This is the new BBC weather app. Because we believe the impartial BBC we trust their weather forecast – right?
Wrong. Yesterday was supposed to be sunny with cloudy intervals but dry. I left home at 9.00 am for another riparian ramble in a monsoon. Men in suits going to work in Hammersmith offices were soaked. The app was launched at the beginning of this year and the BBC, who had hitherto out-sourced to the Met Office, are using a new supplier, MeteoGroup.
So I’m just a grumpy old man who has nothing better to do than complain – right? Wrong. I’m like Superman, the Scarlet Pimpernel or Sean Bunny – I have all the answers, except when I’m watching University Challenge.
I remember Sean Bunny with great affection. It was a cartoon strip in The Irish Times that ended when I was nine. When I first went to Castle Park it was cut out and sent to me at school to cheer me up. I think it must have caused amusement at home as I always called it Seen Bunny and was never corrected. Well, we all have to grow up, unless we are Peter Pan. Robert won first prize at a fancy dress party as PP; the theme was Bob Dylan songs and he chose Forever Young. As I say, I grew up and migrated from Sean Bunny to Rip Kirby.
Although some good things come to an end, Rip Kirby in 1999, others continue. I bought the European weekend edition of The New York Times and got a shot of nostalgia seeing Dilbert and Peanuts.
But back to the weather and Superwoman comes to the rescue. She has more than a few horses and needs a reliable weather forecast to see what the Going will be or if the race might be cancelled. She uses www.yr.no that comes from Norway a country that understands weather.
