Met Office Technology to Replace 'Snowman'

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An official white Christmas will never be the same again following the Met Office's decision to pension off their man with a woolly hat and replace him with a high-tech, though impersonal, sensor.

In the past a suitably dressed scientist would man each of the organisation's eight offices to see if snow was falling on Christmas Day. But from this year the whiteness of Christmas Day will be monitored from the Met Office's central operations centre in Exeter using ground sensors, web cams, radar and something the organisation calls "expert judgement".

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Met Office Technology to Replace 'Snowman'

The move comes because officials say that it will be more accurate...

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