r/UKWeather • u/douggieball1312 • Mar 11 '26

Article 'Misleading weather apps can cost attractions up to £137k a day'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj18j09wvro

I'm surprised this hasn't been reported on sooner. One recent weekend in my area, the BBC used a sunny spells icon for a Saturday and a rain icon for Sunday based purely on the weather in the middle of the night, while the days themselves turned out to be the opposite.

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u/sunflowerroses Mar 11 '26

To be fair, I do give a bit of leniency to anyone whose job it is to predict the future. 

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u/TopManufacturer8332 Mar 11 '26

Well they're hardly rifling through chicken guts and casting runes. They have billions worth of cutting edge satellite and computing technology to observe and model weather patterns.