improvements which we are committed to making to
our services, we are currently undergoing a review of our National
Severe Weather Warnings Service, and hope to be in a position to
implement furtherupdates in 2018.

Your feedback will certainly be useful and will be passed to the
relevant department for review.
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However, I see that Times of Issue have since been removed from
warnings on the mobile website. It seems to be a deliberate policy not
to state when individual warnings are issued. Very odd.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
Twitter: @TideswellWeathr