Weathermen sued for getting it wrong

Weathermen are being sued in Romania by hotel and restaurant owners who say the rain they keep forecasting has frequently failed to arrive.

They say reports every week that resorts will face heavy rains have hit business hard and left hotels in tourist areas like the Black Sea coast only half full.

Despite the forecasts of bad weather, in many cases the whole weekends have been sunny and bright.

Nicu Popescu, the owner of a large villa compound in the Costinesti resort, said: "When the forecasts are this bad and yet the weather proves excellent, it is obvious that we have a problem.

"The seaside season is short and the forecasts make all our efforts to get business useless."

The news comes just four months after Ion Poiana, head of Romania's National Meteorology Agency, was sacked by the environment ministry for making incorrect weather forecasts.

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