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We often wonder if Tomasz Schafernaker has a Cracker Tracker mortgage.

I have a soft spot for Tomasz Schafernaker (pardon my spelling). He was caught giving a naughty sign in a playful way to one of the news readers when he thought he was off air. The look on his face when realisation hit him was priceless.

Sarah Blizzard gets about - we have her in the East Mids too!

rosequartz , Derek is a darling, have met him several times walking the Beacons, just as cheery on a wet day on Penyfan as when on telly . We cannot lose Derek . Get shot of the PoW even, but leave Derek with us

One of my sons was considering the Met Office as his next employer - guess he'll stay put after all.

We sometimes have Sara Blizzard doing the weather in the West Mids too anno. I have always been fascinated by people whose names reflect their jobs.

In the NW, we have a forecaster with the appropriate name of Sara Blizzard. I do hope she will still be around.

We like Derek, however our default channel is west. We could have a sit-in to save Derek!
They may not get rid of the tv forecasters (imagine if they all had NZ or Dutch accents ...)

I am going to demonstrate at the beeb, just realised Derek the weatherman is employed by the met office , any welsh posters here ? Please join me, we must keep Derek

I just love the idea of the weather forecast being done by a New Zealand provider Do you think they will mix up the seasons? Totally surreal. I had to check that it wasn't April 1st.

The forecast was for 'showers' today.
It has been one long shower from first thing until about 10 minutes ago.

It will be interesting to know if the new lot will be any better.

How do you know about the efficiency of the Met Office, Jings?

A genuine question btw.

My favourite weather presenter went to Al Jazeera.
He obviously got fed up with the rainy West Country.

Carol Kirkwood is employed by the BBC and the others are expected to be employed by the new weather provider, so your favourites should still be on screen.

The weather forecasts here locally have been really quite inaccurate this year.

DH and I looked into paying a site for them[wont go into why], but the cost was quite prohibitive, so decided not to.

The met Office though, overall, is still supposed to be the most accurate in the world.
But I for one, am quite happy that another firm is going to get the contract.

Let's just hope if it's a European company we get some better weather.

It's got nothing to do with accuracy. Efficiency could be better at the Met Office. Then they could have won the contract. Too many died-in-the-wool fogey managers. They have brought it on themselves.

Met office supplies the info to the newcomers. Logical DOH.

I despair sometimes of what goes on here, but then we dont know what goes on elsewhere

We always laugh when it's Tomasz Schafernaker doing the forecast as he's
soooooooooooooo laid back! It's as if he called in on his way home from a party just to read a bit of the weather forecast.

If the Dutch and New Zealand companies are equal to our met office why will the beeb still depend on the met office for severe weather warnings

Hope they'll keep Look North's Paul Hudson - his forecasts are usually very good.

Perhaps because the forecasters at Met Office are not as accurate as they would like to think they are?

I agree with all of you but do we know which weather presenters are employed by the Met office and which by the Beeb? Maybe some of the presenters will stay even if they are giving some other body's forecast.

It's appalling. Money is behind it. The Met Office tender was higher than those from a Dutch company and a New Zealand company so they've lost out. I'm sure the other companies are highly proficient but I would rather trust the Met Office and keep the jobs in the UK.