One of the things I really hate about modern technology is the way it gives people a sense of entitlement to information that most of us must have managed to live without for much of our lives.
Weather forecasts have become more accurate as the network of weather satellites was developed and expanded since the 1960s, and the computing capacity of the Met office has increased enormously since the installation of new equipment in 2012-13. Oddly enough the human race survived for thousands of years without knowing the exact moment is was going to start raining, and it really isn’t essential now.
I suggest we all acquire an umbrella, a range of clothing appropriate for a variable climate, and learn to live with a modicum of uncertainty. I can’t be the only person on here whose mother’s parting shot whenever I went out was ‘put a pacamac in your handbag in case it rains’, even on the driest of days, or ‘take a cardi in case it turns cold’ when the barometer was set fair and the mercury showed 90 degrees (Fahrenheit, of course).
🦞 Locked down no longer but still firm friends 🦞