There I was, grafting away all last week to earn my pennies and feeling a
bit miffed that I wasn't able to make the most of all this lovely sunshine.
Still, not to worry, because we were being told to expect an even hotter
weekend with sunshine a-plenty.

So, with Sunday being billed as the hottest of the two days, we'd planned to
chill out in the garden and bring the weekend to a close with a BBQ.

Now I know that most of England was baking on Saturday, except in the north,
where I live. Here it was mostly dull and overcast and was interspersed with
patchy rain. Sunday has been even worse... still overcast with a couple of
showers during the morning then continuous light rain since lunchtime.

Far from sizzling, it's been rather cool and a generally disappointing
weekend if like me, you were hoping to make the most of the promised
sunshine. Did I not pay full attention to the weather forecasts or was this
dismal outlook not expected?

Regards... David Allan.

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:44:52 GMT, David Allan wrote:

Now I know that most of England was baking on Saturday, except in the
north, where I live.
snip
Did I not pay full attention to the weather forecasts or was this
dismal outlook not expected?

The former, the forecasts I saw on Thursday gave a very definite
north/south split.

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:44:52 GMT, David Allan wrote:

Now I know that most of England was baking on Saturday, except in the
north, where I live.
snip
Did I not pay full attention to the weather forecasts or was this
dismal outlook not expected?

The former, the forecasts I saw on Thursday gave a very definite
north/south split.

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

The latter - cloudy and windy in the south east where I was from midday
on - not forecast to be cloudy till evening. (10.00am forecast)
Dave

David Allan wrote:

Far from sizzling, it's been rather cool and a generally disappointing
weekend if like me, you were hoping to make the most of the promised
sunshine. Did I not pay full attention to the weather forecasts or was this
dismal outlook not expected?

Neither. You just placed your faith in the wrong forecaster. For a
greater reliability, see Will Hand's weekly forecasts (issued on this
newsgroup on a Thursday) and Darren Prescott's "Today's model
interpretation" (daily on this newsgroup).


--
Howard Neil

"David Allan" wrote in message
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Far from sizzling, it's been rather cool and a generally disappointing
weekend if like me, you were hoping to make the most of the promised
sunshine. Did I not pay full attention to the weather forecasts or was this
dismal outlook not expected?

Saturday was OK here, max of 24.8C you can't complain about.
But it was only really sunny in the morning, the afternoon was mostly
cloudy. Sunday was dismal. Or at least dismal compared to the forecasts
from last Thursday. Then, the rain was expected in the late afternoon/
early evening. It started around 11am. And continued (albeit light and
patchy) for much of the day. I could see the forecasts backtracking on the
rain's arrival over the intervening days.

Col
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Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.