hudson wrote:



Well I am used to being in a minority! It obviously does not bother anyone
else here but personally I would prefer to be told what the expected
temperatures were going to be. This is especially true as I travel around
the country a lot and am not always familiar with an area. Subjective
terms such as warm, cool, hot etc would in my mind also be preferable to
"about average."


But your preferred terms can't be used when it's "about average". Would
"neither warm nor cold" be OK?

In any case, the terms must not be subjective else they'll only have meaning
for the person presenting the forecast. That's been the problem with the
Met Office presenters in recent years when they've described a mild day as
cold or an "about average" day as "bitterly cold". That's why, whilst they
persist with this sloppiness, we need the temperatures so we can make our
own minds up. If they use these descriptions they must be objective, not
subjective.

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Graham Davis
Bracknell