On 3 Oct 2013 17:49:25 GMT, "Norman" wrote:
John Hall wrote:


Referring to the expected dry interval between rain this
afternoon and more
rain tonight, the young female weather presenter on the regional
BBC South
news programme (I think her name might have been Holly Green)
called it a
"suckers' gap". (In placing the apostrophe I've assumed that
there would
be more than one sucker.)


That's a phrase often used by marine weather forecasters briefing
North Sea
operators when discussing a transient ridge of high pressure
bringing a very
short interval of relatively light winds that's not long enough to
carry out
many weather sensitive operations.

And by aviation forecasters, when short-duration fast jets want to
leap in the air when there is an unexpected improvement in low-level
conditions.

--
Freddie
Castle Pulverbatch
Shropshire
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