Well, here in the UK similar accusations have been labelled against our news channels for being too “London Centric” and nowhere is this more apparent when Britain experiences warm weather. According to the forecasts generated by the Met Office, London is going to reach (over the next few days) no lower than 57°F at night and as high as 86°F during the day and remaining will into the seventies for the next week or so, which as you might expect has the media reaching for the “Phew, What a Scorcher!” headline files.
There is however, one tiny hiccup in this, here the forecast high over that same period is 68°F with a low of 54°F (warm, yes, but nothing like as warm as in London) and then increasing to 72°F on Wednesday and Thursday before returning to more normal levels (low 60’s) by next weekend, and this is a problem that I have had to deal with for ages and ages and ages. Every time something happens in London it gets splashed about the media and we, on the coast of Wales say, “I’m sorry, London, are you sure EVERYONE is getting this?”. Therefore when you see reports of people, sunbathing on the southern coastal resorts of Brighton, Hove, Bournemouth and places like that, just remember that’s only 5% of the entire population sweltering whilst the rest are carrying on as normal
