GMCA

To be fair, the heat-health watch does say there's a 60% chance of these values being met, highlighting the uncertainty involved.

Care to remind us what the previous incident was?

...which is exactly what they've done in this article. You'll note there is one quote from someone at the Met seasonal forecasting team which is probably just a statement of fact about the average temp over the summer. That has been turned into 'defending their prediction' and 'claiming the bbq summer forecast was right'. The first rule of reading newspapers is assume they've made it up.

Ta for that! For the record I thought that two of the 'mistakes' where that there was one jet in the northern hemisphere, starting in Africa and spiralling north and that the jet 'ended' over the UK.

Hi Dave - can you tell me what you think the glaring inaccuracies were? I noticed a couple of things which I thought looked a bit shady but I want to be sure I heard them right before getting too grumpy