Phones, letters, e-mails
| 11:34 UK time, Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Among the audience reaction received by the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú in the past 24 hours were a number of messages praising Panorama's into the provision of health care for the elderly, as well as numerous objections to the coverage of the Middle East conflict.
We also received this email.
I would like weather reporting to take account of the fact that a fine sunny day is not always what we all want. There is a drought in the south east of the UK and rain is very welcome. You would think that weather reporters had not heard about it.
Comments
If the person emailing had checked the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú site they'd be pleased to know that a monthly forecast is available, which does indeed predict wetter weather in the South, albeit a little while away.
/weather/ukweather/monthly_outlook.shtml
I think everyone living in countries like Cyprus, who spend an enormous %age of the GDP on water desalinization, will laugh at the idea of a "drought' in a country that gets rain _somewher_ on the island for more than 7 months a year. I don't mean laugh in a mean way, but in the sense that the comment was naive and charming, revealing how pampered a human being can get. Seriously, though, they make the same mistake in Cyprus, calling our brief periods of relief from drought, the 20 days a year when it does rain "kakokairia," bad weather! Who decided rain is bad and sun is good, regardless of supply and demand?
My parents live in Kent while I live in Cambridgeshire. They came to visit me on Saturday and were awed by the rain - they hadn't seen any for close to 2 MONTHS!!!
It always irritates me when weather reports are clearly biased towards the presumption that everyone loves hot, sunny weather - not everyone does! News reporters are impartial, so why aren't weather presenters?
In fairness most weather forecasters put a positive spin on snow during winter.
Perhaps it is extremes of weather which they get excited about.