Weather Banter - View Single Post - Met office rain prediction for SE off again

[email protected] · August 30th 17, 02:40 PM posted to uk.sci.weather

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 05:56:05 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:
I usually don't rise to this kind of message (I usually post on another new=
sgroup) but today I will. Spud, I saw your message first earlier this morni=
ng - at that time I nearly replied with two words - 'look west'. You clearl=
y checked the radar imagery and correctly saw the showers to the east of Lo=
ndon. Just as forecast yesterday. To the west, the reactivated front was a=
lready spreading rain east across southern England. As forecast yesterday. =
Careful viewing of yesterday's forecasts would have revealed that the rain=
in the SE was basically going to come from the front moving east rather th=
an from the showers.=20

Yes, but it didn't. See below.

Here in north Surrey it has rained for the last 4 hours, quite heavily in t=
he last hour. It is soon to clear. You do not reveal where you live.=20

London area. Yes, its raining now, but instead of a band of rain that came
in from france - which actually looked like it headed off to belgium instead -
on the rain radar it looks like the band of rain from the west which was
predicted to fade away instead intensified.

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Spud