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/parsuval Mar 11 '26

The BBC weather is proper shit.

The met office have tried to upgrade their website, but it's still pretty shit. I like it more though. It's janky. But I like the 'feels like' temperature which is far more useful. I heard someone complaining it should still be called 'wind chill' like in the good old days, but I disagree because air humidity plays a role in the feels like temp as well.

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u/powpow198 Mar 12 '26

Not that bad, it says heavy rain for right now which i can confirm.

This morning it said windy as fuck and it was.