Hi,
well as the local? BBC forecasters keep telling us, its gonna Rain this weekend.
First it was Saturday pm, then Sunday pm.
It is now 16.45 and there is no sign of rain at all, just more sunshine, as the
temperature reached 20C here today.

Cheers

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Leeds UK




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I have often found, well certainly here in the SE, the first autumn rains
slow to arrive. For some reason I have this date of the 9th September in my
mind for that first transition from summer to autumn. Obviously there's no
'real' correllation with the weather and this date and looking at the
current models it looks as though we may have to wait another week. Also
September is often a dry month and I can recal many years when September was
dominated by anticyclones. Don't dispair as the rain and wet will arrive and
we would have entered that long damp and dark period which so depresses us
in this country until the lights and hope of a white christmas arrive. I
think I've said enough!

Keith (Southend)

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"Bob H" wrote in message
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Hi,
well as the local? BBC forecasters keep telling us, its gonna Rain
this weekend.
First it was Saturday pm, then Sunday pm.
It is now 16.45 and there is no sign of rain at all, just more sunshine,
as the
temperature reached 20C here today.

Cheers

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Bob H
Leeds UK




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"Bob H" wrote in message
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Hi,
well as the local? BBC forecasters keep telling us, its gonna Rain
this weekend.

[WR] Blue skies, outside current temp. 23.2 C pressure falling and not a
hint of rain.

I`ve got some intresting cloud formations tho.

I`ll post them on a seperate thread.
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Petel .
02 M2 Buell.
C90-ZZR.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peteh1/website/index.html

"Bob H" wrote in message
.. .
Hi,
well as the local? BBC forecasters keep telling us, its gonna Rain
this weekend.
First it was Saturday pm, then Sunday pm.
It is now 16.45 and there is no sign of rain at all, just more sunshine,
as the
temperature reached 20C here today.
Cheers
Bob H

Well Bob, I hate to say of the met office "not often right, but wrong
again".
Confirming a beautiful day in Leeds, 21.6C here, and sunny most of the day.
Never heard so many people say in general conversation today how hopeless
the weather forecasters are in Britain. I was put off going to Derbyshire
today by the dismal forecast yesterday and the preceding days, I should have
known better. A post earlier in the week asked what time the rain would
arrive today, as he was having an outside event around noon, forget who it
was but I nearly posted back saying " as rain if promised, heavy and wind
too, it will probably be sunny and warm. And of course it was.

Perhaps a few apologies are in order from the men with the multi million
pound [tax payers money] computers. If a manager/team in other industry got
it so wrong they would probably be fired. I have lost count this summer with
the number of times the forecast, sometimes for only a few hours ahead, has
been utterly wrong.

Regards
BrianT [South Leeds] Still 19.8C, very dry with lots of evening sunshine.

"Malcolm Ogilvie" wrote in message
...
Look at the radar and satellite maps on www.bbc.co.uk/weather/live/ and
you will see that there is plenty of rain to the west of you, it's
raining here now in western Scotland, though seemingly less than was
originally forecast and moving more slowly. I doubt you will escape it
altogether.

here in south Cumbria it rained Friday night, then a bit over Saturday
night, and is raining now.

Jim Webster

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Malcolm Ogilvie

"Jim Webster" wrote in message
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"MichaelJP" wrote in message
...
Well Bob, I hate to say of the met office "not often right, but wrong

I don't blame the met for getting it wrong, but surely a drastic warning
like the one above should have been tempered by the confidence level of
the
forecast.

Will anyone get hauled over the coals for this one?

- Michael

I think you have to accept that advice is worth exactly what you,
personally, paid for it.

Jim Webster

Yes, true, but two points spring to mind:-

- as taxpayers don't we all pay for the met service, or is it entirely
self-funding?

- if I had paid for a private forecast, would it have been different?

- Michael

On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 17:15:58 +0000, BrianT wrote:
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Well Bob, I hate to say of the met office "not often right, but wrong
again".
Confirming a beautiful day in Leeds, 21.6C here, and sunny most of the day.
Never heard so many people say in general conversation today how hopeless
the weather forecasters are in Britain. I was put off going to Derbyshire
today by the dismal forecast yesterday and the preceding days, I should have
known better. A post earlier in the week asked what time the rain would
arrive today, as he was having an outside event around noon, forget who it
was but I nearly posted back saying " as rain if promised, heavy and wind
too, it will probably be sunny and warm. And of course it was.

snipped

Regards
BrianT [South Leeds] Still 19.8C, very dry with lots of evening sunshine.

Hi Brian and others.
Well on Monday at 17.30 we still have not had any rain at all, althought
it was spotting at approx 16.30. That lasted for about 5 mins.
Oh well, someday perhaps. The hose will have to come out yet again.

Bob H
Leeds UK

Hi Brian and others.
Well on Monday at 17.30 we still have not had any rain at all, althought
it was spotting at approx 16.30. That lasted for about 5 mins.
Oh well, someday perhaps. The hose will have to come out yet again.

Bob H
Leeds UK

Counted the spots Bob, 28 here ;-)
Brian
S Leeds