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Old August 17th 10, 10:27 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Man buys weather station; gets national news coverage

In article ,
hungerdunger writes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...et-Office.html

Am I missing something here? This man has bought a Davis Vantage Pro and is
using "Weather Underground" software, as are many other people in the UK,
yet this appears to qualify him for a piece in the Daily Mail, and five
minutes on Radio 5's evening news programme (at about 6.50 if anyone can be
bothered to Listen Again).

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It featured in the Daily Telegraph too. It doesn't say much for their
degree of knowledge of online weather stations that they thought that
this was news. I guess that the owner is a shrewd self-publicist and
that they took what he said at face value.
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