What are Showery Outbreaks?
First we have the dumbed down whizzing-zooming dirty brown weather map, now the Met Office are trying to make the BBC’s forecasts “simpler” to understand.
Apparently most of the country are incapable of understanding terms such as “showery outbreaks” or “chilly in isolated areas”. Our farmers are no longer able to determine that, while hot sunny weather is great news for most of the country, it isn’t good for them if their fields need some water.
A Met Office spokesman said: “This is not an attempt to dumb down the weather”. In that case, why are they doing it? I don’t have a problem understanding what the forecaster is saying. If anything, since they changed the weather graphics, the forecaster is now the only way of understanding what’s going on.
