Warmest Halloween on Record

Watching the rather inept weather forecast this morning we learn that today, 31st October, is likely to be the warmest Halloween on record. Why should we care? Last spring was the wettest spring on record, a couple of years ago we had the coldest winter on record, several papers have recently ‘reported’, (how can you report something that hasn’t happened yet?!), that this winter of 2014 will be the coldest yet. We’ve had the hottest, driest, wettest, coldest, warmest, coolest, January, February, March, April, May, June, … winter, spring, summer, autumn. Why? What relevance has it?

Don’t get me wrong, I understand the issues around global warming and climate change, I get the whole thing. But what has this got to do with some airhead, (male or female), vaguely pointing at southern Scotland and saying that in the south east of England it is likely to be the warmest Halloween on record? Every day seems to bring another record in our ever changing weather. What does this tell us? Nothing! What it really tells us is that the weather presenter has got another 10 seconds to speak and, because they don’t have anything useful to add, they ‘fill’ the time with some irrelevant ‘record’ that they’ve just invented. The truth is that today probably will be the warmest Halloween on record – that’s because there isn’t another Halloween record to compare against!

And what did we learn this week from the Met Office? Yes, that’s right, they’re going to spend £97 million, that’s £97,000,000 of our money on buying themselves a new computer that will, allegedly, help them predict the weather more accurately! How many new ‘records’ will they be able to tell us about then? Come on people, get a grip, we don’t chuffing care! What we care about is whether we need to take an umbrella today or if the trains are going to be delayed due to the wrong kind of sun. It’s RudyMenTerry!