Britain’s Met Office loses out to New Zealand
The BBC is considering dumping Britain’s Met Office as the public broadcaster’s main weather forecaster and hiring one from New Zealand instead.The state-owned Met Office has come under fire in the past year for its inaccurate long-term forecasts for Britain.It infamously predicted a “barbecue summer” for Britain in 2009 which turned out to be a washout, before incorrectly forecasting a “mild” winter that instead saw the nation blanketed in snow.The BBC has relied on the Met Office for almost 90 years to provide it with forecasts but is now considering switching to New Zealand’s national forecaster, Metra.