Ian, I find the BBC Scotland TV regional forecast quite good just before 7pm. It's sometimes very rushed but with zoomed in graphics you get more of an idea of what's going to happen. They show Edinburgh and Aberdeen temperatures. You are in between these cities and often 2 degrees warmer than Edinburgh in SW or W winds.
Perhaps not as local as you would like. It's a shame the Met Office don't produce a Scotland only broadcast.
As for the national BBC forecast....forget it! London comes first, then the Midlands and lastly Northern England, perhaps Northern Ireland. Even Carol Kirkwood largely ignores Scotland, her native country!
True, and she wasn't even here for the last Hogmanay celebrations as she had been for at least the previous couple of years that I could remember.
One thing I will say about the BBC Scotland forecast though is that just like its national UK counterpart, it is coming from Meteogroup rather than the Met Office which makes the reliability of the model output which is used for those forecsts, just as question.
If you are looking for a Scottish forecast which is coming from the Met Office, I would probably look no further than STV's forecast with Sean Batty as its anchor man.
As the Met Office is technically a UK Government department, I would imagine that the only way in which we could ever have a separate Scottish Met Office would be if Scotland itself, was to become independent or if that responsibility was somehow devolved to the Scottish Government but since this isn't a political forum, I won't go into that one here.
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15 August 2018 08:05:22
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The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.