I rarely watch tv news because in my opinion it's all hype, spin and hysteria as well as being limited to the tiny handful of items they want to show you, and I don't buy newspapers which are even worse, and politically biased too. (How do I manage? I skim through tv text news each day, picking out the bits that interest me.)
As for tv weather forecasts, I've more or less given up on them too. Even though meteorology is one of my interests, I still live in an era of isobars, fronts and barometric pressure..
They use a good chunk at the start telling us what weather we've already had or are having at the moment, and they even manage to get that wrong sometimes. Have you ever heard them apologise for making a complete cockup of it the previous day? Don't tell me how complex the UK weather is and how changeable it can be, I know that. Just look at the technology they have available these days.
Then they spend so long waffling on about Scotland and Northern Ireland (I have no intention of offending those of you from these regions) that by the time they have meandered their way down to the south, via Wales and the West, my attention has drifted away.
I don't want to rekindle any north-south hostilities, but the fact is that that the big area of the south-east around London, where something like a quarter of the UK's population lives, hardly ever gets a mention in forecasts. You watch, and see if I'm right.
Never mind about going for a walk, most people down here who watch it simply want to know if they can hang the washing out tomorrow, or go for a round of golf, but the forecasters are only interested in real weather, so we tend to get left out of it.