In article ,
Graham P Davis writes:
On 05/03/10 19:21, Dawlish wrote:
"From Monday (15th) until Friday (19th) March the weather becomes much
more unsettled with wind and rain in many western parts spreading
slowly southwards.

A wonderful piece of gibberish! What I gather from that is that there
will be no change from the 15th to the 19th with wind and rain limited
to the west throughout.


Presumably either "western" should have read "northern" or "southwards"
should have read "eastwards". Maybe it originally said "wind and rain in
many western and northern parts spreading slowly eastwards and
southwards", but some editor decided that it was too long and made a
ham-fisted attempt at shortening it.
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