GKN wrote:

Over hyping the forecast, so they cannnot be blamed if people start
passing out with the heat. Think about it!!!!
They do the same with forecasts of snow. The motto is over do it, and they
cant say they were not warned!!!

Part of their pay depends on getting forecasts right but they deliberately
get them wrong for Health & Safety reasons? Yes, that seems likely.

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell

Graham P Davis wrote:
GKN wrote:

Over hyping the forecast, so they cannnot be blamed if people start
passing out with the heat. Think about it!!!!
They do the same with forecasts of snow. The motto is over do it, and they
cant say they were not warned!!!

Part of their pay depends on getting forecasts right but they deliberately
get them wrong for Health & Safety reasons? Yes, that seems likely.

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell

That's quite an accusation if it refers to the actual
temperature values being deliberately inflated as opposed to merely
exaggerating the *effects* of high temperatures. I'd like to think the
Met Office or the BBC haven't descended to those depths, but maybe they
have.
Max temp here 32.4°C, 0.9°C higher than yesterday. Last
night's min was 10.4° and the diurnal range is within 0.1° of my
record (starting 1983).

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.