On 16/10/2018 08:20, Nicholas Randall wrote:
On Monday, 15 October 2018 16:54:17 UTC+1, Graham wrote:
Met office must be losing it! Today was supposed to be a cloudy
start then sunny spells by early afternoon, fat chance of any sun
today. Overcast with rain and drizzle all day. Tomorrows forecast
says the same as it did today, 'some drizzle then
brighter'............. I wonder!!


Graham (Weston Coyney) North West Midlands.

Eastern coastal districts should mean places on the east coast.
Birmingham is not in that region and should not be included in it. I
was reading the West Midlands forecast on the Met Office website two
days ago, and it mentioned the coasts. I think that was wrong as no
part of the West Midlands is on the coast.


As I pointed out in my earlier post, that's what happens with
easterlies. I noticed when I was a child that forecasters could not
handle them correctly and they still haven't figured them out.

Another annoying thing about easterlies I found is that I occasionally
experienced them in north-westerlies. Never could figure out why, on the
odd occasion in a light to moderate NW gradient, the surface wind over E
Anglia by about nine o'clock (shortly after telling anyone who asked
that the runway to use would be 24 and not 06) would have slowly swung
east of north, thereafter persisting as north-easterly for the rest of
the day. Not a sea breeze - at least not a typical one - and no visible
reason for ageostrophic motion, but surface air would flow directly from
low to high pressure. Maybe the weather gods had it in for me.

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