Could rain become gain,can a forecaster explain ?

Question

why cant weather forecasters be sued for giving wrong info?

again today I listened to the breakfast telly weather and was told that if we lived on the south coast we would be very unlucky if we seen a very light shower.so of I went and concreted my customers driveway.Just after lunch we was unfortunate to have that light shower which led to an almighty downpour of hail stones followed by about twenty minutes of torrential rain .so you can imagine what the concrete looks like.Loss of labour ,loss of materials and thanks to someone with all that technoligy cant get it right.on the other hand ,as a builder if I told my customer one thing and done something entirely different there would be h**l to play .so should we be able to sue them for loss of earnings , materials etc?

Answer 1

It's a forcast you git - you pays your money and you takes your chances - you can't sue someone for NOT being able to predict the future.

Answer 2

I forecast for the Air Force. I forecast for an airfield, with a five mile radius. I, for a very good percentage of the time (say 90%), get the weather right, even little rain showers. However, when you do what a meteorologist on, say, a tv or radio station do, you are doing a forecast for a very large area, and there are so many things that can affect the weather. I've seen things such as a small plot of farm land with vegetation cause fog that you can't see a 1/4 mile in. That's why you hear these meteorologists forecast the weather with such things as "30% chance of rain" or "light showers." Because it is really impossible to give a specific forecast for such a large area.

Also, weather changes very quickly. Meteorologists rely on computer models to predict the atmospheric physics that help to cause the weather. Sometimes these models are wrong.