"Jon O'Rourke" wrote in message ...
"Nick Whitelegg" wrote in message
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For the last few days, the charts for the weekend have been suggesting
pressure close to 1024mb for the south, with a few weak fronts,
suggesting a couple of days of dry if rather cloudy conditions.
Today's newspaper forecast for central southern England said almost
exactly that.

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I suppose the moral of this is to expect heavy rain whenever there are
fronts in the vicinity, even if pressure is high....

Nick

I wouldn't ! I'm puzzled by the forecast in your newspaper, out of interest
can you reveal which paper and who provides the forecast ?

Was the Telegraph (BTW in case anyone incorrectly tries to guess my
political persuasion :-) it was just the one with the most convenient
forecast to look at [on the back page]).

Still puzzled as to why such significant rain should fall when
pressure was 1020-1024mb. Obviously the forecasters know something
which can't be gleaned from the pressure charts....

Nick