Yellow Sun Bad?
Raheem Kassam
Weather forecasts now use a deep, dark red to represent glorious sunshine. Why?
People are starting to notice some, uh, less-than-subtle psychological conditioning rearing its head in modern weather forecasting.
What was once the smiley, happy face of the sun letting us know we could strip off and run through the neighborhood sprinklers (when we were kids, please don’t do this as adults) has been replaced with the deepest, darkest red that corporate media graphics departments can create, designed to summon forth notions of hell on Earth.
Observe, back in 1995 – when “John Kettley was the weatherman, the weatherman, the weatherman” (and so was Michael Fish, pictured below) – a temperature of 30 degrees celsius was reflected with a gentle orange. That’s 86 degrees to you Americans. Or “sweater weather” if you’re in Arizona.
It wasn’t a deep orange. It wasn’t an offensive orange. It wasn’t even as orange as a former President freshly emerging from his tanning bed. No, by July 2022, the same temperatures (30 degrees), at the same time of year, are reflected with the most sinister red you could imagine.
I mean, at this point, why not just make >28 degrees solid black? (They will).