‘Natural’ weather sensation

JOHN ENSOR

A TEENAGE weatherman from Burgos has become an unexpected hit due to his uncanny ability to predict the weather using age­old methods that have left meteorologists hot under the collar.

Despite his critics, Jorge Rey hit back at professional weather experts who have labelled his methods of forecasting the weather as pseudo­ science, according to a news source.

Rey has gone head­to­head with official meteorologists who discredit his methods, based on the observation of nature. And the young man is not one to mince his words. He launched a strong message about the haters who comment on him on social networks and have questioned his methods.

The arrival on the national scene of a meteorology expert, who was still in secondary school, took everyone by surprise and captured the public’s imagination.

Jorge Rey is a young man from a village in Burgos who decided to revive the traditional methods for predicting the weather. For hundreds of years, they have been used to forecast what was about to happen.

He first came to attention with his Filomena forecast, which left everyone in shock. Nobody could have expected that a teenager would be more accurate than all the meteorologists in the country. Rey gives credit to nature and observes the clues it gives us to find out what will happen.

He reportedly stole a march on the experts by studying flying ants and their out­of­the­ ordinary behaviour, which he claims gave him a prediction of the summer ahead of the experts.

Jorge Rey is increasingly aware of his influence and media power, and cleverly launched a strong message based on tradition.

He answered the critics with a Spanish proverb: ‘Cuando el río suena... (literally when the river sounds...). The English equivalent might be: There’s no smoke without fire. He has used the phrase to show he is doing some damage to the weather professionals who see him as a threat.