"Col" wrote in message
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"Richard Dixon" wrote in message
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Dear All,

Can I have some of what Daniel Corbett's on? Was very insistent on
calling
the high pressure around at the moment a "sandbag".

He was calling it a rock in the middle of a river around which the water
(depressions) was being diverted the other day.

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.


In all respect, probably not a bad way of verbally illustrating a 'blocking
setup' for those who only want to know what the weather will do and are not
interested in the technical terms, a point only being made yesterday on
Radio 4 regarding the use of confusing (to the general public) terms in
weather forecasts.

As I drove to work yesterday, the H & W forecaster just talked about the
blocking high controlling the present weather. I obviously knew exactly what
he meant but I only thought that many listeners probably wouldn't know what
he was talking about.

--
Pete

Please take my dog out twice to e-mail

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