"redtube" wrote in message
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usual BBC cock up the Shetlands temps next Wednesday.......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/...y_06071212.jpg
lol or can it be?

On Thursday evening just gone, I checked the BBC 24 forecast for Sunderland
on Friday and it proclaimed it was going to be a day of unbroken sunshine
and no cloud cover at all. It wasn't an entirely unpleasant day, but there
was very little going in the way of sunshine and lots and lots of clouds.
Today, Saturday, the summary is still showing a big sun symbol for
Sunderland and a temperature of 21C. It's now 18.30, it's been cloudy all
day and started spitting rain at around 16.00... the temperature has been
quite cool and no where near the optimistic 21C.

The lesson seems to be that you take these 'forecast's with a pinch of salt
because all too often they appear to be wide of the mark.

Might as well also have a rant about the way that the 'national' forecasts
coming from London seem to forget that they are being targeted at the UK and
not just the South East. I have lost count during this last week, the number
of times that forecasters have been going on about the heatwave as if we're
all experiencing it. I think it was Friday when the BBC weather announcer
proclaimed how 'we' would all be welcoming the cooler, fresher weather and
how it would mean we could all have a more comfortable night's sleep. Well,
up here in the Northeast of England, we've been nice and cool ALL WEEK
(apart from a bit of warmth on Thursday evening). No problems sleeping at
all, thank you!

Surely, these weather lads and lassies can prepare a script which reflects
the fact that someone listening in the Outer Hebrides doesn't need to be
told that they will be thankful the heatwave is coming to an end. Too often
the forecasters use the word 'we', in the sense that it's 'us... here in the
south.' To avoid alienating people, why can't they just say 'if you live in
southeast your weather will be... but if you're living in the northwest
you're going to experience...' etc.
Likewise 'people who have been wilting in the heat this last week will be
pleased to hear there is cooler weather on the way...'. NOT 'we', which
assumes that everyone listening or watching across the whole of the UK has
had exactly the same weather!