The UKMOUKMO The Meteorological Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are going overboard at the moment about high UVUV Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays. levels and the dangers of getting sunburnt. It’s a bit ironic, because so far (June 14th) 2024 has seen the coolest and cloudiest start to a meteorological summer in at least 23 years. What’s puzzling is that they never mention in their forecast that UV levels can be considerably higher on a mountain than on lower ground. I used AIAI Artificial intelligence is intelligence - perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information - demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. in the form of ChatGPT to confirm what I already suspected. I well remember two colleagues at RAF Kinloss coming to work for a night shift, both as red as a beetroots, after a days hillwalking on Ben Wyvis on a sunny day. Back in the 1980’s people weren’t so concerned about the risk of skin cancer from getting sunburnt, but today skin cancer are much more common.😮
