Just after I praised them for finally doing something right, I have to congratulate the Met Office for a spectacular gaffe. In April, they promised the UK a “barbecue summer” (well, not in the small print, but who reads that?). Now they’re saying a Barbour waterproof might be a better investment than a barbecue (see what I did there?). That's three summers in a row their long-term forecast has been wrong - sorry, I mean misleading.
Anyway, I was sat in the New Scientist office this afternoon, and a few of us decided that “Barbecue summer” is going to be the new euphemism for anything not to believe. Where you might have said “it’s the new cold fusion”, now you can say, “yeah, right, that’ll happen just after the barbecue summer.”
Any takers? Have we been beaten to it?
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