This is the most ridiculous thing I have EVER seen in national print.

It's almost sick to suggest it, and I cannot believe such tripe can ever be printed.

As a journalist myself, I shudder at the tactics of some of my "national" colleagues.

Ridiculous.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/350300/Typhoon-warning-Winter-weather-hell-as-killer-storm-heads-towards-BRITAIN-for-Christmas

Leon Brown saying : "“We predict that it will change the circulation of the entire northern hemisphere.”

What does he think this is, the end of the world, The Day After Tomorrow?

I almost had to check the date to see if we'd moved to April Fools' Day.

The sad thing is, some people will believe this crap.

It's absolutely appalling.

"Heavy wintry showers are expected to cause widespread chaos"

And then we get this drivel:

Fiona Brookes, of the Campaign Against Climate Change, said: “Climate change means our seasons have moved out of sync.

“The UK’s weather system is so complex that we will see more and more extreme weather.”

Climate change again...we are all doomed.....Don't even get me started on that old chestnut.

And why is it that EVERY storm in the world is always heading in our direction? Have we got a giant storm magnet that attracts everything to these shores?

I just give up with these idiots.

The Star is like the Express on crack

Same owner, Richard Desmond, who has very little respect for facts.

Perhaps before the new press regulations come into force, he is having a little fun

Have to laugh at that

Exactly - it gets worse - You couldn't make it up sometimes. You just couldn't.

It is sad that all these bulls**ters can only think of hijacking a disaster to get a headline.
Really sad.

It really is shocking.

Please don't give this the airtime it doesn't deserve.
I shall be emailing the editor of the newspaper responsible in the morning with my own particular opinion on this sort of disgusting freeloading.

It won't make any difference of course.

And back on subject .......

Ignoring the insensitive and ridiculous headline, there is technically a modicrum of truth in the Daily Star's story - insofar that every cyclone will have an effect on subsequent weather systems a week or two later.   As, indeed, does every block of high pressure - it it hangs around an extra day, it impacts on the path of a trough which in turn affects the development of another ridge that then means a depression tracks further north ..... and so on.    Consequently, it's quite possible that Christmas will be even warmer and sunnier than it would have been had Haijan been a slightly smaller storm .....

I did find myself wondering what on Earth was going through the editor's mind at that time. Couldn't he have stopped and thought for a moment that perhaps it wasn't a very good headline before giving it the go ahead.
 
But, I guess it's all based on sales.

I see that the Express is also up to it's usual tricks this morning, I can't be bothered to provide a link to their front page headline as it is getting a bit repetitive.  

Agreed, but it is a nice picture of Stonehenge it has to be said.
Nothing in the text, apart from the most probably mis-quoted piece from Jo Farrow, is worth the screenspace it occupies.

Therein lies the answer - sales and web hits - how many of you clicked the link?

What are they going to write when the GM bites - hopefully, run out of hyper-superlatives and totally combust.

Good ploy to sell snow shovels for the  rubbish that gets printed... 

I haven't bought a newspaper for years based on such crap such as that. It is amazing to me though that despite my knowledge of weather and my telling those I know what rubbish about weather gets printed they still end up falling on the side that 'If it's in print it must be true'. 

Picking up a point that someone made earlier regarding that their maybe a little truth in it, indeed there maybe but once the storms dissolved and the whole atmospheric situation that caused it dissolves and rectifies itself it's long term effect would only be a few weeks at the very most.

Even if we have a bad winter this year with snow and frost It would be unlikely to have anything to do with the typhoon in the Phillipines or severe weather anywhere else for that matter.

Somebody should explain to them that paper never refused ink...

As a general rule of thumb: if you read it in a newspaper, it's probable either not entirely true, or they accidently on purpose missed out some of the pertinent facts.

Newspapers are to the truth what red paint is to building a time machine.

To be fair, we do have a great big rain magnet that attracts crap weather to these shores. But that more applies in summer...

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/jun/15/daily-express-weather-forecast-jonathan-powell