My alternative weather forecasts have been extremely accurate

Your correspondent Richard Cotter (Letters, Jan 4) is entitled to his opinions, as I am to mine.

Mr Cotter is clearly not a fan of what he thinks is astrology. Seeing that astrology paved the way for, and so made possible the morphing into; modern science, becoming astronomy, modern medicine, biology, geography and applied mathematics, which then became computer science, he is probably disdainful of all these too.

If he thinks forecasters halt at five-day forecasts, he might wish to view Met Éireann’s longrange predictions for summers and winters to come, in which MÉ’s Ray McGrath said: “Met Éireann produces extended forecasts and seasonal forecasts but is reluctant to give them out because they could affect the credibility of the weather service.”