Activity 11 - Weather

The Weather on Tuesday (02/10/2012)

 

The weather forecast is quite accurate but not fully correct. This is because the weather forecast said it would start raining at 20:00 and finish at 01:00, where it started raining at 18:00 and then stopped at 19:00 and then started again at 22:00. This shows that the weather forecast on the same day as you are on is almost fully correct but there are small mistakes in the forecast.

The Weather on Wednesday (03/10/2012)

The weather forecast here shows the weather for Wednesday and it was not correct. The forecast says it was going to rain between 12:00 and 14:00 but it did not rain at all. The rest of the forecast is correct. The results here show that the weather forecast is getting less accurate the further away you look at it from a certain day. This is because this forecast is taken on the same day that Tuesday's was and this one is less accurate.



The Weather on Thursday (04/10/2012)

The forecast shown here is very vague compared to the previous ones. This is becasue it gets harder to predict the weather the further away it is from the date you are predicting from. Although it is harder, in this instance the weather forecast shown here is correct, as it was sunny through Thursday and rained at night. 

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The Weather on Friday (05/10/2012)

 

The forecast shown is even vague and less detailed than the on for Thursday. The forecast is mostly correct, except for the afternoon as it stopped raining. It is not a surprise that the forecast is wrong here as it was measured three days before this date.

The Weather on Saturday (06/10/2012)

The weather forecast here is nearly right. The forecast for the morning is wrong as it didn't rain but it is right for the rest of the day. 

Overall I think the results given by the weather forecast on http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ was quite accurate, although there were some mistakes. The main problem with the website was that during the later stages of the week the forecast became even more vague, and this factor will make it hard for people to pre-plan what they want to do.