There will be at least 25 million people in England very disappointed
with the weather in the first week of the school holidays. Hopefully
many of them will have gone to the West Country for their holidays.
(Yes, I know it's glorious there and in Wales!).
It would appear that the ex(eter)centric Countryfile forecast has been
poor for the second week running. I rewatched it just to make sure and
the headline was a much improved, warmer week, including here. Bear in
mind I am talking about the Anglia region in general. Last week was in
fact far better, lots of warm sunny spells, no wind, yes a couple of
heavy showers but a lot brighter. This week we have returned to the
Jan/Feb gloom with the plague of the N.Sea cloud. To be fair they did
mention early morning mist and cloud at times but this was expected to
readily burn away. Temps were generally in the mid 20's for most of the
week. Didn't even make 20C here yesterday and it is currently only 16C
here at 11.00 a.m.
It would appear that cloud amounts in High Pressure, based on some of
the winter forecasts as well, are the most difficult feature to predict
although at the moment it does look blindingly obvious on the sat pics.
Luckily I warned "nutter" of this last week. "Some cloud around at times
I would think with embedded and decaying fronts."
Still, time to improve with a forecast of sunshine and 26C for here
tomorrow. We will see.
Dave, S.Essex.