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Forecast failure: how the Met Office lost touch with reality

Ideology has corrupted a valuable British institution

13 July 2013

9:00 AM

13 July 2013

9:00 AM

It has been a glorious sunny week in Britain — it feels as if summer is finally here. As Andy Murray was winning Wimbledon, temperatures on Centre Court exceeded 40˚C in the sun. Northern Ireland has been hotter than Cancun. The papers have begun their annual drip-feed of stories about ‘tombstoning’ — young people throwing themselves from cliffs and bridges into water.

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