It seems that alongside our national propensity to be completely incapable of coping with any kind of weather that strays slightly outside of the norm – I'm thinking of a warmer than usual summer which sees railway lines melt and Tube trains break down – our web sites also can't be dealing with unusual weather. The Met Office site has fallen down today after being pummeled by a volley of requests from panicking Brits; all terrified they won't be able to get to work tomorrow because Jack Frost is coming.

This is a perennial favourite for stories in the Internet Section of IT Week, and to be honest, it still will be until organisations put more time and resources into performance testing and site monitoring. Our inane British obsession with the weather is also fairly predictable; and still pretty sad if you ask me…it's frozen water for god's sake, get over it.