Britain's national broadcaster, the BBC, issued an alert on Thursday morning after the Bureau of Meteorology predicted a hurricane across the country, prompting a hasty denial.
The BBC's weather app and website is predicting hurricanes across the country on Thursday morning, and apparently in all parts of the UK and its remote islands, users will be faced with a weather forecast warning of “hurricane force winds” in bold type. It seems there is.
BBC Morning TV weather presenter Carol Kirkwood said the weather forecast display was due to a technical glitch. she said: “We are currently experiencing technical issues and the wind speed is so high that it actually indicates hurricane strength. Of course, that is not the case at all, so don't worry.” And if you As we say, we are well aware of it and are currently trying to fix it, so we hope it will resolve itself. ”
Hours after the disturbance first appeared, the BBC was still predicting the hurricane via digital broadcasts.
Some people may have noticed this glitch at first glance when inspecting the speeds involved. Wind speeds were predicted to reach more than 16,000 miles per hour in areas of the country normally prone to strong winds, such as the southwest and the Irish Sea. Clashes at speeds of 14,000 mph were still expected in the interior and east.
This is not only significantly faster than a typical hurricane, which has winds of 200 miles per hour, but also faster than the speed of sound, which is 1,260 miles per hour, and the speed of a storm on Neptune, which is 1,500 miles per hour. The windiest planet in the solar system.
Although the UK is not particularly prone to hurricanes, the weather warning may have seemed less immediately realistic to others, given the wider news situation. The top story on the BBC on Thursday morning was, of course, the real Hurricane Milton making landfall in Florida. A few days earlier, the British media was abuzz with reports of Hurricane Kirk, which had crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached Western Europe.
that on monday had been reported The remnants of Hurricane Kirk will pass through southern Britain and north-west Europe on Thursday morning, potentially producing winds of up to 80 miles per hour, just as the BBC weather service glitched. However, the storm was not without serious consequences, with a yacht capsized and one sailor killed in France. report Le Monde.
