For a short-term forecast there can be a grain of truth in this.

It already produces a range of short-term forecasts aimed at the week ahead, plus seasonal ones that predict the weather over the next few months.

While short-term forecasts depended on uncertain views about business and consumer confidence, longer-term forecasts were based on changed trading arrangements.

It's a rational response to the stagnation in real incomes and has meant that, contrary to the gloomier short-term forecasts, the economy has kept expanding.

Current active research in dual-polarization radar includes winter precipitation, detection and short-term forecasting of high-impact weather events, quantitative precipitation estimation, satellite validation, and particle type identification.