{"id":278813,"date":"2010-02-04T18:25:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T23:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5057"},"modified":"2010-02-04T18:25:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T23:25:40","slug":"you-could-not-make-it-up-met-office-relying-on-amateur-computer-daily-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/278813","title":{"rendered":"You Could Not Make It Up: MET OFFICE RELYING ON AMATEUR COMPUTER, Daily Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=165\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Met Office&quot;\">Met Office<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=299\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;You could not make it up&quot;\">You could not make it up<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550x418.jpg\" height=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/attachments\/database\/Daily%20Express%2011__550x418.jpg\" alt=\"article image\" \/><\/p>\n<p> A COMPUTER that cost \u00a330million was supposed to improve weather forecasting at the Met Office.<\/p>\n<p>But after a few blips, including last year\u2019s \u201cbarbecue summer\u201d that never was, officials are instead relying on an amateur, it was revealed yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>Keith Davis, 48, collates rainfall, temperature and humidity readings from a homemade weather station in his garden in Tavistock, Devon. The Met Office contacts him for updates, despite its own modern technology.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Davis said: \u201cMy information is very accurate, especially the barometer readings.\u201d Last night a Met Office spokesman said: \u201cWe use his measurements more as a guide rather than part of our observation network.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Click source to read more<\/p>\n<p>Source: express.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5057\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/T4Q9uJSeqfT2Bl6CLIYPjvZaGRE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/T4Q9uJSeqfT2Bl6CLIYPjvZaGRE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/T4Q9uJSeqfT2Bl6CLIYPjvZaGRE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/T4Q9uJSeqfT2Bl6CLIYPjvZaGRE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/lY9pyomCVzA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Met Office, You could not make it up A COMPUTER that cost \u00a330million was supposed to improve weather forecasting at the Met Office. But after a few blips, including last year\u2019s \u201cbarbecue summer\u201d that never was, officials are instead relying on an amateur, it was revealed yesterday. Keith Davis, 48, collates rainfall, temperature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}