Summer forecast wrong, admits Environment Canada

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TORONTO - Forecasters at Environment Canada say they got this summer's forecast wrong – and are willing to own up to it.

I don't think we've ever been so wrong for so much of the country as this summer," said Phillips.

Computers that analyse weather indicated warm water off the coast of British Columbia and Atlantic Canada, and predicted it would warm the air over most of the country, he said.

Federal cutbacks that eliminated nine weather observation stations across the country last year haven't impeded our ability to predict the weather because computers are monitoring the oceans like never before, he said.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/08/31/weather_enviro040831.html

Well looks like maybe they should let the computer build the model and let everybody go.
Is Harold there yet?