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by Ben Pile
The BBC Weather app incorrectly forecast winds of 15,000mph in Oxford Circus and temperatures of 404°C in Nottingham amid a countrywide software failure.
Chilly 'Junuary' in fact had more sunshine than average for the time of year, the Met Office has claimed – using its 19th century sunshine recorders that can't tell when its cloudy.
After a damp and chilly June, how long until the BBC and Met Office tell us that, like the frigid spring, it is the 'hottest ever'? David Craig takes a look under the bonnet at how the dubious 'records' are made.
Retired airline captain James Leary says the easiest way to understand weather is to think of a zoo full of animals fighting over limited food in a giant balloon. The idea that this can be 'modelled' is for the birds.
Three Typhoon fighter jets were landing at RAF Coningsby when the brief U.K. temperature record was declared on July 19th last year from a measuring device situated halfway down the runway, it has been revealed.
The recent brief heatwave in the U.K. and parts of Europe provides a textbook case of how the weather is being catastrophised to serve the interests of the command-and-control Net Zero agenda.
Assuming you survived the 'extreme heat' of Monday's 38° record-missing let down, send in your thermometer readings again today to see if it really hits 43°. Will the forecasts fare better on Tuesday?
Already the forecasts of 40C are dropping, but their work is done. Population scared and headlines written, but let's return to Planet Reality, where the 9.17C average in the 2010s was colder than the 9.31C in the 2000s.
What's the temperature where you are? As Britain goes on red alert for a heatwave "crisis", we're inviting readers to send us the temperature readings from their outdoor thermometers to see how well the forecasts fare.
A triple whammy of heavy rain, high winds and low temperatures has kept pubgoers away from exposed beer gardens today – many pubs across England haven't bothered opening at all.
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