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To: Tony Hall - Director General of the BBC
BBC: Please continue to use the Met Office
Reverse your decision to drop the contract with the Met Office to provide weather forecasting.
Why is this important?
Please protect protect the UK public's long term investment in both great serving British institutions and sustain the collaborative, innovative partnership into the future.
The Met Office is a trusted and respected world-wide leader in forecasting accuracy. The BBC is making a huge mistake in ending the current contract. It has provided the data used for BBC forecasts since the corporation's first radio weather bulletin on 14 November 1922.
The BBC said it had to use licence payers/tax payers money efficiently, so had to use the 'market'. But do we want to continue with the experts in the field, albeit at a higher cost, or do we want to cut corners and give the contract to a foreign company just because they can come in with a cheaper tender?
This decision is being made for short term gain rather than long term public infrastructure benefit.
The Met Office is a trusted and respected world-wide leader in forecasting accuracy. The BBC is making a huge mistake in ending the current contract. It has provided the data used for BBC forecasts since the corporation's first radio weather bulletin on 14 November 1922.
The BBC said it had to use licence payers/tax payers money efficiently, so had to use the 'market'. But do we want to continue with the experts in the field, albeit at a higher cost, or do we want to cut corners and give the contract to a foreign company just because they can come in with a cheaper tender?
This decision is being made for short term gain rather than long term public infrastructure benefit.
