Windy

Windy weather may not be on tap,

If a hurricane’s shown on your map.

Nor need temps be so high

Data centers would fry—

You’ve been using the Beeb’s weather app!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His acrostic sonnets have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Better Than Starbucks, The Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, MONO, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, the Satirist, the Washington Post and WestWard Quarterly. The poem was prompted by the Metro story “BBC weather app forecasts 14,408mph winds and 404°C for UK this afternoon.”