Too many warnings will make viewers blasé, says Bill Giles, who retired from reading the weather in 2000 PALast week it was Ewan, a month ago it was Doris and before that it was Conor. The names of storms that prompted severe weather warnings have become ubiquitous, talked about on Twitter, Facebook, radio and TV broadcasts — and one former forecaster is fed up with them. Bill Giles, 77, who retired from giving predictions about rainy weekends in 2000, has accused today’s forecasters of behaving like nannies for issuing so many warnings, and says that the public will soon become immune to them. “We seem to have been inundated with weather warnings this winter, not least when Storm Doris crashed in from the Atlantic in February, bringing misery to great swathes of the country,” Giles says. “But when we receive as many warnings…

Source: The Times March 07, 2017 00:09 UTC