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

[email protected] · August 30th 17, 04:13 PM posted to uk.sci.weather

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:57:58 +0100
Will Hand wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:40:00 +0000 (UTC)
wrote:

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
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on the rain radar it looks like the band of rain from the west which was
predicted to fade away instead intensified.

Sorry but that is simply not true. The MetO TV forecasts clearly indicated rain
coming in from the west today and persisting in the far SE. IIRC it was also

Not the one I saw yesterday. The rain over the SE was clearly a front that
was going to come in from France and the front in the east of england would
fade.

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Spud