Fake Weather

One of the more reliable bits of news coverage might be the weather forecast. You would have thought, with all the meteorological science, the weather is now pretty predictable, at least more predicable than it used to be.
But the recent Easter period of non-stop rain here in Norfolk has had me thinking that this is not necessarily the case, despite the undoubted credentials of the presenters themselves and the science they rely upon. At least on the internet, I brandished one forecast for Saturday showing bright sunshine all day, when in actual fact it chucked it down. Being on the trike we looked at several forecasts and in the end I, personally, didn't trust any of them.
We could put this down to my paranoia, but when it feels like you are on the edge of forty days and forty nights, with Britain sat in an atmospheric war zone between a chilly east and a wet west, and the consequences of global warming on everybody's minds, the relentlessly cheerful countenance of weathermen and women might become suspicious. It is as if bad news is not allowed; there always has to be an upside; like better skiing in Scotland when the rest of us are bloody miserable. Why can't there be miserable news? Just now I even heard reference to 'Dunkirk spirit' on BBC East- smiles on faces no matter what across swathes of soaked coastal resorts- a kind of pushy happiness I might expect from Starbucks.
The charming graphic above occupies a condition where you will even find sexy weather girls on porn sites. Tellingly I found one reference to weather girl sexiness being 'better than porn'. And whilst this image is clearly just a bit of a giggle, I still wonder at whether this TV weather incident might or might have happened, that this is actually quite a good representation of the appeal of Carol Kirkwood. I found it by googling 'weather girl pin-ups'. All credit to it's creator(s), whoever they are, for demonstrating so neatly where we are.
The precursor to my anxiety lies once more in the USA, in Steve Martin's fabulous portrayal of a weatherman in LA Story (1991). He wrote it as a comedy.