roubaixtuesday wrote: ↑15 Aug 2022, 12:36pmThat's quite some mashup of paranoia and conspiracy theories!Biospace wrote: ↑15 Aug 2022, 12:31pmLast year for our Lake District part of summer holidays - late August - there was day after day of blue skies once morning mist and cloud had burned away. Not only did the BBC forecast drizzle and low cloud ahead of our stay, but it continued to mention 'grey, cool conditions with low cloud with some light drizzle' throughout our holiday on its radio forecasts, no mention whatsoever of the hot sunshine, day after day after day. At the time, the Pennines and East of was cool and grey with 8/8 cloud.
I did wonder whether this was modern-day BBC reporting as a form of control of people's movements (they were still in panic mode over Covid-19 last year and sounded alarmed the government had opened things up at all) or just their usual ineptitude to provide anything vaguely accurate for that part of the world.
Several local business owners asked how we hadn't been put off by the weather forecast, they seem resigned to the fact the BBC does its best to deter tourists whenever there's any ambiguity over the weather. It left me wondering what other facts might be left out of their reporting.
Neither a mashup nor paranoia, nor conspiracy theory.
I'm intrigued why you should think someone is left questioning things when the BBC reports day after day that grey skies and drizzle will continue when the reality is blazing sunshine and near cloudless skies?
In a different time, a reply like yours would be upheld as strange for suggesting someone was paranoid for pointing out the weather was the very opposite of what the BBC was reporting and forecasting. Not just for the odd one or two days, but repeatedly.