I just put my home town into the Weather Widget on my Mac. I’m in Chelmsford, and it gave me a few options, including three options of the UK:
Chelmsford, Havering, England (wrong – Romford may be in Havering, but Chelmsford certainly isn’t)
Chelmsford, Hertfordshire, England (again, wrong – Chelmsford is not in Hertfordshire, though Essex does border that county)
Chelmsford, Essex, England (Hooray)

It also gives a Chelmsford, England option just in case the other options are too confusing.

EDIT: I posted them a comment on the AccuWeather.com site which is where the data comes from.

I've seen that a few times, although there are often small villages etc. with the same name. I really don't know in the case of Chelmsford, whether it gives small villages or districts within towns that have the same name.

I used live in Crawley, Sussex, then moved to Southampton and drove to Basingstoke every day and passed by Crawley, Hampshire every day.

I've certainly been confused when going somewhere, I know one town of a certain name and plan on going there, only to get the full address just before departure and find it is actually a couple of hundred miles away.

Germany is equally as bad...

Well apparently there's a "St. Ives" in Cambridgeshire. Can't imagine it's anywhere near as good as the one down here though

Don't say that! If we talk it up maybe the emmets will go there instead.

So what's the BBC's excuse?
I went to use there 5 day weather forecast for Derby, and it gave me a load of stupid options.


Derby near Burton????? WTF????? Derby is a city with a county named after it and they're giving an option near Burton.

The references are to particular weather monitoring stations, not to towns or cities. They just name them after the closest population centre for ease of reference. So, for example, the second one probably is at East midlands airport (most airports have weather monitoring stations within the perimeter) rather than being a version of Derby different to the first. Course when they have more than one, they then have to think up a different reference for it.

I just decided to check if EMA was actually close to Derby and I find the official website has tons of information on it, but no information about where it is or how to get to it. *sigh*. Anyone who says 'by plane' at this point will be scorned.

Jon

By helicopter

As for US geography...



Never gets old

LMFAO Finlay!! I have saved that for posterity.

EMA and burton are miles away from Derby. Why not just route me straight to the results for Derby city. If I wanted the weather for Burton or EMA I would have searched for it.

In the 'states, you can't even measure idiocy in terms of the planet, it extends to the solar system:

americans are "thick" mentally and physically