After a year's deliberations the BBC Weather Test, backed by Today, and designed to assess the reliability of weather forecasters, is about to begin. A draft protocol of how to make the assessments has been drawn up and will be discussed tonight at the Royal Institution. Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin has been working on it.

You can find more information on the Weather Test here.

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