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 (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/19/belfast_storm_warning/), the Brummie snow in July outrage (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/04/snow_in_brum/) and the 188°C Leeds miniheatwave (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/21/leeds_heatwave/), 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 (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/18/sd_weather_map/) 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. ®

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