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[Philthy]

The Express has a history of printing these sensationalist (and almost always wildly inaccurate) weather predictions. When challenged on why they do this, the paper has freely admitted it's because such stories increase their daily circulation by on average 10% (I think that's right). I'd be of the opinion that if they've exaggerated one item, what else are they stretching the truth on? And then I'd buy a paper with a bit more credibility, so it doesn't seem like a great strategy overall.

I don't rate the BBC forecasts either.
TheWeatherOutlook - latest UK weather forecasts, reports and news is my go to weather service.
Sky is usually pretty good too.

[Madasafish]

Put bluntly, anyone who believes a weather forecast published in any newspaper really needs a reality check...that is the kindest way I can put it..

The worst I have read is this from the Independent from..2000.


"Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past" http://tinyurl.com/yz8urac


Needless to say, it was wrong in 2000 and is still wrong.

British weather is impacted by so many major factors that forecating the future more than a few hours into the future is of debatable accuracy..depending on the various variables.

Newspaper headlines are designed to sell papers to muppets in my jaundiced opinion.

Bah humbug...

[Gillykat]

I work in a newsagents and have to laugh at some of the Express' headlines A few years back you could virtually guarantee it would be either some conspiracy theory about Princess Diana OR extreme weather. Nowadays it seems to be weather or health scares