Forecasting accuracy of weather forecasts

On Sept 16 Lynn Kelliher wrote in your newspaper about the “uncanny accuracy” of long-range weather forecaster Ken Ring.

In that article, Mr Ring predicts that “there will be a sudden downward plunge into sub-zeros in the last few days of November”.

We are now in the last day of November, and the temperatures remain stubbornly fixed at 8 to 10 degrees above zero.