"Hugh Newbury" wrote in message
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On 28/08/10 22:22, jbm wrote:
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Good Lord. This must be a first. Northampton has had almost twice as much
rain this month than Dorset. We're up to 148.2mm so far.

Jim, it seems the weather in Dorset often fails to copy what happens in
Devon/Cornwall on the one hand and Hants etc OTOH. Dorset is often lumped
in with 'The Southwest' or 'The West Country' (eg Somerset), where really
it has its own climate. For one thing the coast runs further north than
the coast of Devon. Hants is no doubt affected by the Isle of Wight. Even
EDorset is different from WDorset: ask Martin. I think too that the narrow
steep valleys of WDorset have an effect on the weather, though exactly how
is another matter.

But then I'm not a meteorologist!

Hugh

I lived and worked in Dorset for several years, doing loads of construction
on Bournemouth seafront and in Portland Dockyard (as it was then), and the
water mains in the middle of the county (Winterbourne, Milbourne & Dewlish).
And in all that time I just could not get a hold of what the weather was up
to. Sunny one day, freezing the next, snow when it was least expected, and
Cornwall type rain - that is horizontal. :-) I spent a few weeks in
Sherbourne a couple of years ago, and was pleased to see nothing had
changed. And it beats me why they chose Bournemouth as a major holiday
centre back in Victorian times. Or has the weather changed that much in 150
years?

jim, Northampton