"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
ups.com...
The last week (Weds 31st May - Tuesday 6th of June) has been remarkble
for the amount of sunshine in west Cornwall. Apart from a little thin
high cloud on Sunday it's been close to the maximum possible. - Almost
ceratinly around 105 hours for the week.


Hi,

I agree Graham as I've once again been down Newquay way at the weekend and
arrived back this very pm, glorious weather indeed.

However I have a gripe, I do hope that people never take heed of the hourly
ceefax (page 404) reports as you would think the weekend had been quite a
different story. On numerous occasions over the past few days, St. Mawgan
(Newquay) was reporting various observations of partly cloudy/sunny
intervals/cloudy/fog/clear (at 7pm?) Well the chap/chapess doing these
observations needs to find another occupation. My caravan location, approx.
21/2 miles north of St. Mawgan, indicated the only possible description that
may have been correct at the time was the Sea Mist report (reported as Fog)
for a couple of hours on Sunday morning. A photograph of a beetroot
coloured torso can be sent to the observer if required

Why are these reports so misleading and is she/he an anti-tourist if there
is such a thing. If I had counted any sun interrupting clouds over the past
four days that may have been around, it would have numbered no more than a
dozen and they were inland.

Whinge over.

Sunburnt Tony
Newbury, Berkshire