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 😆

@BarbaraHoward surely though anyone existing in the real world will have heard about the hurricane in Florida and realised that if that was genuinely going to happen in the UK it would have been all over the news? That they don't just pop up out of nowhere but grow and develop for a week before hand?

Not the first embarrassing glitch, evidently.

In June 2023, when daytime temperatures in the UK were in the 20s, the BBC app and website were forecasting 7 degrees C.

This one has much better jokes, though.

That must be wrong though - doesn't it always rain in Manchester??

I reckon bbc website has been hacked or it's a disgruntled employees last day at the Beeb 😁. There's a strapline on the website now saying they're looking to fix the weather report!

What do you think is more mortifying - making a mistake at a smaller place of work, and maybe all 100 colleagues knowing you've done it, or making a national mistake like this, and millions of people seeing it, but none of them knowing that it was you.... 🤔

(assuming both mistakes are just embarrassing, not dangerous or expensive etc)

Love it 😂 Beautiful bright sunshine too.

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Well you know I just put a puddlesuit on my preschooler and off we yomped - wind can be fun you know, you just need the right mindset.

Still 5737 here. Might hang my head out the window and get a free facelift from mother nature 😃

Dont we all just get out the big big coat?

I told DP about the wind this morning, he said he was cycling to work and instead of the usual 20 minutes it would take less than a minute with that wind behind him.
I didnt point out he might be cycling into it.

Nooo... don't get out the big, big coat - you'll blow away like you're wearing a built in parachute!

I see the BBC are now naming their weather data provider correctly - "Meteorological forecasting company DTN, which supplies BBC Weather with data".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kjrp2rngzo

The problem's taking some time to fix by the looks of things.

The metoffice must be laughing their socks off at the problems their rival has got!

It's still officially super windy here. But we both got back from work safely.
I couldn't wear my big, big coat cos the hi viz wont fit over it.
So just the big coat and a scarf. Sorted

It now has a message saying Sorry this forecast is wrong due to a data error Please ignore while we fix the problem.

No shit, Sherlock

Still 404 degrees and hurricanes in Johannesburg! My mother says she has been staying in the shade and so has survived.

Embarrassing for the BBC that it's taken so long to fix. I imagine everyone will be using alternative weather apps going forward.

I use the Weather & Radar app but always liked the BBC's interface.

It's all right, if you're a middle aged man or a postie, it's still 'shorts' weather! 💪

That's true! Instead of "Around the World in 80 Days" it would be "Around the World in 0.80 seconds". 😳😉

Once, in my state, the weather board showed the temperature for the next day of 846 degrees F., for a town about 45 miles from us. I was worried that my A/C would be running an awful lot, but then figured I'd save money just cooking food outside on the sidewalk.😉

I love weather "whoopsies", they always make my day!

Thank you all for sharing your wind speeds. I hope you all remained safe and got your wash dried super quick. 😎😆

Ours says sunny and light…erm…nope!!

Same for me in the northeast

Jesus how have you not blown away 🤣

@itwasnevermine i know mind about 3 yr ago i did have a big tree land on my house after a big storm so nothing would surprise me here 😂

I'm sure the eco-cassandras at Al-BBC were crestfallen that the 1,400 mph hurricanes were only a product of a fault in their app.

LOL, at those wind speeds, there would be nothing left but bedrock! Jes' sayin'