Britain has more weather forecasters than any other
country in the world. One quarter of the entire workforce is employed
at the Met Office and they all take it in turns to present the forecast,
which is shown after every programme on TV (apart from on the Weather
Channel where it is the only programme).
Unfortunately for all
the forecasters, there are only four types of weather in Britain: lovely
and sunny (August), rainy (spring), snowy (every second February) and a
bit chilly (all the rest of the time), so there is a lot of repetition.
Yet despite all the frantic arm waving, manic grinning, and
pseudo-scientific waffle, the only certainty about the weather forecast
is that it will be wrong.
The last time I trusted Michael Fish, I
left home in shorts and a t-shirt and caught pneumonia before I could
finish my Cornetto.
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And now the latest weather report
from the Met Office: It is currently a bit chilly, and it will remain
that way until next April.
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