SCARLETT Moffatt has been ridiculed by the Met Office after she shared her so-called "mind-blowing" weather app claim about rainfall.
The 30-year-old TV personality took to TikTok earlier this week, sharing the revelation about weather apps with half a million of her fans.
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She said: "So all this time that I've like been caught in the rain and people are like, 'Why haven't you brought a jacket?' and stuff like that…
"It's because I've just found out that on the weather app, when it says '30 percent rain', I thought that meant '30 percent chance of rain'.
"It doesn't mean that, it means that 30 percent of your area will be covered in rain."
Ms Moffatt shared her conspiracy to her 560,000 followers – who were all equally stunned at the weather app hack.
However, a weatherman for the Met Office has confirmed that the information Scarlett put out was in fact wrong.
In a video posted on TikTok, weatherman Alex Deakin said: "You may have had your mind blown recently by talk of percentage of rainfall on your weather app.
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"We're sorry about that, but on this one, actually, Scarlett is wrong.
"Certainly for the Met Office app, the percentage of rain means the chance of rain at that time for that location.
"So 60 percent means a 60 percent chance of rain, 40 percent chance of dry.
"There are different ways of expressing percentages and in the USA they do use the area one, but generally not here in the UK.
"So if you've got the Met Office app, that's one less thing to worry about; mind unblown."
On the Met Office website, the forecast of rainfall is clearly explained.
It states: "In weather forecasting, suppose the Met Office says that the probability of rain tomorrow in your region is 80 percent.
"They aren't saying that it will rain in 80 per cent of the land area of your region, and not rain in the other 20 per cent. Nor are they saying it will rain for 80 per cent of the time.
"What they are saying is there is an 80 per cent chance of rain occurring at any one place in the region, such as in your garden."
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