John Hall wrote:

In message , Brian Lawrence
writes
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.


Even the Met Office falls into media alarmist jargon at times. The current Peak
District forecast refers to 'severe gale force gusts'.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org