Graham Easterling wrote:
On Jul 27, 11:17 am, Dave Cornwell wrote:
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.

Not here Dave. There was an appalling spell from 17th - 20th, when it
was exceptionally cool as well as miserable, dull & basically sun
free. But... the last 7 days (including today) have seen sunny
afternoons along the south coast of Cornwall. (Spoilt on the north
coast by patchy sea fog 25th/26th). The 1st time this summer there's
been 7 consecutive sunny afternoons in Penzance. Our weather's always
out of step with yours.

It's getting so predictable there's no need to grab the board as soon
as the sun comes out. Certainly no need now as there's little surf.
Current view across Mount's Bay http://www.mounthaven.co.uk/webcam.htm
and the sun baked Minack http://www.minack.com/webcams.htm

July was looking to be notably cool, but the recent weather is causing
some changes to that. Also, some very high UV levels recently,
currently 8 on Scilly, as it was yesterday, despite some sea mist.

Graham
Penzance

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"Hopefully many of them will have gone to the West Country for their
holidays.
(Yes, I know it's glorious there and in Wales!)."

;-) ;-)