On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:38:09 +0100, Dave Ludlow
wrote:


It's turned out to be a dry and lovely warm day here, essentially the
same feel as yesterday (max 25.5 yesterday, 23.8 today). Now that
wasn't a problem as i suspected that this could happen but the bulk of
the population would just think the forecast was completely wrong. It
was pretty obvious that here, if the showers and cloudiness didn't
materialise (always distinctly possible in these conditions) the
warmth would hang on except on West facing coasts (Solent MRSC).

So WHY didn't the forecasts mention this as a caveat? Sometimes, I
despair.

Just to add to this (and i rarely criticize forecasts), yesterday
evening on TV and the Met Office website, the local forecast for
today, here, was for dry conditions, pleasantly warm (21 deg C) and no
rain until tomorrow morning. I planned accordingly for a late
afternoon t-shirted bike ride. Well it's been raining on and off
(albeit lightly) since before 4pm and there's moderate rain close by.
Max temp 19.4 deg C so at least that was close enough to the forecast.

So the 12-24 hour regional forecasts *for here* have been
significantly wrong for the last 2 days. I wonder if they are going
for a hat-trick?

--
Dave
Fareham