A technical glitch on the BBC Weather app and website on Friday left the UK predicting temperatures of around 8C.
After weeks of balmy temperatures above 20C, the weather site was on Friday morning forecasting an unusually cold spell that would last from Monday until Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Met Office is predicting temperatures of 20C and 21C throughout the same period.
The BBC said on Friday that “a problem at a third party supplier” was behind the error.
Apologies that the technical glitch with our data on the website and app are still not completely fixed.
— BBC Weather (@bbcweather) June 30, 2023
Teams are working hard to resolve it as soon as possible.https://t.co/KoDF1XJptF
BBC Weather presenter and meteorologist Simon King told the BBC: “While the data for Friday and Saturday has now been fixed and up to date, beyond that the technical glitch is still showing temperatures of 7C or 8C.
“Don’t worry, we’re not going back to winter. Temperatures in fact will be around the average for the time of year – around 16C to 23C – north to south across the UK.”
The issue also affected BBC News at Ten on Thursday night, when screens showed London, Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh predicted to be 8C every day from Monday to Thursday.
The glitch prompted plenty of reactions on social media.
“Thought the polar vortex was coming,” joked one Twitter user.
“Phew, was thinking I needed to get the big coat back out,” wrote another.
In a statement on Twitter, BBC Weather said: “Apologies that the technical glitch with our data on the website and app are still not completely fixed. Teams are working hard to resolve it as soon as possible.”
The issue had been resolved by Friday afternoon.
