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UK facing heavist snowfall in years

Covered End
Covered End Posts: 51,989
edited September 2016 in Other Football and Sports
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1852997/uk-facing-heaviest-snowfall-in-years-as-the-countrys-first-icy-blast-arrives-in-just-six-weeks/ :-)
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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    Covered End said:

    www.thesun.co.uk/news/1852997/uk-facing-heaviest-snowfall-in-years-as-the-countrys-first-icy-blast-arrives-in-just-six-weeks/ :-)

    thanks for cheering us all up CE .. something other than 1-1 and 0-0 games to look forward to ((:>)
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    not again. that's at least the last 6 years they' ve warned about this, one year they'll get it right and be all smug about it
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,989
    ValleyGary said:

    Was expecting a link to The Express. They release that story every two months. The Sun isn't much better mind.

    Play the game Gal.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited September 2016
    Great news. I love it when kids spending hours building snow man, only for a stray dog to come along and have a leak over it.

    Happened years ago, my son (then 3 or 4) was absolutely distraught. I wouldn't mind it was me who spent hours building it.
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    My fir cone must be playing up, it says rain.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,595
    ricky_otto said:

    Great news. I love it when kids spending hours building snow man, only for me to come along and have a leak over it.

    Happened years ago, my son (then 3 or 4) was absolutely distraut. I wouldn't mind it was me who spent hours building it.

  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    Without even looking at it I can tell you that the story will contain quotes from 'James Madden' of Exacta Weather.

    This company literally exists to provide headlines for the Express, Sun and Mail. Search 'Exacta weather the truth behind the headlines' for more info.

    It boggles the mind that the media are allowed to print this tripe as 'news'. It belongs in the same part of the paper as the horoscopes and Roy of the Rovers
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  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    Without even looking at it I can tell you that the story will contain quotes from 'James Madden' of Exacta Weather.

    This company literally exists to provide headlines for the Express, Sun and Mail. Search 'Exacta weather the truth behind the headlines' for more info.

    It boggles the mind that the media are allowed to print this tripe as 'news'. It belongs in the same part of the paper as the horoscopes and Roy of the Rovers

    Pretty sure that, based on pre-summer press reports, we are now supposedly approaching the end of the hottest summer in history.

    Looking out the window or doing the "red sky at night" rhyme are the only forecasts I give any credence to.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,890
    Knew I shouldn't have voted Brexit.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,997
    I predict a heatwave
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    ricky_otto said:

    Great news. I love it when kids spending hours building snow man, only for a stray dog to come along and have a leak over it.

    Happened years ago, my son (then 23 or 24) was absolutely distraut. I wouldn't mind it was me who spent hours building it.

    ;)
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    Without even looking at it I can tell you that the story will contain quotes from 'James Madden' of Exacta Weather.

    This company literally exists to provide headlines for the Express, Sun and Mail. Search 'Exacta weather the truth behind the headlines' for more info.

    It boggles the mind that the media are allowed to print this tripe as 'news'. It belongs in the same part of the paper as the horoscopes and Roy of the Rovers

    It seems it is doubtful that Mr Madden has any qualifications! Has anybody seen him and Thomas Driesen in the same room......
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,911
    Fucks sake Pritchard
  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,881
    Is the on the back of the prediction of the hottest summer ever ?
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    No snow in Bexley at the moment.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    DaveMehmet said:

    ricky_otto said:

    Great news. I love it when kids spending hours building snow man, only for me to come along and have a leak over it.

    Happened years ago, my son (then 3 or 4) was absolutely distraut. I wouldn't mind it was me who spent hours building it.

    T.C.E said:

    ricky_otto said:

    Great news. I love it when kids spending hours building snow man, only for a stray dog to come along and have a leak over it.

    Happened years ago, my son (then 23 or 24) was absolutely distraut. I wouldn't mind it was me who spent hours building it.

    ;)
    Bollocks to the pair of you. :wink:
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    ricky_otto said:

    DaveMehmet said:

    ricky_otto said:

    Great news. I love it when kids spending hours building snow man, only for me to come along and have a leak over it.

    Happened years ago, my son (then 3 or 4) was absolutely distraut. I wouldn't mind it was me who spent hours building it.

    T.C.E said:

    ricky_otto said:

    Great news. I love it when kids spending hours building snow man, only for a stray dog to come along and have a leak over it.

    Happened years ago, my son (then 23 or 24) was absolutely distraut. I wouldn't mind it was me who spent hours building it.

    ;)
    Bollocks to the pair of you. :wink:
    Where's Admin @i_b_b_o_r_g have a word, the language is a bit ripe. ;)
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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,595
    6 inches in Bexley (not snowing though)
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    Good job I tuck my bell end in my socks... hate a cold tip!
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,601
    Just checked, nothing yet. But council are gritting just in case.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    James Madden, forecaster for Exacta Weather, said the country could be plagued by heavy and persistent snow broken up by storms and heavy rain for up to four months.

    “Despite the much warmer than average but unsettled summer and the warm start to autumn, people should not be lulled into a false sense of security,” he said.


    Just for Leroy
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    DaveMehmet said:

    2 inches in Bexley (not snowing though)

  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    DaveMehmet said:

    6 inches in Bexley (not snowing though)

    Pizza Hut?
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    Article slagging off Exacta Weather back in 2012

    What's behind the 'coldest winter for 100 years' headline?
    Monday 19 November 2012, 15:16


    Paul Hudson
    COMMENTS
    Those of us with a keen interest in the weather can't fail to have noticed yet another headline in the Express this weekend, claiming this winter would be the coldest in 100 years, which you can see here.

    Wherever I went this weekend, I've been stopped in the street by people asking me when the awful weather is likely to hit, whether they should buy winter tyres for the car, or go ahead with a planned visit to relatives at Christmas.

    The headline in the Express came courtesy of little known 'Exacta Weather', a tiny private weather company, which bases its forecasts on, amongst other things, variations in solar output.

    But the headline this weekend is almost identical to the one from this time last year, in which the same 'Exacta Weather' forecasted severe wintry conditions throughout last winter, leading to yet another front page headline in the Express.

    In the end, last winter was milder than average.
    Exacta Weather is by no means the only company to issue such forecasts.

    The headline in the Express is one of over twenty in the newspaper in recent times, all claiming severe or extreme conditions were about to befall us, each one of them the result of press releases from small, private weather companies, and most of which turned out to be wrong or exaggerated.

    So what's going on?

    When I worked at the Met Office some years ago, I remember the press office contacted a tabloid newspaper to ask why they continued to print such weather stories which invariably turned out to be wrong.

    Their answer was very honest, straightforward and unapologetic.

    Weather sells newspapers they said; admitting that each and every time they had a front page story on extreme weather, their circulation went up by around 10%.

    Whether the forecast was right or wrong didn't seem a concern, after all, the newspaper was only reporting on what was being forecast by the weather company in question. How did they know whether it would turn out to be right or wrong?

    And one would assume that any small private weather company, in a difficult completely un-regulated sector which is dominated by the state-funded Met Office, is happy to get some free, valuable publicity.

    So it's a mutually beneficial process.

    The losers, of course, are the readers, and more importantly the whole weather industry itself, which gets tarred with the same brush as those who issue extreme, sensationalist forecasts, which rarely bare any resemblance to reality.
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    edited September 2016
    It's almost as though the media treat the average reader like they were born yesterday. Recycle the same old shit because our readers are too stupid. No, it's because these so called journalists have run out of celebrity gossip and can't be arsed to find some proper fucking news to write about.
  • AddickFC81
    AddickFC81 Posts: 4,053
    It's about column inches. Total bollocks.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,668
    soapy_jones said:

    Good job I tuck my bell end in my socks... hate a cold tip!

    Get down the Miller's mate you're gonna get raped

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