Thork's OP however, juxtaposing 2 conflicting prediction of what is happening "next week" is a farce. Yes, its the UK, so its cold one day and warm the next.
Of course, part of the problem is that however many dollars, how much technology and expertise we throw at a question, some of the population can only understand the answer if its provided on a hand-held as a 125x125 pixel tile from a pay-per-click tabloid site.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that I know more about predicting weather than anyone else who visits this website. I have studied metrology extensively and passed numerous qualifications in the dark art.
I did metrology at A-level geography.
I did it again and in more depth when studying aerospace engineering. (A lot comes up with International Standard Atmososphere crap with maths and calcs).
I then did it again when I got my commercial pilots license at got 96% in the exam. That was more focused on cloud formations, winds and general weather predition from data.
Anyhoooooooo .... the thing I learned from all of that, is that weather prediction hasn't really improved in 100 years. The only thing that has improved is the speed at which data can be sent so you get your data points almost immediately meaning you can make a guess quicker.
But we get the same assumptions ...
Hurricane tracking, for example, has gotten a lot better since then.
It hasn't. We get data from far away sooner ... but what we do with it hasn't changed at all. The "science" that you blindly trust will let you down as often as not. Just beware placing blind trust in what scientists tell you. That's all the thread is about. Scientists tell you lies. Whether is Fauchi and Pfizer, the met office and the climate change brigade, or those who insist the earth is round. Lies, lies and more lies.