By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
Yet another climate lie from the BBC:
When dangerous weather is forecast, a weather warning will be issued.
The warnings are provided by the Met Office, the UK’s national weather service – and are designed to help us plan ahead and stay safe from the hazardous impacts of severe weather.
Eight different types of weather are covered: rain, snow, wind, thunderstorms, lightning, fog, ice, and extreme heat.
Extreme heat warnings are the newest type. They were introduced in 2021, as a response to our changing climate and the effects that heat can have on our health and infrastructure.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c870n009jrgo
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That final sentence is an outright lie – it was not introduced as a response to changing climate. As for the ridiculous comment about “heat”, why is a warning now being issued about snow?
But don’t take my word for it – this is what the Met Office themselves say about their warnings:
History of Met Office weather warnings
The National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS) began in 1988 as a threshold-based service following the Great Storm of 1987. This service involved Met Office meteorologists monitoring the weather and issuing warnings when certain weather thresholds, or levels, were reached.
As the service evolved over the years, we researched and listened to feedback from our broad range of users including emergency responders, members of the public and the media. It became clear that people did not need to know if there would be 40 mm of rain, for example, but instead it was more important for them to know how weather conditions would affect them. Based on this feedback from our users, we moved to an impact-based warning service in 2011.
In 2015, we again carried out more research, going back to the emergency responders, members of the public and the media with two aims. Firstly, we wanted to benchmark the warning service, making sure that it was continuing to work effectively and efficiently and serving the different needs of our various users. Secondly, we wanted to identify any potential improvements.
Feedback from this research focussed our work around two key areas: increasing the scope of the weather warnings and improving the way we communicate severe weather and impacts.
What changed?
Fundamentally, our warnings have not changed; we continue to issue them when the combination of severe weather impacts and the likelihood of these impacts occurring meet the criteria for a warning. However, we have enhanced the way users can access, understand and use our warnings.
We have improved the visual design of warnings across all of our channels from our website and app to Hazard Manager, a specialist product used by emergency responders.
We have also done lots of work behind the scenes bringing greater resilience to our production system as well as improving the efficiency and speed at which warnings can be prepared, issued and delivered.
In short, weather warnings were officially introduced in 1988, and have evolved over time to improve the way they are comminicated.
Another complaint will be winging its way to the BBC this afternoon!
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