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BBC apologises after weather forecast of hurricane winds in UK - and 404C temperatures


The BBC has apologised after a weather blunder saw it accidentally forecast hurricane winds and temperatures hot enough to melt lead across the UK.

The BBC Weather app confusingly forecast hurricane level winds and temperatures hot enough to melt lead in Nottingham (Image: Getty Images)Simon King, meteorologist and lead BBC weather presenter, took to Twitter early this morning to address the unusual forecasts. King’s tweet was accompanied by a screenshot from the BBC Weather app that showed Nottingham, which is currently expecting much more habitable nightly temperatures of 3°C, was set to experience these extreme conditions. In the meantime, they shared Thursday’s actual weather forecast, predicting colder, clearer air moving in, rain and drizzle in the south, and blustery showers near the east coast - all far more typical conditions for October in the UK, and certainly less catastrophic.

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