BBC Weather - Hurricane force winds across UK

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This came as a bit of a surprise this morning! I've been outside and it's definitely a bit drizzly but no wind to speak of. I think someone at BBCW has pressed the wrong button 😆

@Chersfrozenface seeing as the BBC weather app displays the weather as it is on the main face, and then the forecast underneath, I think people would be able to tell there's no hurricane on the way.

That and the fact that it's not been mentioned at all? Surely nobody fell for this.

Surrey/Hants borders have 15300k mph. Is it safe to take my teen to college later? We’ve actually got 100% attendance record so far this term… first time in years!!

This. It has taken a shockingly long time for them to put up that minimal banner. People might well be expecting hurricane force winds to arrive in the next hour and change their plans/make preparations. Maybe these changes to their day matter very little in the scheme of things but when your business is weather prediction you lose credibility. So you would expect a more explicit warning within minutes of the issue being spotted, and wind speed predictions disabled until the app can be corrected.

@GillBeck again that is on them. Surely you'd check another forecast given the complete random nature of this forecast?

So you are saying people shouldn’t trust the app for forecasts? What then is the point of it? As I say, it loses credibility.

@GillBeck I'm saying that when there is an obvious error (which this one is), you should then check another app? No other app is showing this as a possibility so it just takes a little bit of critical thinking.

It’s all over the world, not just the UK.

The wind speeds are obvious but the term ‘hurricane force winds’ is not. We do get strong wind storms at this time of year, including Storm Babet on 18 October last year.

15 thousand miles/h?
Not that houses wouldn't be standing as a PP suggested, we would all be gone.
Possibly on Jupiter, but still doubt it 😳😁

They’re testing the “frighten the pants off the public” button, they must have forgotten to switch it off before people woke up.

@GillBeck again, there has been no mention of it on the news.

If there was genuinely to be a hurricane that affected the whole of the UK, that would have been publicised. It just takes an ounce of critical thinking.

Neptune gets winds of 1200 mph. Jupiter’s are barely half that.

This is precisely what I foresee with the “emergency alerts”, mistakes like this.

Well, quite.

Mind you, I always use the Met Office site anyway. The BBC has been a bit crap for ages - quite possibly since it went with MeteoGroup, now DTN.

15,262mph where I am. Might hang some washing out, it'll be dry in a minute. 😂

Again you are suggesting the app needs to be triangulated against other sources, that it is unreliable. That it is not credible. Fine, delete it and go with the met office. The BBC could save the money.

@GillBeck I think you're extrapolating a lot from a single mistake.

Does a mistake means it's no longer credible? That's for you to decide. But that doesn't negate the fact that when something like that appears on your phone with no warning, you should check it rather than believing it as blind truth.

Remember folks, there's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing
I always check the forecast before deciding what shoes to wear for my run. I started to regret this morning's choice of diving boots after about a mile - and I had been hoping for a PB what with the 466 mph tailwind and all.

Not the mistake. The lack of response to it by BBC weather.

Do you honestly think people would be daft enough to think we would get wind speeds in the thousands of mph?

Nobody is that bad.

@GillBeck clearly somethi quite significant has gone wrong. Quite unfortunate for the BBC but mistakes happen.

Its a bug in thier software!
Software wrtten b humans 🤣

BBC weater

*software written by humans

I was saying the same this morning, I'm surprised they didn't just stop the app.

Very well tested software by the looks of it.

I know it's all about Continuous Deployment these days, but at least properly test the bloody code.