Daily Express is snow obsessed

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Dramatises the mundane to sell papers.
 
The Express has been bad weather obsessed for ages, "KILLER STORMS" are forecast virtually every week by them.

Weren't they forecasting -30°C snowstorms a few weeks ago.
 
www.metcheck.com issued an alert a day or two ago warning there could be snowfall for a while across southern/central parts of the UK tomorrow.

Although I think the Express is over egging it a bit.
 
It s difficult to believe the date when its printed in the rag that is The Express.
 
Russ77 said:
www.metcheck.com issued an alert a day or two ago warning there could be snowfall for a while across southern/central parts of the UK tomorrow.

Although I think the Express is over egging it a bit.
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That explains it then :)

Bit of snow it that there London and the worlds going to end (according to the media)
 
We have lots of the raw ingredients for snow but it's in the wrong form.

We had so much rain last night that our local railway station looks like a canal and a recreation ground looks like a lake.

No chance of snow in my opinion.


Steve.
 
Some places will see a few flakes fall, but what are they on about "First White Christmas in Decades"?
Surely most places have seen one or two recently.
 
Steve Smith said:
We have lots of the raw ingredients for snow but it's in the wrong form.

We had so much rain last night that our local railway station looks like a canal and a recreation ground looks like a lake.

No chance of snow in my opinion.


Steve.
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It took me 3.5 hours to drive home earlier, a journey that normally takes 1 hour max. Thanks to a roundabout on a main arterial route that was 8-12" underwater.
 
We've had lots of snow here today. It's that special type of unfrozen snow called rain.
 
Pookeyhead said:
Seriously... is it some "in" joke amongst their editors or what?
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No, it is made-up tripe.

Read George Monbiot's* column on Positive Weather Services, run by one Johnathan Powell, formerly used by both the Mail and Express as the source for any number of their extreme weather stories which don't bear any relation to reality, and what happened when he called PWS out on claiming to employ 'Meteorologists' who didn't actually exist...

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/jan/26/weather-forecasters-daily-mail

On short, Powell closed PWS when the questions got too awkward.

He the reappeared as Vantage Weather Services, and continues regularly to be quoted as the source of weather predictions, by the Express, such as this from the end of November warning we shall have a "unprecedented SIX MONTH winter" with "relentless heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures could last until MAY" (their caps)

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/44...storms-and-Arctic-winds-could-last-SIX-months

You will also commonly see the source of the Express stories being quoted as James Madden of Exacta Weather, who seem to have an equally comfortable position, supplying alarmist weather headlines to Desmond's rag.

* I'm far from being the greatest fan of George Monbiot, but this is worth reading.
 
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Some other Vantage Weather stories in the Express

12 October: Worst winter for decades: Record-breaking snow predicted for November

The Express said:
Long-range forecasters blamed the position of a fast-flowing band of air known as the jet stream near to Britain and high pressure for the extreme conditions. Jonathan Powell, forecaster for Vantage Weather Services, said: 'We are looking at a potentially paralysing winter, the worst for decades, which could at times grind the nation to a halt.

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James Madden, forecaster for Exacta Weather, said it was likely to be the worst winter for more than 100 years.

He said: 'A horror winter scenario is likely to bring another big freeze with copious snow for many parts.
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17 November: 100 DAYS OF HEAVY SNOW: Britain now facing worst winter in SIXTY YEARS warn forecasters

The Express said:
Jonathan Powell, forecaster for Vantage Weather Services, said: “Early indications are that this winter is looking particularly severe, and we could see parallels with the shocking winter of 1947.
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The Express said:
James Madden, forecaster for Exacta Weather, said Britain is braced for “copious” snowfall this winter with extreme cold expected to last into the spring.

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January is likely to bring the worst of the weather although Britain will shiver in below-average temperatures for the next three months.

He said: “This is certainly a record-breaking and historical weather period which is likely to see one of the coldest and snowiest starts to British New Year in a very long time.”
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That seems to be almost identical to this story dated 13 November: 'HEAVY SNOW WARNING: Shock long range UK weather forecast for winter 2013'


Dig into any Express weather story and it's a 90% probability that one or both of them will be quoted.
 
See also: http://themediablog.typepad.com/the-media-blog/2012/08/daily-express-weather-headlines.html
eg: in 2011 "how about on 5th December when The Express told us: "WHY A WHITE CHRISTMAS IS A SURE BET". It followed this on the 17th December by declaring: "IT'S A WHITE CHRISTMAS". Sadly neither the bookies nor the snow Gods were listening eight days later as anybody backing The Express's 'sure thing' wasted their money.

One of the mildest

In fact, the Met Office reported: "Christmas Day was generally cloudy, breezy and one of the mildest on record, with 14°c recorded at Church Fenton (North Yorkshire), and no snow reported anywhere."



Over the course of a year The Daily Express ran a weather-related story on its front page 111 times - almost once every 3 days. The headlines were also wrong (or wildly exaggerated) almost all of those times. http://ohitsscottbryan.com/2012/08/23/the-daily-express-and-the-weather/
 
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Krisstiffer said:
We've had lots of snow here today. It's that special type of unfrozen snow called rain.
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Here is some unfrozen snow we had a couple of day ago. That's not a canal, it's a railway line!




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Steve.
 
Steve Smith said:
Here is some unfrozen snow we had a couple of day ago. That's not a canal, it's a railway line!




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What???? That means that water must be about 6ft deep!! Bloody hell!
 
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