Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/16/london_high/
London hits all-time August high
BBC Weather turns up the heat - big time
Posted in Media, 16th August 2006 15:32 GMT
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You've really got to ask yourself just what on God's Green Earth is going on down at BBC Weather. Following the Belfast tropical storm warning [1], the Brummie snow in July outrage [2] and the 188°C Leeds miniheatwave [3], we now discover that Londoners wishing to melt steel without the aid of a blast furnace should make, er, hay while the sun shines:
Well, it looks like the BBC News ticker has finaly succumbed to BBC Weather madness. We blame the transition from flat weather [4] to 3D weather. At no stage during Michael Fish's flat weather tenure did UK summer temperatures hit 1777°C. Ok, so we had the odd hurricane, but no tropical storms. The prosecution rests. ®