JamesB wrote:

"Dave.C" wrote in message
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Why the chuckle, Neil? Isn't that feasible at this stage - or were you
just
pleased to see it?

Dave
"nguk" wrote in message
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Had a chuckle this morning reading the met office 10-day outlook for
South-East England:

"Becoming rather cold with a risk of very cold conditions developing."
.

Depends on your definition of "rather cold" really...

In days of yore, when the Met Office computers were ECL or TTL rather
than high speed CMOS, forecast expressions such as cold, rather cold,
very cold, mild, exceptionally mild, warm etc were very strictly
defined in terms of the deviation from the seasonal average. This
order was held in the pages of the venerable "Met Office Manual for
Forecasts to the General Public" version 7(i)a (or some-such) and woe
betide any maverick forecaster showing any individuality, using words
or expressions such as "showers pecking at the coast".

Martin