Mitchell on meteorology

[sawyl]

In today's Observer, David Mitchell says wise and true and funny things about weather forecasting, including this gem:

Newspapers seem to imply that they don't think the Met Office is trying its best to work out what the weather's going to be like; that this organisation, established and funded with the sole aim of working out what the weather's going to be like, might have let working out what the weather's going to be like slip down its "Things To Do" list, below such items as "Have huge boozy lunch at taxpayers' expense"; "Book summer holiday a long way from Britain (where it's going to piss down despite our assurances to the contrary)"; and "Meet BBC execs in champagne bar for lots of cocaine and a giggle at some child porn."