On Mar 23, 1:51*pm, Dawlish wrote:
I hope the SE is faring better than the SW today. Driving drizzle/
light rain in a force 4, gusting stronger, southerly all day since
0900. Foggy; visibility has been 100m at times; 200m presently.

Altogether foul. A day for staying in and avoiding the weather.

You're telling me. If the forecast is correct 7 of the 8 days from
last Thursday to this Thursday will have this damp, gloomy weather:
bad going for November (and even last year's very disturbed November)
never mind "spring" (?)
The problem seems to be the wind is "stuck in the wrong direction",
blowing a constant stream of ghastly cyclonic southerlies in . The
hope is that after Friday the whole pressure pattern shifts eastwards
and we'll get more in the way of polar-maritime or even, at times,
arctic-maritime air, which, while not exactly the prolonged warm sunny
spell we need after the poor late winter, will be much more bearable
than what we have at present.

Nick