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Old April 4th 08, 04:00 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Will Hand Will Hand is offline
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Default Penzance - Stupid Forecast

Hi Graham, what was your actual max. today?
Mine was +14.9C high up here in the Devon hills!
Sunny morning, but clouded up a bit this afternoon, another sea breeze for a
couple of hours.

Come to Dartmoor and enjoy the sunshine, LOL.

Mind you come Sunday it will be a different kettle of fish with the punters
all wrapped up braving the windchill and snow!

Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
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I've just looked at

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...t_weather.html

The forecast currently shows for Penzance:-
13:00 9C
16:00 9C
Now, I if there was persistent sea fog all day the AND the breeze was
onshore temperature could be held down to 10-11C (the sea
temperature). Any brief breaks would soon push it to 12 or 13.

BUT the wind is NNW - offshore, so low cloud at times certainly but no
sea fog. In fact the cloud's already breaking as it descends into the
Bay

I think this forecast is down to:-
1. Totally ignoring aspect (I've mentioned this before)
2. Total lack of data from the south Cornwall coast, and over
reliance of the nearby foggy north coast & hill top locations of
Camborne & St. Mawgan & Culdrose.
3. The fine tuning (mentioned by Will) being done by a mentally
deficient monkey thoroughly p****d off by having to write Shakespeare.

Graham
Penzance