The Hottest Day Forecast Since Records Began
…no, not today! Instead, 150 years ago today. For this is the 150th anniversary of the first ever forecast by the Met Office. It was published in the Times and is (right)
Monday 1st of August 2011 is a very special day for the Met Office. We will be celebrating 150 years of forecasting for the nation, marking the anniversary of the first ever public weather forecast appearing in print.
Starting with the lines “general weather probable in the next two days”, the short piece which appeared in on page 10 of the The Times in 1861 was a bold move which started forecasting as we know it today.
That makes the 2nd of August 1861 the hottest day forecast since records began đ
Now things are very different. Barbeque summers and similar awful predictions have gone horribly wrong and we were famously told that ‘it won’t be very windy tomorrow‘
The Met Office is now a global Trojan Horse for the we’re all going to boil to death alarmists but can’t guess what might happen tomorrow….although says it can guarantee to within a percentage of a degree what will happen in 50 years time if we don’t recycle our potato peelings.
Happy Birthday to the Met Office…you politically corrupted bandwagon jumping hysterical bastards.
I once met the PA to the guy who coined the phrase “Barbeque Summer” (non Met Office but a close collaborator), she confirmed that he was suitably contrite for some months.
Makes me laugh every time they declare “Hottest whatever since 1914!!!” which begs the question why was 1914 so hot? (And. of course, they had more pressing things to worry about). It was hot, like the year before it, it’s the reason they abandoned Edwardian starched collars.
Oh and Billy the  Fish was in the papers last week telling us tht our memories of long warm summers and bright crisply cold Xmas’s are all “delusions”; no they are not and I have the photographs to prove it.
The Met Office = AGW collaborationist twats ..
How could the hottest day have been in 1861? They didn’t have global-warming back then. đ