BBC "Verify"

[jack.h...@gmail.com]

You just have to love this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckmmkdr0m2po

In particular "Much of June experienced temperatures about 2C (35.6F)  lower than average

So-called BBC "Verify".

Jack

[Metman2012]

At least they've now corrected it, Though I always have a smile when something that is 'about' is converted to something that is precise - 'about 3.6F' or better 'about 3.5F'. Better still, don't bother!

[jack.h...@gmail.com]

I don't just laugh at stupid conversions - I get hot under the collar : visibility as low as 100 metres (328.1 feet).

My father was fine with words - as would be expected from the chief reporter at the Great Yarmouth office of the Eastern Daily Press - but he was totally ignorant of any scientific matters.  He once wrote to the effect "That it has been so cold that Hickling Broad froze from the bottom".

Another story he told me was that on one occasion, as a very junior reporter, he and a colleague went chasing an apparent fire to the northwest of Yarmouth.  Unsurprisingly no luck : it was aurora.

Jack

[Ashley haworth-roberts]

I may have read the incorrect version when I looked in the early hours. Jack reports that it read '35.6 F' rather than '3.6 F'. It looks to me like that may have been a typing error by someone that wasn't picked up in any proof-reading. (The alternative being that Simon King and Marco Silva don't really know what they are talking about - which is what the trolls would have people believe.) 

[jack.h...@gmail.com]

You can be sure that the draft article by the professional meteorologists just gave degrees C.
Someone on the editorial staff simply (and unnecessarily) converted 2 C and came up with 35.6 F. (probably using Google)
That would have been correct had it been referring to an actual temperature of 2 C (ie, just above freezing) but the wrong conversion for a difference of 2 C (which is 3.6 F).

They just dont learn em proper @ skool these days.

Jack

[Graham Easterling]

BBC 'Verify' (which is often a load of c**P) is wrong in any case.

See last months anomalies for stations across the country

https://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/PREV.html

Graham

Penzance

[Ashley haworth-roberts]

In reply to Jack:

I think I may have inadvertently transposed figures! For the elimination of doubt:

2.0 Celsius equals 35.6 Fahrenheit and 2.5 C equals 36.5 F.

[Ashley haworth-roberts]

Sorry - the transposition in question was in a separate email chain (Trevor Harley was one recipient as well as the BBC authors). 2.0 C does convert to 35.6 C as a recorded temperature.

[Freddie]

I don't think they were wrong, it was just a poor sentence.  My anomaly was around -2 till the 24th or 25th, which was most of June.  It finished at -0.4 due to the very warm last week.  So their quote was factually reasonable.

[Len]

The convention is 2 degC  when it is a difference.

Not a lot of people know that!

Len

Wembury