I'm not particularly comfortable moaning about the weather forecast but well, today...
Today I heard them saying on Radio 4 at about 8.30am that the weather 'in the North of England' was grey and cloudy and showery and would stay that way. In fact it was bright and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky. People were remarking about what brilliant weather it was. At a couple of points during the morning I checked various on-line weather sites including the BBC. Many of the forecasts had those graphs divided into hours - and all of them said that in Leeds it was cloudy and raining. WTF? (Oh that's 'Want That Fashion' according to a hoarding I passed today - they're just so darned clever those advertising types y'know?!)
Did none of them have a single intern or anyone at all who could look out of the window and work out that they were completely wrong?
In the end the weather did turn bad (some time in the afternoon) but it's a really surreal experience to be told by authoritative voices on the radio and usually reliable on-line sources like the BBC that black is actually white, or rather bright blue skies are actually grey rainy skies.
Maybe it was a glitch in the Matrix or tax haven money being re-shovelled about that caused the world to shift off its axis slightly...Shows that our super duper ever so modern 24 hour rolling weather world is not as advertised though...
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