On 12 Oct, 19:43, "Col" wrote:
"Graham Easterling" wrote in message

...

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.

Trouble is, when you are doing a *national* forecast there
probably isn't time to always mention what are in fact quite
local variances in temperatures between the north and
south coasts of Cornwall, significant though they might
well be.
What about the north & south coasts of Pembrokeshire
or north Kent Vs south Kent or the north Norfolk coast
and Essex?
There is a limit to the 'resolution' you can practically go
to in such a forecast.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

I think when differences are significant there's no great difficulty
in sticking say 14C over the north coast & 18C over the south. Doing
this and saying something like 'the highest temperatures being along
the south coast' is more informative than saying 'the finishing number
around 16C in Plymouth'. It's just a particularly useless thing to say
- unless you live in Plymouth.

I have known 8C difference between St Ives & Penzance (both ways -
depending on cloud/fog & wind direction) Minehead is in a different
world to Plymouth, with both Exmoor & Dartmoor in between.

And yes, I'm sure the same does apply elsewhere.

Graham
Penzance