BBC Weather app bug suggests hurricane winds in UK
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Re: BBC Weather app bug suggests hurricane winds in UK
#2It's still showing hurricane force winds.
I guess they've decided it's better to show the correct forecast data + bad wind data than take down the page entirely.
Re: BBC Weather app bug suggests hurricane winds in UK
#3I assume by default that somewhere, somehow, AI is to blame.
Re: BBC Weather app bug suggests hurricane winds in UK
#4Yup, 140mph forecast here. Observed windspeed currently 2mph.
Re: BBC Weather app bug suggests hurricane winds in UK
#5Given the chronological proximity to the real hurricane force winds in the US right now, seems fair to me to assume someone at the weather data source was testing how these values might propagate/display and the test values escaped containment?
Re: BBC Weather app bug suggests hurricane winds in UK
#6This bug was added for those who open BBC Weather in a rush to hide the actual page they were looking at before. The hurricane news make it look more plausible that you were looking at something interesting on the weather page.
Re: BBC Weather app bug suggests hurricane winds in UK
#7Given the chronological proximity to the real hurricane force winds in the US right now, seems fair to me to assume someone at the weather data source was testing how these values might propagate/display and the test values escaped containment?
The numbers shown can be as high as 15000 MPH - nowhere on earth has seen speeds like that.
(I hope this comment ages well).
Re: BBC Weather app bug suggests hurricane winds in UK
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Re: BBC Weather app bug suggests hurricane winds in UK
#9Given the chronological proximity to the real hurricane force winds in the US right now, seems fair to me to assume someone at the weather data source was testing how these values might propagate/display and the test values escaped containment?
The numbers shown can be as high as 15000 MPH - nowhere on earth has seen speeds like that. (I hope this comment ages well).
Ah I realize my first comment is maybe not written so well. I meant to convey, it looks to me that some irrationally high dummy testing values (put there because we're seeing historically high winds and they wish to test that behaviour) were accidentally put into the production data source.
Re: BBC Weather app bug suggests hurricane winds in UK
#10It's still showing hurricane force winds. I guess they've decided it's better to show the correct forecast data + bad wind data than take down the page entirely.
Which is very questionable decision.