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Old February 1st 08, 11:45 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Tonight's BBC1 forecast - odd

Steve Loft wrote:

Graham Easterling wrote:

Agreed, but why specifically include Scilly in the warnings?, it's
not part of Cornwall after all. It was quite a talking point here -
with people expecting not just snow on the Islands, bit a lot of it
(as 60% chance of disruption implies).


I thought I had posted a reply, but I think I may have emailed it
somewhere instead.

I think the problem is that the MO have chosen a sub-region of SW
England called "Cornwall & Isles of Scilly", so any warning for any
part of that sub-region will have that title. I don't believe the
intention was to specifically include Scilly in the snow warning.
This just my guess; how anyone is supposed to know for sure, I don't
know.

I believe an overhaul of the warning output is in progress?


Well overdue IMHO :-( This morning's batch of so-called Early Warnings
are valid from the time of issue. That makes no sense to me.

Norman
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