This video of the head of the UK Met Office being grilled on the BBC raises a number of interesting questions:
Given that short-term prediction is really pretty good (in the UK and elsewhere), should weather forecasting agencies be in the seasonal forecasting business (where they are just rolling dice)?
Should weather forecasting agencies be in the climate change prediction business (where everything is so political)?
In the late 1990s, did the UK Met Service really predict a "leveling off" of temperatures (as seems to be claimed in the video near the end)?