"JJCMayes1" wrote in message
...
Not sure if this has been remarked upon before, but the Met
Office now
have in an easily accessed form, the climatological averages
for
1971-2000, alongside those for 1961-1990 at the following
page:-

http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/averages/index.html

I was planning to mention this myself this evening after
browsing through the
maps of 1971-2000 averages. This is probably a more valuable
educational
resource than the tabulated values (some oddly chosen sites
here) but - for
those who have not yet looked - the maps are at a 1km grid
resolution. Of
course, this means that there is a lot of spatial extrapolation,
and the role
of orography in the system is clear on most of the maps. Some of
the detail
might thus be said to spurious, but it is fascinating.

I'll bite my tongue and not comment on the content. But, Julian,
what
do you make of the boundaries used between different colours?
These are, presumably, rounded figures which approximate to quint
boundaries ... is this cartographically acceptable these days, is
it a
whim of the compilers who perhaps don't give a damn what is and
is not normal practice, or is it, ahem, best described otherwise
in
private? Or am I plain out of date?

Philip Eden