BBC Weather warning for the UK!

Kainz · 14 Aug 2008 at 06:21

Heavy Rain apparently! :rolleyes:

Am I the only one who is getting sick of these warnings being sprout out by the BBC Weather team lately? Gee, a little bit of rain and we get weather warnings. Argh!

Spektor · 14 Aug 2008 at 07:20

They didn't declare a state of emergency or some kind of apocalyptic scenario... they have just said its going to rain, which is a warning.

vincent1989 · 14 Aug 2008 at 07:21

any weather warning in this country is a severe one as the whole transport infrastructure goes to pot

Mad old tory · 14 Aug 2008 at 07:28

It's because certain areas are so prone to flooding these days, no doubt due to excessive building on floodplains.

Tom0 · 14 Aug 2008 at 07:45

The BBC weather has become as sensationalist as the news tbh.

#Chri5# · 14 Aug 2008 at 09:32

Aren't the weather warnings issued by the Met Office, so the Beeb weather is just passing that on?

Bill101 · 14 Aug 2008 at 09:47

they should just loop this

kefkef · 14 Aug 2008 at 09:50

#Chri5# said:
Aren't the weather warnings issued by the Met Office, so the Beeb weather is just passing that on?

Yep. Go to www.metoffice.gov.uk and you can see that a weather warning has been issued for NI & NE England/Scotland

bledd · 14 Aug 2008 at 09:59

Bill101 said:
they should just loop this

lol

i don't have sound on my work pc, but i know he says

"it's goin' rain"

Ben M · 14 Aug 2008 at 10:47

it's sunny here...

Sh3rlock · 14 Aug 2008 at 11:05

Same, i dont know what there on about.

I could catch a tan with the amount of sun were having atm.

MookJong · 14 Aug 2008 at 11:10

Sandbags at the ready...

Meridian · 14 Aug 2008 at 14:17

Because of the BBC did not issue a warning and someone got flooded then they would get even more complaints.

M

Andrew_McP · 14 Aug 2008 at 14:24

To be fair I think the problem they're having is that as our climate changes (and it certainly seems to have changed in my lifetime) severe local conditions are becoming more frequent. So as soon as they see a chance of more flooding, they put out a warning which has to be fairly general... a weather system's only got to sneeze and it can piddle on someone else's parade rather than the predicted target.

It must be a really tricky time to be in the forecasting business. Not that it's ever simple.

Andrew McP

Gaverick · 14 Aug 2008 at 14:30

Well all the recent rain will have saturated the ground, so any more rain and we are very prone to flooding.

sanofi · 14 Aug 2008 at 14:39

For a period of 5-10 mins, that heavy rain warning was justified just now.

Berserker · 14 Aug 2008 at 15:11

I think most people would much rather they got too many warnings than too few. Anyone remember Michael Fish?

Of course, if they overdo it, no-one will believe them, so it's a balance.

Jebblehmoo · 14 Aug 2008 at 15:17

I can never rely on weather reports really anymore.

I just look out of the window and hope for the best in this country ><

Kainz · 14 Aug 2008 at 15:28

Jebblehmoo said:
I can never rely on weather reports really anymore.

I just look out of the window and hope for the best in this country ><

Thats what I do lol, but there's a hottie female forecaster on the BBC News at around 06:15 so I always pay attention

I just look out the window now.

Locky · 14 Aug 2008 at 15:34

We get the odd heavey shower........ its omgz END OF THE WORLD......... Nooooooo