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David Allan writes:
At the beginning of the week, I caught one of the BBC breakfast
presenters on TV saying something about it getting really cold
later in the week and mentioned a 'national' paper saying
temperatures would drop to -15C!

That was the Express. The BBC presenters should know better than to take
any notice of its weather stories, which only rarely have any basis in
reality.

The link then when into the weather slot where the forecaster
qualified the statement by explaining that when they said -15C,
they probably meant the mountain tops.

Would that have been Carol Kirkwood? I think she is very much a
presenter rather than a forecaster. Even so, she ought to know that very
low overnight temperatures usually occur in frost hollows, and that -15C
on our mountain tops is very rare, certainly in November. Certainly
nothing that the Met Office was forecasting suggested anything
exceptionally cold.

Now, here we are at Thursday and the weekend temperatures for
Northeast England (where I live) are predicted to be around 7-8C
and up to 10C for the start of the new week. Did I miss something?

No. It sounds like it was a poor effort by the Breakfast Time people.
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John Hall

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
Oscar Wilde