‘Surreal’ TV news clip about heatwave mirrors ‘Don’t Look Up’ doomsday scene

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two snippets currently has nearly 21 million views on Twitter as of Thursday morning.“A clip from ‘Don’t Look Up,’ and then a real TV interview that just happened,” teased Twitter user Ben Phillips in the caption to the cinematic weather forecast.In the first segment taken from a GB News segment last week, British meteorologist John Hammond warns viewers that the temp — in Celsius — could double in the coming week.“By early next week, you can scratch 20 degrees [68 degrees Fahrenheit], it could well be 40 degrees [104 degrees Fahrenheit],” the weatherman cautions. “I think there will be hundreds, if not thousands, of excess deaths next week.”He added, “The charts that I can see in front of me are frightening.

We all like nice weather, but this will not be nice weather, this will potentially be lethal weather for a couple of days. It will be brief but it will be brutal.”A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened pic.twitter.com/CokQ5eb3sOAt that point, Hammond attempts to rattle off more points but is cut off by host Bev Turner. “So John, I want us to be happy about the weather,” she says, dismissing his ominous forecast. “And I don’t know whether something has happened to meteorologists to make you all a little bit fatalistic and harbingers of doom.”Turner added, “All of the broadcasts, particularly on the BBC, every time I’ve turned on, anyone is talking about the weather and they’re saying there’s going to be tons of fatalities.

But haven’t we always had hot weather, John?”However, Hammond’s predilection proved to be prescient as temperatures did top 104 degrees in London while the mercury hit a national record-breaking 104.4 Fahrenheit Tuesday in eastern England.