These hysterical weather warnings need to stop – here’s what forecasters must do in future
These hysterical weather warnings need to stop – here’s what forecasters must do in future
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ALL last week, we were warned that we’d need to tie our dogs down because they were going to be sucked into the sky by the airborne twister- tsunami known as Storm Eeowowyion. This mega storm was going to unleash hell. Buildings would be smashed, trains would be blown over. Forests would be flattened.
![[People watching large waves crash against a lighthouse during a storm.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/people-view-large-waves-storm-966323335_13a1af.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The weathermen were very clear about all of this. They even produced maps showing the low-pressure system and, to hammer the point home, they didn’t use reds and yellows. They broke out the scarlets and a purple so deep it was almost black. And as a result, businesses arranged to shut for the day, travel plans were changed and everyone made sure their garden trampolines were chained to newly sunk concrete foundations.
![[A police car and a man walking a dog past a fallen tree in Helensburgh, Scotland during a storm.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-helensburgh-scotland-united-kingdom-966331201.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
And then we woke up yesterday morning to find it was a bit breezy. The weathermen were all standing on the bottom corner of Ireland, making out like they were in Hiroshima in 1945 and there were stories that commercial airliners were coming across the Atlantic at speeds in excess of 800 mph.
![[Falling rocks warning sign.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/rural-road-sign-warning-danger-963321767.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
But for most of us, there was no real weather at all. I also lived through the Storm of ’87 and I’ve been to southern Chile where it rains, heavily, all day and every day for six months. Look, I know why the weather- men like to get hysterical. It means they are elevated from a slot at the end of a news bulletin into the bulletin itself and this makes their mums and dads very proud.
![[A person wearing a team scarf and making a hand gesture.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/b6e337c5-b714-40a6-aa18-5fdf38d0db32.jpg?strip=all&w=865)
