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Showing posts with label Weather warnings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weather warnings. Show all posts

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Mike's Minute: The economic damage caused by weather warnings


This is quite possibly from our "hopeless causes" file.

But can I at least try and make the plea that we have a look at the economic damage done by trigger-happy weather offices and compliant clickbait media when it comes to storm warnings?

Cyclone Vaianu was the latest and is hopefully still fresh enough in our memories to remind us of a week's worth of hyperbole and headline nonsense that actually caused quite a lot of damage.

Not storm damage, but economic damage.