People Will Ignore Constant Weather Warnings, Says Chief Forecaster

Constant weather warnings could lead to the public ignoring them, according to a top forecaster. Liz Bentley, the chief executive at the Royal Meteorological Society, said over the past week “probably not a day has gone by without a weather warning.” The country has faced not one but two named storms—Storm Jocelyn which brought fresh travel disruption to much of the UK, less than two days after Storm Isha, bringing with it multiple weather warnings. “There are so many of those, the concern is that people might become complacent,” Ms. Bentley said, The Telegraph reported. She added that “if we constantly have yellow warnings out for something people will start to ignore them.”...