"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
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"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
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Pleasant enough here, coolish breeze but strong sunshine. 18.9 at
13:00 so
might just top 20. I expect it will easily top 21 somewhere on the
south
coast. Saturday was a glorious day, slightly warmer and little wind.

... yes, these are the situations where your bit of Cornwall do well.

Most important of all the August
Bank holiday crowds will have gone. There is something about some of
the
people who visit Cornwall on August Bank holiday which distinguishes
them
from anybody else. The rest of the year it's fine, but an approaching
August
Bank holiday fills me with dread.

... to judge by the comments from our neighbours (for whom we were
looking after the house), the hoteliers in the next county along from
you (that's Devon, not Prince Edward Island) are hopping-mad with the
BBC and the Met Office for the coverage of recent weeks (& this is the
latter's first summer in Devon). It's an old story of course: a lot of
coverage of floods, heavy rain, poor weather etc., but in the Torbay
area (and perhaps along the south coast of Cornwall - though haven't
checked that), even if rain has been about, August can often come up
trumps - hence the Cornish Riviera Express! We used to get the same
complaints from touriest boards all around the coast in late summer -
tone down the doom/gloom, we're having a lovely summer! You can't win.

Martin.

You are right, the weather here has been much better than the forecasts, but
more particularly the press, have suggested. (Unless of course you were in
the Boscastle area). It was particularly annoying when I saw in the Sunday
papers reports of people queuing on the M5 on Saturday to leave rain soaked
Devon & Cornwall, when it had been such a lovely day on the coast. That's
one reason why a put a picture of St Ives taken Saturday afternoon on
www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/StIves.html , to show what it was actually
like.

August has been changeable (to say the least) but it hasn't been anywhere
near as wet here as in 1997. Also it's been warm, and on the coast at least,
fairly sunny between the showers. I suspect the sunshine figures on the
coast will be near normal as there has been none of that persistent mist you
can get here with more stable SW winds. As May & June were so good, it does
feel like a long, if unpredictable summmer.

Graham