‘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 pseudo­science, 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.

Anna Ellis

THE purchase of own­brand supermarket products has maintained an upward trend in recent years and has continued to gain prominence in 2023. This is according to the third edition of the ALDI Own Brand Study in Spain.

Spanish households spend 43.5 per cent of their total budget on own­brand supermarket products, 1.5 percentage points more than in 2022 and 3.4 points more than in 2021. In other words, own brand already accounts for more than four out of every €10 of purchases of packaged products.

In terms of annual expenditure, Spanish households spend an average of €1,132 per year on own­brand products, 14 per cent more than in 2022 (€141 more). In 2023, 46 per cent of Spaniards claim to have increased their consumption of own­brand products compared to 2022, an increase of 15 percentage points compared to 2022 and 2021.

Among those who recognise that they have increased their consumption of these products in the last 12 months, eight out of 10 say they have