Just Watching The News At 11 On Bbc News 24

[ToraToraTora]

This is UK right? So why have they spent the first 7 minutes on North American weather? Surely there is something going on here? US weather may warrant a 30 second mention at the bottom of the order but not top billing. The US news barely mentions anything in the outside world.

[bhg481]

It's all fake news anyway. Everybody knows that the UK is the only country in the entire world whose transport system is affected by bad weather. The rest of the world is able to carry on normally when the weather gets bad but a single snowflake on London is sufficient to close our capital city.

[tiggerblue10]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64083129

It's -45° which is more like Arctic temperatures.

[anneasquith]

“/flights have been cancelled “ I hope so, no one in their right mind would fly in those conditions .

[Togo]

They were trying to keep the snowflakes happy ... as usual. :))

[daveinscotland]

Probably a microcosm of AB. Country going to the wall but some on here are more inclined to express admiration and loyalty to a former POTUS whilst denying any wrongdoing by him.
You wouldn’t Adam and Eve it.

[ichkeria]

Our weather is not as interesting at the moment.
It is quite a serious freeze

[MissTerious2]

We quite often end up with the tail end of US sorms arriving here. So watch out!!,

[Philoctetes]

I can think of at least two reasons. Primarily, freak weather conditions are part of the major narrative of climate change, which affects us all. Secondly, this is the sort of natural disaster that does get reported on, wherever it is, because we are all human, inhabiting the same planet. Then there is the early warning aspect - some remnants of this event are likely to be with us in a few days

[10ClarionSt]

Looking on the Weather Channel, this will sweep in and out fairly quickly, so not a long term thing.

[perseverer]

If TTT Is watching BBC news now, he is probably apoplectic - they have just spent 5 minutes talking to someone in NORAD explaining how they track Santa and where he is at the moment.

[fiveleaves]

Severe, weird weather is affecting the whole world. The UK is not isolated from world weather systems. What is happenning in the US and Canada is a type of natural disaster

[Peter Pedant]

if you listen a little before eleven
they actually say they are going to Singapore and turning international....
..... is the reason

getting any ABer to pay attention to what is said and then think about it is nothing short of a miracle no matter what his conclusion is

[andy-hughes]

bhg481 - // Everybody knows that the UK is the only country in the entire world whose transport system is affected by bad weather. The rest of the world is able to carry on normally when the weather gets bad but a single snowflake on London is sufficient to close our capital city. //

This is a common response whenever bad weather paralyses our transport systems.

The difficulty is, the other countries you mention have routine periods of bad weather sufficient to impact of transport, which means they are justified in spending on large amounts of resources to combat such eventualities, safe in the knowledge that they will be required, and justify the expense of providing them.

The UK weather is nowhere near as predictable as that.

Therefore, we cannot invest in large amounts of bad weather resources which may sit largely idle for all but occasional days in any given year, the outlay would simply not be justified.

That means that on occasions when we do experience severe weather, and overall it is nowhere near as much as the other countries in your comparison, then yes we are under-prepared, and forced to play 'catch-up' but that is still more economically sound and effective, than planning with expensive hardware and manpower that may not be called on for anything more than a day or two, if at all.

[jno]

oh no, perseverer, Santa's not caught up in the storm, is he? I don't want my presents jettisoned over Nebraska somewhere.

[lankeela]

jno you would still get them quicker than waiting for Royal Mail to go back to work.

[jno]

lol, that's true

[bhg481]

A-H - If you'd noticed the irony in my post you would have realised that I said exactly the same as you but in many fewer words.l

[douglas9401]

In the name of all that's holy don't tell Tora what happens to Radio4 after the 12:45 shipping forecast! :-)

[Khandro]

TTT; Try Watching GB News instead

[andy-hughes]

Bhg - You didn't say the same as me at all.

You said the the country stops when it snows, something everyone knows.

My extra words were used to provide an explanation, which was missing from your post - so not the same thing in fewer words at all.

There is no virtue in using fewer words, if all you are doing is stating the obvious.