One of the jobs at online clickbait portal MyLondon is 'Keeping an eye on next week's weather forecast in case the temperature goes up'. All sorts of speculative headlines can then be generated, driving traffic from people incapable of checking the weather forecast unaided.
On 6th April they tried New forecast shows exact dates of first ‘mini-heatwave’ of 2023, based solely on the fact that Easter Sunday would be "a toasty 16C" and the following Sunday "a roasting 17C". Nothing about temperatures in the mid-teens is toasty or roasting, but people clicked anyway.
On 11th April they tried Brilliant map shows all the air conditioned Tube lines as 'mini heatwave' forecast, not that the Underground becomes a furnace at temperatures as low as 20°C. The map in question was produced five years ago by Geoff Marshall so didn't have Crossrail on it, plus journo Adam didn't get permission from Geoff to embed it, but this transgressive news story remains online because people clicked anyway.
On 14th April, i.e. yesterday, they had to admit that the whole heatwave thing was bunk. The new headline was Hopes of April 'mini-heatwave' ruined as Met Office and BBC issue new forecasts, the gutting reality being that "temperatures are expected to reach highs of just 16C". Essentially it was an admission that their previous story was bolx, but it was still the most-read story on the MyLondon website because people clicked anyway.
That's six separate stories about a meteorological non-event, because this alas is the way online journalism tries to make a living these days.
