"Barbecue summer could return" runs a cautiously optimistic online Daily Telegraph headline this morning. Since its information comes from a Met. Office report, maybe it's time to get out the thermals…
The Met. Office now seems to be blaming the media for misinterpreting its summer forecast, resulting in public "misconceptions" that the weather was to be largely hot and dry. The media does indeed get things wrong from time to time, but as noted in an earlier post, the Met. Office unambigously stated in its "Summer Forecast 2009" that "Summer temperatures across the UK are likely to be warmer than average and rainfall near or below average for the three months of summer". Instead of blaming the media for spreading ill-founded hope, perhaps the Met. Office should make sure its published reports leave no possible room for doubt.
The Met. Office now seems to be blaming the media for misinterpreting its summer forecast, resulting in public "misconceptions" that the weather was to be largely hot and dry. The media does indeed get things wrong from time to time, but as noted in an earlier post, the Met. Office unambigously stated in its "Summer Forecast 2009" that "Summer temperatures across the UK are likely to be warmer than average and rainfall near or below average for the three months of summer". Instead of blaming the media for spreading ill-founded hope, perhaps the Met. Office should make sure its published reports leave no possible room for doubt.
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