THE BBC has explained a glitch on its weather app this morning as forecasts around Ayrshire show hurricane force winds for Thursday.
The app shows from Ayr to Millport the same weather issue as people have rushed onto social media questioning the unusual information.
With Hurricane Milton blasting through Florida, the BBC said that it has been inundated with concerns raised by the public over the 'hurricane strength' winds being forecast over here, with many screengrabs of the weather app showing the warning featuring on social media forums this morning up and down the country.
On BBC Breakfast this morning, weather presenter Carol Kirkwood said that the weather app was giving out 'confusing information' because of a technical glitch showing wind speeds far too fast.
She said: "That is not the case at all so please do not be alarmed by that, and we aware of it, and we are on it, and hopefully it will be fixed soon."
In a statement, BBC Weather said: "We have an issue with some of the weather data from our forecast provider which is generating incorrect numbers and text on our BBC Weather app and website.
"It’s mainly been impacting wind readings but some temperatures are also displaying wrongly.
"We recognise there is huge interest in weather today and this is incredibly frustrating.
"We are really, really sorry about this and working very hard to fix the problem.
A BBC spokesperson also apologised and it was working with its supplier to fix the issue as soon as possible.
The BBC recently revealed its BBC Weather app to be the fastest-growing BBC app of all time, with more than eight million downloads since its launch in June 2013.
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