Exacta Weather think they can forecast the weather: they can’t
Over the years of weather watching, it’s become apparent that there a lot of folks out there who’ve taken a stab at weather forecasting. One of the first who came onto the scene was Bill Foggitt, a local (farmer?) from North Yorkshire who made his forecasts by watching nature and writing a little column for a local newspaper. He didn’t try to make any money from it and just enjoyed talking weather with people. He was a local character. Everyone loved Bill.
Since the internet came along, weather forecasting has exploded. There’s a plethora of info out there for people to reference. I first got into it while I was still at school (see the homepage interests section) As usual, there’s people who reckon they can make money out of it. Some of these people are really good and knowledgeable, but for every few that are, there’s the usual crop of charlatans who claim they can forecast better than the Met Office by using nothing other than an old sock and a laptop. They claim that their system (unpublished and unvetted) is superior in every way and can see waaaaay into the future. They also claim nearly 100% accuracy. One prominent ‘company’ claiming this kind of success is Exacta Weather, mainly on their Exacta Weather Facebook page.
Exacta definitely can’t!
James runs a ‘business’ called Exacta Weather (i’m not giving him a link in a million years). He started Exacta Weather in 2010 when he luckily predicted the winter to be cold. He saw an opportunity to make money and has issued ‘forecasts’ ever since, charging ridiculous amounts of money for those gullible enough to stump up the cash for his vague tosh. He’s never predicted anything correctly since then. Whatever Exacta Weather predicts, you can bet that the real weather does exactly the opposite.
Exacta Weather (not registered at Companies House, so he’s a sole-trader) is run for personal gain. The way he writes his forecasts, he tries to give the impression that he is an expert and has a team of devoted meteorologists working for his company, but in fact he is a one man band operating from a poky flat in Lancaster. That is his first deception. James has no meteorological qualifications whatsoever. He sends out spam emails by using disposable email addresses and sends his lies to all the papers like the Daily Express, where his ‘partner in meteorological crime’ is a guy called Nathan Rao. Between them they are responsible for 95% of the crap weather stories that appear in the media. None of the stories are remotely true or based on real science, they are just bulls**t generated to sell papers and gain subscriptions for Exacta. The tabloids lap it up. It’s the ‘worst winter for 100 years’ every year according to them, even when the evidence shows the opposite. The Met Office get the blame when they are wrong. It was the Weather Forecasters who ‘don’t have a clue’ and ‘can’t forecast for tomorrow’, let alone 5 days ahead. No-one noticed the original forecast didn’t come from the Met Office, but from Exacta Weather or the other guy whose name must also be mentioned, Piers Corbyn (yes, he is the brother of Labour leader Jeremy and equally as potty in my opinion).
How Exacta Weather end up just fiddling the figures
What usually happens then is the weather doesn’t ‘conform’ to his forecast, James then tries to claim he was right by verifying his own forecast of, for example ‘widespread snow’ against a dusting on top of the Cairngorms. He is so inept that the product he used to sell for ££££’s after his lucky break in 2010 can now be seen hawked for a few pence on his website. He is a complete charlatan and liar who makes money out of scaring old ladies they are going to freeze to death every winter.
It is impossible to do what they claim. Exacta Weather cannot predict the weather correctly from many months in advance. That is a total lie and a brazen attempt to deceive. Weather is a complex science and evolution of weather systems is chaotic. It simply cannot be done. Exacta Weather cannot predict accuately in May that it’s going to snow to a depth of more than a foot on December 18th, even with a margin for error of a few days. It’s just simply a guess, and such a sensational one that he’ll be 99.9% certain to be wrong. But, even at those odds, if he spews out 1,000 ‘forecasts’ he’ll be right once. That’s why Exacta Weather are so prolific. Don’t let him get away with it. I’m certainly not going to. My aim is to get this post in position 1 on Google for the ‘Exacta Weather’ search term, pushing his site down the rankings to where it truly belongs. Oblivion
Please don’t believe anything Exacta Weather say. The forecasts are total fiction, have no basis in the science of Meteorology and don’t stand up to scrutiny. They couldn’t forecast darkness at night time. 😉
There’s more on fake weather stories here at DurhamWeather.Co.Uk
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It is you who is the liar, cheat and charlatan who makes defamatory statements about Madden and Corbyn.
I do not know who Meggie is but what credentials does she have to back up her statement,none I would think,this person is probably an alias for madden.
No, he’s right. You must work for Exacta.
This site is a breath of fresh air,at last Madden is revealed as the charlatan he is. Way back in 1962 I made a forecast for that winter which got into the local press and TV and luckily it was right, I made a vow never to do the same thing again,being right is great but luck (certainly in those days plays a big part). Weather forecasting is not an exact science and for our little island will not be for some time to come. I would urge a boycott of Maddens site and for those interested in Meteorology try NetWeather.tv
Thanks, Michael. I read the site you mentioned all the time. There are more learned people there than anywhere. Madden is clueless, he’s not a forecaster, he’s just a chancer. He knows little about weather, that’s for sure.
You’re right about Madden/Rao/Corbyn. But just as things are going well you have to be political about it. “Piers Corbyn (yes, he is the brother of Labour leader Jeremy and equally as potty).” Regardless of what you think about JC, he has nothing whatsoever to do with Madden and Co. So stick to exposing Madden and leave politics out of it.
Ha ha, Sorry badly worded by me, I meant Piers is equally as potty as Madden, not JC.
I could not agree more about James Madden, thank you for exposing him as the fraud he so clearly is.
What he knows about the weather could be written on the back of a postage stamp with a very large pen.
Meanwhile, over at the Daily Express the silly season has clearly started with their ridiculous weather stories.