Well, it might be indicative of wider issues with keeping their systems / data up to date, or the wider govt IT infrastructures that support them. If they are g

Well, it might be indicative of wider issues with keeping their systems / data up to date, or the wider govt IT infrastructures that support them. If they are getting this wrong, what other problems are there, in the Met Bureau or across Govt IT. I'm reminded of the COVID reporting fiasco we had in the UK in October [0] where Public Health England - an agency of the NHS - lost COVID data because they were using .xls files to log data rather than .xlsx - the former was silently truncating critical datasets because of a hard row limit. The .xlsx format first appeared in 2007, so the NHS have only had 13 years to get their act together. [0] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/05/excel_england_coronavirus_contact_error/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/05/excel_england_coronav...