On 12 Oct, 18:32, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Oct 12, 5:18*pm, "Les Hemmings" wrote:

Les Hemmings wrote:
PM has just started...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/1...nd_new_weathe_....

Stay tuned. We want to know what YOU think about our brand new weather
forecast.

It starts just after 17:55 BST... I hope it's the one they tried in the
style of the shipping forecast. That was very clear...

* * * I heard it - it was OK. *What they need to do now is to
eliminate the practice of using towns to represent fairly large
areas. *20°C in Southampton? *What about *Andover, then, people will
ask. *Why not just say Southern England, or central Southern England,
or Hampshire?
* * * Even so, an improvement. *I wonder if they read these threads.
If so, my apologies to Messrs Schafernaker and Tobyn. *I'm sure
they're terribly nice people and kind to animals.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Yes, this practice of using towns irritates me, I'm thoroughly p****d
off with being told, as the camera briefly swings across SW England,
that's it's going to be 16C in Plymouth. The temperature on the
opposing coasts of Devon/Cornwall is often so different they could, at
the very least, give some idea of the variance.

As it happens, it was 16C in Penzance today - same as Plymouth
apparently.

Graham
Penzance