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Prohibit BBC forecasters from using positive or negative words for the weather.

Submitted on Friday 7th June 2019

Rejected on Friday 28th June 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Prohibit BBC forecasters from using positive or negative words for the weather.

Petition Details

On most weather forecasts the presenter will usually decide that warm sunny weather is 'gorgeous', 'wonderful' and so on, and cold weather, complete with rain or wind to be 'miserable', 'vile' or similar.

Some people find those descriptors inaccurate. Therefore the BBC should not use them.

Additional Information

On BBC Midlands Today, both Shefali Oza and Nick Owen recently used positive words for warm weather and negative ones for colder weather. This is possibly discriminatory to us that like a bit of drizzle and cannot stand any temperature above 10c.


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