Robin Wilson wrote:
Hi all,

After watching the BBC Heatwave programme (which I know is fictional) I
was wondering how likely a dramatic change (from heatwave to extremely
severe thunderstorms) like the one portrayed actually is. They said it was
to do with the cold air from the Atlantic Front colliding with the warm
air from the heatwave - but would that really cause that dramatic a change
in such a short time? This is probably a rather silly question, but I was
just wondering.

Thanks

Robin

P.S. Just another thing - they showed pictures of cars and lorries hit by
lightening - and someone died in the catering van at the music
festival...but I have always been told that the safest place to be in a
thunderstorm is in a car - because the wheels insulate you. Is that not
correct?

Fictional rubbish, and particularly cheap-n-nasty TV IMHO:-

1. Base what little story there is on the French heatwave.
2. Mix it up with some archived footage of fires, people swimming in
public ponds etc.
3. Get some C-list actors in to recount fictional stories.
4. Blend with copious amounts of tabloid froth.

Oh how far the BBC has fallen...

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Chris
www.ivy-house.net
Swaffham, Norfolk