"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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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.

Disappointing is certainly the best description I've heard compared to any
of the main stream forecasts.
After 2 Nil sunshine days quite widely over East Anglia the repeated
description seems to be to describe it as Rather Cloudy.

Last nights BBC local forecast was a bit more dramatic calling it very
cloudy for today but still had a caption behind the lady saying Rather
Cloudy !

More (and worse) to come?
Todays BBC Web forecast for my Post Code says White Cloud whilst tomorrow
actaually has Grey Cloud.,

I think there is always a tendancy to play down poor weather in this region
for fear of upsetting the coastal resorts, who could possibly now make a
play on the welcome cloudiness in the area to stop those nasty suns rays
frizzling all the skins of holidaymaking children now released into the
fresh air.

NSS Mid Suffolk