Others objected that changing the characters was unnecessary and would waste vast amounts of money as shopkeepers and tea-houses across China changed their signboards, and school textbooks were reprinted in their tens of millions.
But then othersobjected that the Met Office is the official provider of World Meteorological Organisation statistics and it would be ludicrous to reject their highly sophisticated statistics smoothed by computer models just because the Met Office forecasters were amongst the contestants in the Weather Test.