Why does the met office auto forecast show heavy snow symbols (for Leek)
from 10.00 to 16.00 tomorrow then light snow from 17.00 to midnight when the
written forecast says scattered wintry showers?
Friday is the opposite. The written forecast says heavy wintry showers with
thunder?
To add to the confusion the warning is for wind, it then says the snow
warnings below does not apply to this area??


Graham

Graham wrote:

Why does the met office auto forecast show heavy snow symbols (for
Leek) from 10.00 to 16.00 tomorrow then light snow from 17.00 to
midnight when the written forecast says scattered wintry showers?
Friday is the opposite. The written forecast says heavy wintry
showers with thunder? To add to the confusion the warning is for
wind, it then says the snow warnings below does not apply to this
area??


Graham

Because one is straight model output whereas the other is written by a
human forecaster. I often find a similar conflict for this area. The
model still isn't very good at giving location/time-specific forecasts.
IMHO I don't think raw model output should be issued as end-user
material to Joe Public.


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On Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 10:30:08 AM UTC, Graham wrote:
Why does the met office auto forecast show heavy snow symbols (for Leek)
from 10.00 to 16.00 tomorrow then light snow from 17.00 to midnight when the
written forecast says scattered wintry showers?
Friday is the opposite. The written forecast says heavy wintry showers with
thunder?
To add to the confusion the warning is for wind, it then says the snow
warnings below does not apply to this area??


Graham

Graham,

Looking at the Leek forecast issued at 0900 there are no heavy snow symbols between 1000 and 1600 today, they are just indicating sleet.
I don't see any confusion with the warning. If you look at the map its clear that Leek is outside the zone for snow. However, if you were to travel 17 miles to the northeast you would enter the snow warning area.

Dick Lovett

On Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 10:58:23 AM UTC, wrote:
On Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 10:30:08 AM UTC, Graham wrote:
Why does the met office auto forecast show heavy snow symbols (for Leek)
from 10.00 to 16.00 tomorrow then light snow from 17.00 to midnight when the
written forecast says scattered wintry showers?
Friday is the opposite. The written forecast says heavy wintry showers with
thunder?
To add to the confusion the warning is for wind, it then says the snow
warnings below does not apply to this area??


Graham

Graham,

Looking at the Leek forecast issued at 0900 there are no heavy snow symbols between 1000 and 1600 today, they are just indicating sleet.
I don't see any confusion with the warning. If you look at the map its clear that Leek is outside the zone for snow. However, if you were to travel 17 miles to the northeast you would enter the snow warning area.

Dick Lovett

When I said 1000-1600 today, I meant tomorrow.

Dick

Looking at the Leek forecast issued at 0900 there are no heavy snow
symbols between 1000 and 1600 today, they are just indicating sleet.
I don't see any confusion with the warning. If you look at the map its
clear that Leek is outside the zone for snow. However, if you were to
travel 17 miles to the northeast you would enter the snow warning area.

Dick Lovett

I see it's now changed from earlier. It is now showing sleet until 17.00
then snow from 18.00 to 22.00

Graham