Weather in the general media (Newspaper features etc)

[The PIT]

Oh dear looks like ti will break down by 5th of October and no sign of 23C

[Norrance]

23.2C in Aboyne yesterday. I hope that their Winter forecast is as accurate

[Methuselah]

Ok, but as humans, we can distinguish the two root causes of CO2 in the atmosphere. As you say, natural and man made. Aside from CO2, there are plenty of other elements which are IMO, worse than CO2 such as NOXs and Ozones. CO2 can be moped up by organic life, these other elements will hang around and cause damage to the environment.

I agree with you. I recommend y'all watch this: http://www.netflix.com/watch/80033772?trackId=14170151&tctx=6%252C3%252Cb5b4383b-5660-47b8-8170-f7ba50e3aa13-950297

[Timmytour]

Wish we had weather forecasts like this that talked about the different models where they disagreed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=72&v=nbV19qbcS2k

[Roger J Smith]

The Daily Stun

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Britain to be rocked by six months of weather

 

 

 

The Daily Stun has learned that Britain now faces six months of weather that may be the most concentrated six months of weather since April to September of this year.

 

 

According to senior forecaster Corblimey Crisp of Post-traumatic Weather Partners, an unusual pattern of water in the North Atlantic could "very easily" add moisture to the atmosphere, resulting in what Crisp called "clouds -- excuse the jargon, to the average layperson, the grey stuff that hides the horizon."

 

 

Crisp went on to explain that air does not just sit around doing nothing, it moves from one place to another. "Once again, apologies for the jargon, but we airologists call this phenomenon wind. Think of it this way, if you're in a boat and the engine fails, the boat will still move somewhere, because the water is moving. This is because somebody dumped a lot of currants into the ocean and they bang against the side of the boat, forcing it to move. The atmosphere is the same way. Now that we have airplanes, the air moves too, because airplanes force it to start moving."

 

Reg Crock of the Theoretical Institute for Raising Taxes said that concern was "only growing" by this phenomenon of days becoming consecutive. "First you have just days, then weeks, fortnights, and then months. Somewhere in there, the government should get concerned and raise taxes, just in case that stops it from happening."

 

Professor I. Shudanowanbetr of the Russian Academy of Pretend Sciences said that methane seeping out of collapsing ancient alien astronaut bases under the permafrost of the O'no-Notnow region north of the Putin Circle might be "the most significant cause of global warming, other than American cars which we all want to see gone."

 

A spokesman for the U.K. Met Office said that budgetary cutbacks meant that he had no idea when he might call back.

 

Last winter, there were dire predictions of 120 days of blizzards. This apparently verified, although on top of a mountain in Alaska rather than in Birmingham. One source commented that there was "not that much difference" between these two locations, other than geographic position. The same source, when pressed to give a retrospective overview of the season that might be more accurate than 120 days of blizzards, said "a whole lot of nothing."

 

The forecast for this weekend is a whole lot of nothing, followed by a minor example of something, then a return to intervals of nothing, something, and whatever. The next actual weather event is expected to be in November.

 

-- Staff and Senior Reporter Dodger McKillayuppee

[knocker]

GFS bashing makes the NYT

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/upshot/hurricane-joaquin-forecast-european-model-leads-pack-again.html?_r=1

[chris pawsey]

I've seen recently a number of articles from the daily express saying we will be having a really cold winter with heavy snow ect... I never listen or take on board anything they say, one time in a million they will be right. But as a matter of interest will the stronger than usual el-nino effect this winters weather more than the last few?

[cotswoldsnow]

much as i like our media, and have worked in it for years, it really doesnt get weather reporting right. the express is a joke and they know it.i think the independent seems the most measured. well done them

[Ravelin]

A little weather story from today's Sunday Post...

TV weather forecasters drive nuts when they continually get it wrong.

Help, though, is at hand - from Mother Nature's busy little bees!

It seems bees are narrowing the entries to thier hives to keep in the heat, and the last time they did that was before the harsh winter of 2010.

So, to bees on the safe side, look out your snow shovels - a winter Armageddon is on its way.

Edited October 4, 2015 by Ravelin

[Nick L]

much as i like our media, and have worked in it for years, it really doesnt get weather reporting right. the express is a joke and they know it.i think the independent seems the most measured. well done them

 

The Express (and other tabloids) have no interest in getting it right. They purely make up sensationalist, dangerous BS to sell papers.

[knocker]

Yet another example of how certain areas of the media deliberately mislead on important issues.

 

Factcheck: Aerosols research misinterpreted to 'alarming extent’, says study author

 

http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2015/10/factcheck-aerosols-research-misinterpreted/?utm_source=Daily+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=c46c21c58a-cb_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_876aab4fd7-c46c21c58a-303447709

[ClaireAnderson]

The man is a genius... http://twitpic.com/6ray3m

 

Thanks for sharing!

[Summer Sun]

Britain facing SNOW within two weeks as Arctic blast swoops in from east

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britain-facing-snow-within-two-6601591

[Bobafet]

Put this in the winter thread but probably this is the best place for it.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6682889/Its-Octobrrrrrrr.html

[seaside 60]

Lol even more funny is that in the replies at the bottom, the MO are getting the slagging off even though they are not even mentioned.
There really should be a fine every time a tabloid publishes this type of crap, even the most devout Mirror/Express reader must by past this sort of rubbish.

[bryan629]

FOUR MONTHS OF HEAVY SNOW: Shock UK long-range weather forecast for THIS winter BRITAIN should prepare for the worst winter in half-a-century with advanced weather models now predicting MONTHS of heavy snowfall, forecasters warned tonight.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/611100/Winter-2015-Heavy-Snow-record-cold-weather-forecast-UK

 

 

Just some more utter drivel to add to our amusement 

Edited October 9, 2015 by bryan629

[IanR]

this could be their year  , surely they have to get it right at some point, well not right in the sense of a rational prediction,   just sheer co incidence

[seaside 60]

Worse winter for 50 years hardly means much.

Worse winter for 100/200 years sounds much better.....

Didn't they run with this last week.????

[Summer Sun]

Once one starts they all start.....

 

Oh snow! Winter to bite back as Arctic blast is on the way

 

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/469324/winter-bite-back-Arctic-blast-on-way

[snowtimenow]

Once one starts they all start.....

 

Oh snow! Winter to bite back as Arctic blast is on the way

 

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/469324/winter-bite-back-Arctic-blast-on-way

 

 

 

OMG!! this really frustrates me because people still actually believe it,  they get right sucked right into it. 

[Wildswimmer Pete]

Worse winter for 50 years hardly means much.

Worse winter for 100/200 years sounds much better.....

Didn't they run with this last week.????

Yes, precisely 53 years.  However 1981/82 was almost as bad as 1962/63.  I wasn't around in 1947.

[Froze were the Days]

FOUR MONTHS OF HEAVY SNOW: Shock UK long-range weather forecast for THIS winter BRITAIN should prepare for the worst winter in half-a-century with advanced weather models now predicting MONTHS of heavy snowfall, forecasters warned tonight.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/611100/Winter-2015-Heavy-Snow-record-cold-weather-forecast-UK

 

 

Just some more utter drivel to add to our amusement 

The biggest shock for me would be if Madden's name wasn't there as the 'forecaster' behind these headlines. Time and time again he is wrong, obviously The Express have forgotten already about his 'very warm and sunny August that he predicted at the end of July'.

Edited October 10, 2015 by Froze were the Days

[Summer Sun]

The biggest shock for me would be if Madden's name wasn't there as the 'forecaster' behind these headlines. Time and time again he is wrong, obviously The Express have forgotten already about his 'very warm and sunny August that he predicted at the end of July'.

 

Same old rubbish every year

 

2013 - http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/436170/Worst-winter-for-decades-Record-breaking-snow-predicted-for-November

 

2014 - http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/520672/Winter-weather-2014-UK-forecast-cold-snow-November

 

2015 - http://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/611100/Winter-2015-Heavy-Snow-record-cold-weather-forecast-UK

 

For the past 3 years those stories have all gone online and in print between the 10th and 12th of October as well

[Richard Taylor]

Tabloids on the wind up? Surely not!

[pip22]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/swans-early-arrival-russia-means-6623451?ICID=FB_mirror_main

 

Swans' early arrival from Russia means UK is in for bitter winter

 

The earliest recorded autumn arrival of a migratory swan at a UK nature reserve has added to speculation the country is in for a long, cold winter .

Edited October 13, 2015 by pip22