Well it won't be an old one, that's for sure.

Just how many mistakes is it possible to make in one article?

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...to-hit-Britain

Someone from PWS must be sleeping with the features editor. 8))
Thank goodness for the voice of reason from the MetO at the end.

"Dawlish" wrote in message
...
Well it won't be an old one, that's for sure.

Just how many mistakes is it possible to make in one article?

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...to-hit-Britain

So bad it's almost funny.
All the usual cliches are there, 'Big freeze', 'Arctic blast'. 'Torrential
rain',
'chaos', 'battering' etc, etc.....
And since when did 65mph gusts cause 'chaos' anyway, and indeed
Katia never 'devastated' anywhere.
Storms like Oct 1987 do that.

Someone from PWS must be sleeping with the features editor. 8))
Thank goodness for the voice of reason from the MetO at the end.

Yes, the forecast for the next few days looks showery and windy
with longer spells of rain at times. It could get pretty lively up here
tomorrow but it's just normal October weather.

I'll have to deal with this at work tomorrow now, just like with Katia.....
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

On Oct 5, 6:46*pm, "Col" wrote:
"Dawlish" wrote in message

...

Well it won't be an old one, that's for sure.

Just how many mistakes is it possible to make in one article?

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...to-hit-Britain

So bad it's almost funny.
All the usual cliches are there, 'Big freeze', 'Arctic blast'. 'Torrential
rain',
'chaos', 'battering' etc, etc.....
And since when did 65mph gusts cause 'chaos' anyway, and indeed
Katia never 'devastated' anywhere.
Storms like Oct 1987 do that.

Someone from PWS must be sleeping with the features editor. 8))
Thank goodness for the voice of reason from the MetO at the end.

Yes, the forecast for the next few days looks showery and windy
with longer spells of rain at times. It could get pretty lively up here
tomorrow but it's just normal October weather.

I'll have to deal with this at work tomorrow now, just like with Katia......
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

==========================

"Normal October weather" - exactly.

Unfortunately weather can never be normal to some of these people. It
always has to be extreme and hyperbolic -- not to say wrong. Then some
of us are left fighting fires.

"Katia", according to PWS, was supposed to bring "some of the worst
conditions seen in many Britons liftimes". This was of course arrant
nonsense; but i(f they're going to say that the current winds (which
they have no qualms wrongly calling a hurricane) are worse than that
-- well, then they'd have to state that there would be "chaos"
nationwide, wouldn't they? Once again it's irresponsible scaremogering
with no evidential basis. It's interesting to note, however, that the
PWS website "comment" or "top story" has beaten something of a
retreat; I should imagine because they have been soundly appraised of
their ignorance.

Actually, I say "they" but I should say "he". PWS comprises
essentially one man with indescernible credentials and a conveyor belt
of fictional young female "assistant forecasters". The gardener is
real enough, though, and the two chaps might be, making their
contributions from afar.

On Oct 6, 12:36*am, Stephen Davenport wrote:
On Oct 5, 6:46*pm, "Col" wrote:





"Dawlish" wrote in message

....

Well it won't be an old one, that's for sure.

Just how many mistakes is it possible to make in one article?

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...to-hit-Britain

So bad it's almost funny.
All the usual cliches are there, 'Big freeze', 'Arctic blast'. 'Torrential
rain',
'chaos', 'battering' etc, etc.....
And since when did 65mph gusts cause 'chaos' anyway, and indeed
Katia never 'devastated' anywhere.
Storms like Oct 1987 do that.

Someone from PWS must be sleeping with the features editor. 8))
Thank goodness for the voice of reason from the MetO at the end.

Yes, the forecast for the next few days looks showery and windy
with longer spells of rain at times. It could get pretty lively up here
tomorrow but it's just normal October weather.

I'll have to deal with this at work tomorrow now, just like with Katia......
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

==========================

"Normal October weather" - exactly.

Unfortunately weather can never be normal to some of these people. It
always has to be extreme and hyperbolic -- not to say wrong. Then some
of us are left fighting fires.

"Katia", according to PWS, was supposed to bring "some of the worst
conditions seen in many Britons liftimes". This was of course arrant
nonsense; but i(f they're going to say that the current winds (which
they have no qualms wrongly calling a hurricane) are worse than that
-- well, then they'd have to state that there would be "chaos"
nationwide, wouldn't they? Once again it's irresponsible scaremogering
with no evidential basis. It's interesting to note, however, that the
PWS website "comment" or "top story" has beaten something of a
retreat; I should imagine because they have been soundly appraised of
their ignorance.

Actually, I say "they" but I should say "he". PWS comprises
essentially one man with indescernible credentials and a conveyor belt
of fictional young female "assistant forecasters". The gardener is
real enough, though, and the two chaps might be, making their
contributions from afar.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Very true. I've drawn attention to the PWS' forecasting "team"s
composition before. They gain publicity by issuing ridiculous OTT
forecasts which the Daily Express uses for sensationalism and promptly
forgets about the next day.

Ignore them.

thats your forecast isnt it rodent
@T240

On 05/10/2011 1:38 PM, Dawlish wrote:
Well it won't be an old one, that's for sure.

Just how many mistakes is it possible to make in one article?

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...to-hit-Britain

Someone from PWS must be sleeping with the features editor. 8))
Thank goodness for the voice of reason from the MetO at the end.