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Originally Posted by Chris
Mine’s boiled by people who think internet memes and cobbled-together Tw*tter graphics are a decent argument for (or rebuttal of) anything at all, ever.
There has been a trend in TV weather towards using graded colour to indicate temperature, rainfall, rain accumulation, variance from average and all sorts of things. This has become possible because weather models and observations are a lot more granular than they used to be.
‘To scare you’ is an assertion that simply isn’t supported by the evidence available in the photo. We don’t know whether the two pictures are even from the same forecaster, so we can’t see how else their graphical presentation of the weather may have changed in the *six years* between the two images.
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That’s just one common image, but it does highlight a point.
I even tested it myself two days ago. BBC had the temperature in Sicily at 45deg, but when you went on the local weather website it was 33deg.
There is no denying that the MSM are whipping up hysteria around temperatures in Southern Europe and I’d go so far as misleading.