The press have gone mad...
 

Watching the news tonight (Central) they are spending far to much time
talking about the weather.. They have even setup a phone line called
"Flakewatch" where you can send a text in to say you have seen a flake of
snow.. one woman was quoted as saying she had seen 12 flakes in Shropshire..

Now I do like a bit of snow, but the media hype is really starting to get on
my nerves..

Steve


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The press have gone mad...
 

Same on North West Tonight, at the end the presenter read out an e-mail from
a viewer saying how he couldnt believe how over the top tonights show was
regarding the weather.

"Steve @ The UK Speedtrap Guide" wrote in
message ...
Watching the news tonight (Central) they are spending far to much time
talking about the weather.. They have even setup a phone line called
"Flakewatch" where you can send a text in to say you have seen a flake of
snow.. one woman was quoted as saying she had seen 12 flakes in
Shropshire..

Now I do like a bit of snow, but the media hype is really starting to get
on
my nerves..

Steve


--
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"The UK Weather Guide" @ http://www.ukstorms.com

The press have gone mad...
 

"Robert" wrote in message
...
Same on North West Tonight, at the end the presenter read out an e-mail
from
a viewer saying how he couldnt believe how over the top tonights show
was
regarding the weather.


Terrible wasn't it Robert. From interviews with Asda employees in
Blackburn,
to even sending a reporter out with a gritter. I liked how Nichola Dixon
said
"I think we are getting a little excited" at the end of it all. However,
great report
on the Lake District mountain weather station and also the fantastic views
of
the Isle of Skye.

Joe

The press have gone mad...
 

Yeah that was interesting going up to the weather station but I just
couldn't believe the hype at the beginning and talking about schools being
closed at radio lancashire HQ was just taking it to the extreme.

Robert
East Lancashire

"Joe Hunt" wrote in message
...

"Robert" wrote in message
...
Same on North West Tonight, at the end the presenter read out an e-mail
from
a viewer saying how he couldnt believe how over the top tonights show
was
regarding the weather.


Terrible wasn't it Robert. From interviews with Asda employees in
Blackburn,
to even sending a reporter out with a gritter. I liked how Nichola Dixon
said
"I think we are getting a little excited" at the end of it all. However,
great report
on the Lake District mountain weather station and also the fantastic views
of
the Isle of Skye.

Joe

The press have gone mad...
 

I think the media have lost the plot nowadays when it comes to the
weather, just wait for the blame culture bit after the event, which
ever way it goes!

Keith (Southend)

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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:17:23 -0000, "Robert"
wrote:

Yeah that was interesting going up to the weather station but I just
couldn't believe the hype at the beginning and talking about schools being
closed at radio lancashire HQ was just taking it to the extreme.

Robert
East Lancashire

"Joe Hunt" wrote in message
...

"Robert" wrote in message
...
Same on North West Tonight, at the end the presenter read out an e-mail
from
a viewer saying how he couldnt believe how over the top tonights show
was
regarding the weather.


Terrible wasn't it Robert. From interviews with Asda employees in
Blackburn,
to even sending a reporter out with a gritter. I liked how Nichola Dixon
said
"I think we are getting a little excited" at the end of it all. However,
great report
on the Lake District mountain weather station and also the fantastic views
of
the Isle of Skye.

Joe

The press have gone mad...
 

"Steve @ The UK Speedtrap Guide" wrote in
message ...
Watching the news tonight (Central) they are spending far to much time
talking about the weather.. They have even setup a phone line called
"Flakewatch" where you can send a text in to say you have seen a flake of
snow.. one woman was quoted as saying she had seen 12 flakes in
Shropshire..

Now I do like a bit of snow, but the media hype is really starting to get
on
my nerves..

Steve


--
"The UK SpeedTrap Guide" @ http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk
"The UK Weather Guide" @ http://www.ukstorms.com


I'm just ever glad I stopped buying any newspaper over 1 year ago precisely
because of the increasing hype by any of them over anything. It's bad enough
having to hear second hand about their current hype over a bit of ordinary
winter weather without having it thrust in my face as the front page story
in a newspaper. I hate to think how they'd handle '63, '79 or even the short
cold spells of '87/'91 now!.

1991 was bad enough at the time, even in the broadsheets, for a couple of cm
of snow which did not survive the whole of the following weekend where I was
at the time in Kilmarnock.

BTW, here in Malvern, clear sky until about 15 mins ago, some cloud
spreading from N. The 21:00 satellite picture and 20:00 radar suggest this
may be the leading edge of the main disturbance. At least the clear sky will
have lead to some ground cooling ahead so what falls may lie rather than
melting, only to re-freeze behind the disturbance in the clearing sky.

--
Pete

Please take my dog out twice to e-mail

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