At 2:56 pm BBC News 24 finished a chilling report about the thousands
of messages left on the beeb website, mostly full of doom and gloom
from or about people who lost their loved ones in the sunami. It was
presented in genuinely sombre mood and immediately afterwards, they
handed over in an entirely appropriate way to Helen Willets for the
weather.

Cue Helen, all bouncy, bright and breezy - full of the joys of Spring:
"Good afternoon Valerie, good afternoon Peter as well..." beaming
smile "it's getting much milder after today... blahblahblah [who
cared by then?]". Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

Well I'm sorry Helen, I'm not usually one for nitpicking but you
really must keep a close eye on the final news item preceding your
forecast. Either that, or it's a perfect example of why chatty
forecasts should NEVER be prerecorded... the entire weather
presentation looked and felt quite, quite wrong. Very bad form News 24
directors, Helen... or both.

--
Dave