ron button wrote:

Having read Philip Edens excellent piece in the Torygraph this morning about
the difficulty of forecasting persistent low cloud over (mostly eastern)
Britain, I confess to feeling extremely irritated by the cheerful burblings
of our weather masters,who have for the last few days been saying how nice
and summery this weekend was gonna be. As the High migrated west on Friday
it was obvious to even the most optimistic weather watcher that a chilly
northerly was about to set in with its attendant cloud ,so all the poor
unfortunates who had been trapped in inside jobs through a steamy week would
be very peed off as they huddled under their barbecue canopies trying to
pretend it was still summer. For some reason the Met Office must feel
responsible for issuing upbeat and cheerful outlooks despite the opposite
being likely ,as portrayed in the very British habit of praising our 'brave'
sports heroes of 'football 'cricket' and rugby' who normally come second.
Come on Met Office ,face facts ,we are British and can take it !!

RonB

PS Of course, none of this applies to Northerners and those in the south who
hate the sun and break out into a muck sweat when temperatures exceed 15C.! .

I had the misfortune of being in Sussex for the steamy hot day on Friday:-( The
cloudy skies and 15 deg in the Peak District this morning are much more my cup
of tea :-)

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org