Just spotted this load of old nonsense from the Mail - "BBC weatherman warns people of Kent to prepare themselves for temperatures of -99C"
Really?
No, of course he didn't.
Sure enough the map showed -99... it's happened a few times over the years and I'm surprised it took the Mail this long to pick up on it.
The live graphics will show a figure of -99 when there's a problem with the data reaching the graphics. Normally it'd be picked up by a human being and corrected to something more likely. That's kind of the point. It's a deliberately impossible figure, obvious to everyone (even Mail readers) that there's been an error.
Even so, that didn't stop the Mail padding out the flimsy story with record low temperatures and raiding the stock images for a picture of Antarctica to help explain the concept. And to think the BBC gets accused of 'dumbing down'.
Strangely the Telegraph ran the same story using instead a great big moon-faced picture of Dan Corbett.
In other news, BBC admit another hilarious weather blunder. This time a typo results in a very hot temperature.
Jesus if this keeps up my sides are going to split.
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