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Icy roads – were councils misled by Met Office forecasts?

Malcolm Heymer, Dereham, Norfolk
19 February 2010
 

The article on the problems faced by many highway authorities in coping with this year’s winter weather reveals that the majority had not stockpiled sufficient de-icing salt to cope with prolonged cold weather. To what extent might this failure be attributed to the Met Office’s long-range forecast of a mild winter?

While the Met Office claims, with some justification, that its five-day forecasts are reasonably accurate, this is of no help whatsoever to highway authorities that need...

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