"John Hall" wrote in message
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In message , Brian Lawrence
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On 06/01/2015 19:50, Malcolm wrote:

snip a load of crap, even dangerous crap considering the alarm that your
forecasts may have engendered among the elderly.

Well yes, but how many 'elderly' will have seen those 'forecasts'?

Quite a few, I would think, if they read papers such as the Daily Express.
(And even the Daily Telegraph isn't above running alarmist weather stories
from time to time.)

Also,
unless they are suffering from dementia why would they take them
seriously|?


Clearly a lot of people /do/ take them seriously, even including Boris
Johnson who, whatever his faults, seems unlikely to be suffering from
dementia.

I was playing a league skittles match one night in December and I got asked
about the blizzards, and I said "what blizzards?", the reply was "the ones
the Met Office are forecasting". I just groaned and put them right.
I also took the opportunity to point them to the MetO and Haytor web sites.

Will
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Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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