It's Hardly Unexpected

Given how accurate the English weather forecasters are, but it seems Brits know bugger all about the weather abroad either.  A new survey has found that:

• nearly one fifth of Britons think it “never” rains in Africa
• almost half of UK residents claimed it “rarely snows” anywhere in France, despite the French Alps attracting millions of skiers each winter
• while one in eight people believed rainforests are found in Greenland
• more than 70 per cent of respondents incorrectly stated it was “always hot” in the Sahara Desert- in fact temperatures at night often drop below freezing
• and 17% said there were no volcanoes on the Canary Islands
• when asked to specify the characteristics of a monsoon season, 1 in 10 people said it was “a time when birds migrate south for winter”
• while 68% thought there has “never” been a tornado in Britain

But if you're cringing at that, it gets worse.  A previous survey revealed that 54% of Britons thought Timbuktu was an imaginary place, and almost one in ten believed Kazakhstan did not exist.  More than a third claimed that Atlantis could be visited on a holiday to Greece...