If there has ever been a British summer – with its heatwaves, bouts of flash-flooding and even a once-in-a-generation eclipse – to remind us that we are all at the mercy of huge forces beyond our control, this is it. And now, it transpires that even the guardians at the gates, the meteorological soothsayers charged with interpreting and explaining every wandering isobar, are not immune. Because, never mind the drops of rain finally greening our grass after weeks of drought, the biggest change in the weather is happening along the BBC corridors. New director-general Matt Brittin has taken an axe to one of the organisation’s central offerings, the weather forecasts, shifting focus to digital and local reports, and away from the national bulletins that have been part of our lives since George Cowling made the first in-vision forecast in 1954. Weather forecaster Michael Fish was a household name. BBC Photosales This makes perfect sense. Brittin has been charged with saving £500 million at the same time as more and more of us reach for digital platforms …