Headline news on the BBC 1 10 o'clock last night. "Its official it has
been the wettest June on record. " -

This has been widely reported in the press (no surprise) but I have not
heard any regional qualification. It wasn't up here or in many parts of
Scotland I would expect..


Makes you wonder perhaps about the accuracy of BBC 1's climate change
stuff?

brian
aberfeldy

"Brian Blair" wrote:

Headline news on the BBC 1 10 o'clock last night. "Its official it has
been the wettest June on record. " -

This has been widely reported in the press (no surprise) but I have not
heard any regional qualification. It wasn't up here or in many parts of
Scotland I would expect..

Worse, they have drawn a line at 1914, and now pretend that all
records taken before that simply do not exist. There may be good
reasons for this, although it is unlikely that they are relevant to
information provided to the media. However, the decision is not
(and has never to my knowledge been) explained.

By so doing they have -- probably unconsciously, though I could
easily be persuaded otherwise -- made my job (as first port of
call for many journalists on weather stories) much more difficult than
it ought to be.

Philip

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:11:18 GMT, Brian Blair
wrote:

It wasn't up here or in many parts of
Scotland I would expect..

Certainly not here.
--
Alan White
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Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

It wasn't up here or in many parts of
Scotland I would expect..

Certainly not here.
--
Alan White

Or here.

Graham
Penzance

Or here ...Woodford Green Essex

RonB
"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
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It wasn't up here or in many parts of
Scotland I would expect..

Certainly not here.
--
Alan White

Or here.

Graham
Penzance

I present Weather Watch for BBC Southern Counties Radio in west and east
Sussex each morning and my piece this morning did in fact point out that in
our part of the world it was not record breaking. I cited readings from the
area and illustrated that there have been wetter Junes down here. I did
explain though how wet some places have been recently such as Sheffield
compared to the Southeast.
At my own Surrey weather station 1998,1991 1987,1985 and 1980 were all much
wetter.
Incidentally Friday's Weather Watch will look at the great July 1797
superior mirage along parts of the Sussex coast when French boats and
harbours were seen high in the sky above Sussex beaches. On Monday I explain
the nightmare for brontophobics 9th/10th July 1923 when there were over 6950
crashes of thunder in London overnight. The cells responsible emanated from
Sussex and moved north. Rottingdean had 116mm of rain.
If any UK sci members are in the Bedford area I am talking about 500 years
of Weather at Mark Rutherford School tomorrow evening.

Ian Currie- editor of Weather eye magazine (which the latest issue number 24
has been held up due to too much weather literally) and Weather Watch
Presenter for the BBC.
www.frostedearth.com





"Brian Blair" wrote in message
...
Headline news on the BBC 1 10 o'clock last night. "Its official it has
been the wettest June on record. " -

This has been widely reported in the press (no surprise) but I have not
heard any regional qualification. It wasn't up here or in many parts of
Scotland I would expect..


Makes you wonder perhaps about the accuracy of BBC 1's climate change
stuff?

brian
aberfeldy

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:11:18 GMT, Brian Blair
wrote:

Headline news on the BBC 1 10 o'clock last night. "Its official it has
been the wettest June on record. " -

This has been widely reported in the press (no surprise) but I have not
heard any regional qualification. It wasn't up here or in many parts of
Scotland I would expect..

They'll mean London.

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:13:48 GMT, "Ian Currie"
wrote:

I present Weather Watch for BBC Southern Counties Radio in west and east
Sussex each morning and my piece this morning did in fact point out that in
our part of the world it was not record breaking.

I have no long term record here in West Fareham but comparing my 81mm
with the approx. 150 year Southampton record, and that will have been
similar long term to here, I have just over a 50% excess. Wet, yes,
but there must have been well over a dozen wetter Junes around here.

--
Dave
Fareham (West)

"Paul C" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:11:18 GMT, Brian Blair
wrote:

Headline news on the BBC 1 10 o'clock last night. "Its official it has
been the wettest June on record. " -

This has been widely reported in the press (no surprise) but I have not
heard any regional qualification. It wasn't up here or in many parts of
Scotland I would expect..

They'll mean London.
---------------------
Absolutely not. (34mm , 20 miles East of London) see also Ron's post. You
must get over this S.E. bias phobia. ;-)
Dave

In article ,
Paul C writes:
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:11:18 GMT, Brian Blair
wrote:

Headline news on the BBC 1 10 o'clock last night. "Its official it has
been the wettest June on record. " -

This has been widely reported in the press (no surprise) but I have not
heard any regional qualification. It wasn't up here or in many parts of
Scotland I would expect..

They'll mean London.

I think it's based on the Met Office's England & Wales Rainfall (EWR)
figure.
--
John Hall

"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)