A BBC weather forecaster has suggested that the Met Office’s super-computer has a ‘warm bias’ which has stopped it predicting bitterly cold spells like the one we have just endured.
Paul Hudson said the error may have crept into the computer’s climate model as a result of successive years of milder weather.
His claim was rejected by the Met Office but other experts said there could be flaws in the system, which was first developed 50 years ago.
In a blog, the BBC Look North presenter writes: ‘Clearly there is the rest of January and February to go, but such has been the intensity of the cold spell…it would take something remarkable for the Met Office’s forecast (of a mild winter) to be right.
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