Tudor Hughes wrote:
hudson wrote:
I do apologise if this has been mentioned before but I am starting to get
very frustrated by weather forecasts on the BBC saying " temperatures will
be about average for the time of year "

1 This assumes that I have a table of averages to hand
2 This assumes I am a meteorologist with a good knowledge of regional
averages
3 This assumes I am a meteorologist with a bad memory but a list of tables
to hand
4 Assumes I am too stupid to understand a scientific scale of any sort
5 Assumes I am too stupid to care

Racked off

Stuart Hudson

I really can't see the problem. Unless you are a recent
immigrant from a place with a very different climate or are less than
about 10 years old you will know what "normal" is for your area and
time of year. People do. Well, the temperature is going to be "about
that". No heatwave, no cool northerlies. There are far worse aspects
of the language of weather forecasts than that one.

Tudor Hughes.


Here's what I'd call an "average" maximum temperature, the figures in
brackets are extreme maxima one could reasonably expect to see from
time to time:

Late Dec, Jan & Feb: 3-8C (-2C, 13C)
Mar and early April: 8-12C (2C, 20C)
Mid & late April: 12-16C (7C, 25C)
May and early June: 16-20C (12C, 28C)
Late June, Jul, Aug, early Sep: 20-24C (16C, 30C)
Mid & late Sep: 16-20C (12C, 26C)
Oct: 12-16C (8C, 21C)
Nov and early Dec: 6-12C (0C, 16C)

That's based on the climate here in Shrewsbury, since I moved here in
1987. I notice that I sense it's easier to get well-above average
maxima in spring than autumn for some reason.

Edmund