He had his geography of the rain corrected by the person who had the piece of paper.
Oh, said Chris, that is just the model. I am a forecaster; I take account of other information such as what the radar shows is going on.
More evidence that the forecaster is always a part of the system.
Mind you, an experience from yesterday evening reinforces the sympathy one can feel for someone with such a difficult job to do. The bus ran into very heavy rain about 4 miles from home; it was still pelting it down when we stopped in the middle of the village to pick up 3 drowned rats, the windscreen wipers going at full speed.
I zipped up my jacket & pulled up my hood, but then as I walked towards the front of the bus for my stop (only about a mile up the hill) I realised that the wipers had just stopped – no rain was falling there.
But I find from his BBC biography that Chris Fawkes comes from this part of the world, so he will know all about such variable conditions.
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