usual BBC cock up the Shetlands temps next Wednesday.......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/...y_06071212.jpg
lol or can it be?
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redtube writes

usual BBC cock up the Shetlands temps next Wednesday.......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/...y_06071212.jpg
lol or can it be?

I doubt the Shetlands have recorded a temperature that high since their
records began!
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Paul Hyett (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

"redtube" wrote in message
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usual BBC cock up the Shetlands temps next Wednesday.......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/...y_06071212.jpg
lol or can it be?

On Thursday evening just gone, I checked the BBC 24 forecast for Sunderland
on Friday and it proclaimed it was going to be a day of unbroken sunshine
and no cloud cover at all. It wasn't an entirely unpleasant day, but there
was very little going in the way of sunshine and lots and lots of clouds.
Today, Saturday, the summary is still showing a big sun symbol for
Sunderland and a temperature of 21C. It's now 18.30, it's been cloudy all
day and started spitting rain at around 16.00... the temperature has been
quite cool and no where near the optimistic 21C.

The lesson seems to be that you take these 'forecast's with a pinch of salt
because all too often they appear to be wide of the mark.

Might as well also have a rant about the way that the 'national' forecasts
coming from London seem to forget that they are being targeted at the UK and
not just the South East. I have lost count during this last week, the number
of times that forecasters have been going on about the heatwave as if we're
all experiencing it. I think it was Friday when the BBC weather announcer
proclaimed how 'we' would all be welcoming the cooler, fresher weather and
how it would mean we could all have a more comfortable night's sleep. Well,
up here in the Northeast of England, we've been nice and cool ALL WEEK
(apart from a bit of warmth on Thursday evening). No problems sleeping at
all, thank you!

Surely, these weather lads and lassies can prepare a script which reflects
the fact that someone listening in the Outer Hebrides doesn't need to be
told that they will be thankful the heatwave is coming to an end. Too often
the forecasters use the word 'we', in the sense that it's 'us... here in the
south.' To avoid alienating people, why can't they just say 'if you live in
southeast your weather will be... but if you're living in the northwest
you're going to experience...' etc.
Likewise 'people who have been wilting in the heat this last week will be
pleased to hear there is cooler weather on the way...'. NOT 'we', which
assumes that everyone listening or watching across the whole of the UK has
had exactly the same weather!

Might as well also have a rant about the way that the
'national' forecasts coming from London seem to forget that
they are being targeted at the UK and not just the South East.
I have lost count during this last week, the number of times
that forecasters have been going on about the heatwave as if
we're all experiencing it. I think it was Friday when the BBC
weather announcer proclaimed how 'we' would all be welcoming
the cooler, fresher weather and how it would mean we could all
have a more comfortable night's sleep. Well, up here in the
Northeast of England, we've been nice and cool ALL WEEK (apart
from a bit of warmth on Thursday evening). No problems
sleeping at all, thank you!

Surely, these weather lads and lassies can prepare a script
which reflects the fact that someone listening in the Outer
Hebrides doesn't need to be told that they will be thankful
the heatwave is coming to an end. Too often the forecasters
use the word 'we', in the sense that it's 'us... here in the
south.' To avoid alienating people, why can't they just say
'if you live in southeast your weather will be... but if
you're living in the northwest you're going to experience...'
etc.
Likewise 'people who have been wilting in the heat this last
week will be pleased to hear there is cooler weather on the
way...'. NOT 'we', which assumes that everyone listening or
watching across the whole of the UK has had exactly the same
weather!

Hear, Hear, in spades!

Anne (not in the south-east of England)

08/07/2006 21:10:39
Paul Hyett wrote in message


In message ,
redtube writes

usual BBC cock up the Shetlands temps next Wednesday.......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/...y_06071212.jpg
lol or can it be?

I doubt the Shetlands have recorded a temperature that high since
their
records began!
--
Paul Hyett (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Warmest ever on Fair Isle is 20.2C (1975) while at Lerwick it is 23.
3C (1982), though there was an unofficial 27.8C reported from
Sumburgh Head Lighthouse back in 1910.
Warmest so far this year 16.2C at c0800z on Thursday 6th July.
Dave
Fair Isle - THE cool place to be!

"Dave Wheeler" wrote in message
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Warmest ever on Fair Isle is 20.2C (1975) while at Lerwick it is 23.
3C (1982), though there was an unofficial 27.8C reported from
Sumburgh Head Lighthouse back in 1910.

Wasn't that the time when Shetland was by far the warmest place
in the country when bizzarely some hot air had tracked all the way
up there from Eastern Europe?

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.

"David Allan" wrote in message
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Likewise 'people who have been wilting in the heat this last week will be
pleased to hear there is cooler weather on the way...'. NOT 'we', which
assumes that everyone listening or watching across the whole of the UK has
had exactly the same weather!

Or when we are told to be thankful for the rain to ease the drought
situation. Sometimes they qualify this by saying 'In the South' or
'For those that need it' but often it's just a blanket 'we' need the rain.

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.

In message , Dave
Wheeler writes

I doubt the Shetlands have recorded a temperature that high since
their
records began!

Warmest ever on Fair Isle is 20.2C (1975) while at Lerwick it is 23.
3C (1982), though there was an unofficial 27.8C reported from
Sumburgh Head Lighthouse back in 1910.

Presumably someone left the thermometer next to the lighthouse light.
--
Paul Hyett (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

In message , David Allan
writes

On Thursday evening just gone, I checked the BBC 24 forecast for Sunderland
on Friday and it proclaimed it was going to be a day of unbroken sunshine
and no cloud cover at all. It wasn't an entirely unpleasant day, but there
was very little going in the way of sunshine and lots and lots of clouds.
Today, Saturday, the summary is still showing a big sun symbol for
Sunderland and a temperature of 21C. It's now 18.30, it's been cloudy all
day and started spitting rain at around 16.00... the temperature has been
quite cool and no where near the optimistic 21C.

The lesson seems to be that you take these 'forecast's with a pinch of salt
because all too often they appear to be wide of the mark.

Actually, the lesson I've learned is to take forecasts I *like* with a
pinch of salt, while you can bet the farm one ones you *don't like*
being correct.

Seriously though - high pressures seem far easier to predict than lows,
so once one of the former appears on an LRF, it rarely if ever fails to
materialise.
--
Paul Hyett (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
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Seriously though - high pressures seem far easier to predict than lows,
so once one of the former appears on an LRF, it rarely if ever fails to

That's funny, I've always founhd the opposite to be the case.
Low pressure or at least zonal conditions seems to be easily
predictable and almost always comes off but high pressure
can be very elusive on the long range pressure charts.

Not that I look at the T+384 GFS charts you understand

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.