BBC Weather app wrongly shows 18,995 mph wind speeds in Britain

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LONDON : Britons woke up to alarming news on Thursday, with the widely used BBC Weather app forecasting winds 150 times stronger than Hurricane Milton, due to a data malfunction.With television ...

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