As for what happens when all this nonsense is proved to be wrong- nothing! Look at the Y2K bug scam. Millions wasted and mostly harvested by the same shills pushing climate crap!
When my bills start going down I will believe renewables are cheaper no sign of that on the horizon.
The BOM have now changed from making a total mess of weather predictions to that of it taking second place to the climate change scam. They know they can keep doubling their numbers and costs if they back up the fraudulent renewable industry. I was doing a job in 1991 and was told Melbourne weather was consistently the same for one hundred years.
Before anyone starts on me, thank you Aiden. Prices have gone up with your renewables and the BOM are still unable to get more than fifty per cent of their predictions right. Famously, Winston Churchill in the second World War said that if the exact opposite of what the weathermen predicted was taken they would be safer. It's still right.

'Adelaide. Third day in a row, low 20s, misty rain. Forecast for the rest of the week: 18 with rain; 20; 23, 27.'

has to be because of climate change tttbn. Come on get with the program.

Dear JBowyer,

Geez mate you do talk out of your arse a lot don't you.

The BOM are extraordinarily accurate even compared to 10 years ago. Their understanding of long term weather patterns for this country are a credit to them.

This was their 3 month out modelling for our upcoming summer done in October.

http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/sco/archive/index.jsp?map=tmax&outlook=median&period=season1&year=2018&month=10&day=25&y=2018&m=10&d=25

Bloody well nailed it so far don't you think.

Steele put down the "The end of the world is nigh" sandwich board and actually go outside. Also watch the Weather on any TV. I think they do not get it right a lot of the time but never fail to point out how hot it is in, The Great Stony Desert, Gibson Desert you know local area.

JBowyer,

SR just wanted to type"arse". Some of us prefer to consult independent sources of information, not the site of of the incompetent BOM itself. I agree with you. On a value-for-money basis, the BOM fails. Their total balls up of the forecast for Townsville is only one of their many blues. Have a look ar Jo Nova's sight for a few examples their wild guesses.

Dear Jbowyer,

“go outside”?

What trite dribble!

Mate you are the one talking about the accuracy of the BOM. You can't just offer up absolutely no evidence and think you will not get challenged on it.

Here is a paper looking at the accuracy of weather forecasting in Melbourne, a city notorious for having four seasons in one day.
http://weather-climate.com/ForecastAccuracyMelbourne29June2007.pdf

If you go to the figure on page 9 showing the average error from the predicted daily maximum you will see how much the forecasting has improved for all time frames from 1 day out through to 7 days out.

In the 70s the average error margin for single day forecasts was over 2C now it is well under 1.5C. All other brackets have improved too with the 2, 3, and 4 day errors halving.

There you go mate, that is some evidence to back up my claim now where is yours, or are you just full of it?