On Jan 15, 2:39*pm, "Tony Kenyon"
wrote:
"Adam Lea" *wrote in m...

On 15/01/12 13:56, Tony Kenyon wrote:

Am I the only one who finds all this nonsense on the Met Office website
and the Gov website incredibly irritating?

For those who don't know what I'm on about there has appeared on the Met
Office website an amber alert for a 90% probability of severe cold
weather in most of eastern England in the next day or so, with "daytime
maxima no higher than 3 or 4 degrees Celsius". Note not minus 3 or 4 but
plus 3 or 4!!

This is apparently bad for your health and could "disrupt the delivery
of services". How FFS!?
Probably something to do with the tens of thousands of excess deaths caused
by cold weather every year in the UK.

We all know that mortality rates increase when the weather is colder
(winter) and during the occasional heat waves. *Being told to turn the
heating up because it is cold seems a rather poor way to protect the
vulnerable or do you think that vulnerable people are somehow unable to work
this out for themselves?

Also, as Dave pointed out, I fail to see how temperatures of plus 3 to plus
4 degrees can be described as severe cold in January in the East of England!

That couldn't possibly be a human error could it?

It must be very hot working in an environment polluting a presumably
already well polluted town with another 10 or 12 Megawatt
superduperpooper.

Maybe they were suffering from heatstroke?