"Dawlish" wrote in message
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Your problem with that is exactly where?

I can't really speak for Col, but I suspect that he's more sympathetic to
your forecasting attempts than you might think, as indeed I am. But rather
than trying to answer his question by misplaced obfuscation or bluster,
wouldn't it have been simpler and more honest just to say:

'All my forecasts can really do is to try to predict the broad pressure
pattern across NW Europe. Sometimes this allows some specifics of the UK
weather type to be forecast, but at other times, as now, there is too much
uncertainty in the detail to permit much more than the broad pressure
preview.'