From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
More nonsense from the Daily Express:
Meanwhile back in the real world, the Met Office say temperatures will be “near or slightly above average”:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcqzwtdw7#?date=2024-08-30
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Summer has finally arrived! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Or is it an Indian Summer?
“Or is it an Indian Summer?”
At least we can have a curry to keep us warm !!
We are currently suffering in a blistering 13.8C
Indian summer is a hot day after the first frost. It is still summer summer, at least here in the northeastern US.
Let’s hope it lasts into Winter – it will save a few lives:
Cold kills eight times more than heat in Europe, study finds
https://www.thetimes.com/article/0128170b-4bfa-4f35-a35a-c4cb5b0717f7?shareToken=dbd814e538c05bb786f14277665ffe61
“Roasting” lands now joins with “boiling” oceans . . . sounds like the great beginnings of another TV cooking show.
Or a new movie, 2030 would be the title, I presume.
They are both long range forecasts. Long range forecasts are, um, unreliable. (For weather, anything over a week is long range).
Yes, but for the Met Office in the UK even 1 day is stretching capabilities.
High pressure system movement is much less hazardous to forecast than those pesky low pressure problems. My grandparents are familiar with the English expression – three days fine – used to introduce settled weather in weather chatter from many, many, many decades ago. Test the UK Met Office on low pressure movement and you’ll find their record is much less reliable (ask Michael Fish).
In 1944 they were able to predict the weather almost perfectly for the Dday landings, during a large low pressure system rolling through. 80 years ago when people with brains actually used them and defeated the brainless crazies of the world.
The Express has Beast From The East and Sahara Heatwave stories running concurrently for at least half the year, they’ve got to be right sooner or later!
As a regular peruser of the DE – it beats a Marvel comic any day – It is normal to have two completely opposing views in adjacent articles on what the weather is going to do. Presumably paid for by different sponsors.
(nearly all DE content is press releases or paid for advertorials. Meghan Markle alone must keep the rag in business with her endless stream of PR.)
Sadly its one good feature – the ability to comment, sometimes hilariously – is now so stifled by wokeness that I shall probably give up on it.
My suggestion is to base UK Met personnel’s wages on forecast correctness. Give them 100% if they get the next 3 days right (within a margin of error). Bonus if they get the next 3 days correct and take some away for getting it wrong. Anything they throw out there long range up to 15 days and fails is a ding.
old joke, man stands next to his son holding a test with an F for a grade, he says to his son “well at least you can still be a weatherman”
Is it allowed to say ‘ Indian ‘ summer ?
First Nations Fall heating crisis ?
The original British term for this phenomenon was “a little St Martin’s Summer”, defined by Collins’ dictionary as:-
Saint Martin’s summer in British English
noun usually abbreviated to: St Martin’s summer
a period of unusually warm weather in the late autumn, esp early November
Word origin
referring to St Martin’s feast-day, Oct 31 in the pre-Gregorian calendar (now Nov 11)
Let’s revisit this forecast in a month to see how it panned out. Today, it seems, all forecasts are shaded on the bad side, probably for public safety purposes, but seldom is reality so bad. Afterward, everyone forgets the failed forecasts and moves onto the next dire warnings.
Where I live in NW London, nothing above 25C quoted up to 13th of the month, apart from today, 1st September, where it might reach 28C. So either they don’t have a clue or this report is made up garbage.
The map shows the heat wave as red as in red alert, the Klingons are firing.