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Cycloneballs: What are the BBC doing? This irresponsible reporting really must stop by Simon Keeling.
Topic Started: 19 Nov 2013, 05:37 PM (107 Views)
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Cycloneballs: What are the BBC doing?
This irresponsible reporting really must stop

By Simon Keeling in Wombourne, Staffs 15:00hrs 19/11/2013
Temperature: 3.5 Weather: Sunny

Sorry folks, but this is going to be a bit of a rant filled Musing.

I have worked with the BBC for many years and have many friends who work there too. These friends are in the Weather Centre and Newsrooms and I'm sure this nonsense is nothing to do with them.

Just have a read of this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24996292

This story actually states that a cyclone has hit Sardinia. It is even given a name. For goodness sake!!!!

The area of low pressure that is in the Mediterranean is exactly that - low pressure.

Some European weather services name individual areas of low pressure in order to identify them (see see here, and of course an area of low pressure (wherever it occurs in the world, and of whatever strength) is a cyclone.

It appears that the BBC Weather Centre must have been asked about the story as they are mentioned within it, and I am perplexed as to why this journalist (or whoever it was who wrote the story) was not put right about the fact that this is not the same at a cyclone in tropical areas.

And before the link to climate change begins, let's kick that one into touch too. At this time of year, and in fact any time through the and including spring, deep areas of low pressure form in the central Mediterranean. There are frequently gale forces winds and heavy rain in the central Meditarrean. In fact, it is one of the roughest seas in the world.

This shocking reporting comes on the back of the over enthusiastic BBC reporting of Super Typhoon Haiyan. Yes the loss of life (as in the Sardinian incident) is tragic, but the wind speeds reported on the BBC website were far faster than recorded.

Has the BBC recruited a new influx of journalists from certain tabloid newspapers? Next we'll be hearing about 'disastrous winter weather' or 'snowmageddon'.

I know that many of you at the BBC will be reading this Musing so come on, make us proud again and stick to the facts, even thought it might make the story less glamorous as a result.

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