内容摘要：A photo of Vinay's wife Himanshi, sitting near her husband's body following the attack, has been widely shared on social media.

A photo of Vinay's wife Himanshi, sitting near her husband's body following the attack, has been widely shared on social media.

Prof Angus recognises the rising popularity of weather influencers like Mr Brown's Wally's Weather as stemming from not just a broader trend of public mistrust towards mainstream media and government sources, but about filling gaps in coverage and relatability."Weather influencers have gained popularity, particularly in rural and regional areas, because they provide highly localised, real-time updates that mainstream media can often overlook," says Prof Angus.

"They engage directly with their audience, offering personalised analysis and responding to community concerns in a way that traditional news outlets typically don't."Their credibility has grown because they are seen as passionate, knowledgeable, and often deeply embedded in the communities they report on."Yet the issue with weather influencers, Prof Angus notes, is their tendency to scaremonger, as social media weather forecaster Higgins Storm Chasing, also based in Townsville, has been criticised for.

for predicting historic levels of rainfall and flooding to its one million Facebook followers, which didn't materialise.Higgins Storm Chasing, which has hired professional meteorologist and amateur tornado chaser Thomas Hinterdorfer, didn't respond to the BBC's request for an interview.

"Weather influencers are often prone to hyperbolic and exaggerated claims, as they are not held to the same standards or consequences as their mainstream and official government counterparts, which has led to claims of scaremongering, and propagation of misinformation," explains Prof Angus.

"What we have to understand is that they are part of an attention economy. The more eyes they have, the more engagement they see on their metrics. The bureau and governments are very reserved in putting out alerts and evacuation orders, because it only takes a few non-events for people to lose their trust in them," says Professor Angus.His funeral

was attended by hundreds of people, including fellow comedian and close friend Jim Davidson.In July last year, Jesús Cometa was shot at as he was driving through the Cauca Valley in southwest Colombia.

Gunmen on motorbikes pulled up alongside his car and sprayed it with bullets. Mr Cometa escaped uninjured but his bodyguard was hit."He still has a bullet lodged in his chest," he says.