Temperature has dropped to 10.5C from about 1.30 pm and rainfall in range
4-12mm, especially to North and East of County.

Dave

Dave
The temp in my southwestern corner of Essex fell from a max of 13.5C at 8am
to a min of 9.2C at 1-30,and that was just 30 minutes after the prat on
Radio four was babbling on about the max will only reach 15 or 16C this
afternoon !
..
They really should get out more


RonB

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
Temperature has dropped to 10.5C from about 1.30 pm and rainfall in range
4-12mm, especially to North and East of County.

Dave

In message , Ron Button
writes
Dave
The temp in my southwestern corner of Essex fell from a max of 13.5C at 8am
to a min of 9.2C at 1-30,and that was just 30 minutes after the prat on
Radio four was babbling on about the max will only reach 15 or 16C this
afternoon !
.
They really should get out more


RonB

Similar picture here in Chalfont St Giles, Rob.

Since 0900z the min has been 8.9c at 1230z and the max 11.1c at 1515z.
At the time of typing this (1615z) it is back down to 9.9c. There hasn't
been much in the way of rain, though. Only 1 mm between 09z and 12z and
nothing measurable since then. Certainly a lot colder than forecast.

Norman
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Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles 85m a.s.l.
England

In message , Norman Lynagh
writes
In message , Ron Button
writes
Dave
The temp in my southwestern corner of Essex fell from a max of 13.5C at 8am
to a min of 9.2C at 1-30,and that was just 30 minutes after the prat on
Radio four was babbling on about the max will only reach 15 or 16C this
afternoon !
.
They really should get out more


RonB

Similar picture here in Chalfont St Giles, Rob.

Or even Ron :-)

Norman.
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Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles 85m a.s.l.
England

In article ,
Ron Button writes:
The temp in my southwestern corner of Essex fell from a max of 13.5C at 8am
to a min of 9.2C at 1-30,and that was just 30 minutes after the prat on
Radio four was babbling on about the max will only reach 15 or 16C this
afternoon !
.
They really should get out more

Nine Ridge did much better on the 6:57am forecast this morning,
mentioning East Anglia as going to have a chilly day and suggesting a
maximum for Norwich of around 11C IIRC.
--
John Hall

"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

They really should get out more


RonB

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....and perhaps on a more serious note they should. Obviously it's not
neccessary most of the time but how often have we watched the forecast
shouting "no it's bleeding not!" Maybe if it was compulsory to do a now
forecast in their own location before going on air it would prevent these
occasional obvious gaffs.
Dave

On May 14, 5:13 pm, "Ron Button" wrote:
Dave
The temp in my southwestern corner of Essex fell from a max of 13.5C at 8am
to a min of 9.2C at 1-30,and that was just 30 minutes after the prat on
Radio four was babbling on about the max will only reach 15 or 16C this
afternoon !
.
They really should get out more

RonB

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message

...



Temperature has dropped to 10.5C from about 1.30 pm and rainfall in range
4-12mm, especially to North and East of County.

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Similar here, only colder. The max was 10.8°C and most of
the afternoon it was 8.7° to 9°. I heard the forecast you referred to
and I applaud your self-restraint in your description of the
"forecaster." This really was rubbish. I know it's partly the BBC's
fault in not giving them enough time but even so their delivery (with
one or two exceptions) is disgraceful - pauses all in the wrong
places, odd use of the English language, jumping about all over the
place geographically and no real understanding of significant weather
except when it has been formalised as a weather warning. This
afternoon was exceptionally cold for May and could easily have been
mentioned but my guess is that the presenters (you can hardly call
them forecasters) are just not into their subject enough to realise
what was going on. How has this abysmal state of affairs come about?
(rhetorical question, really, don't all shout at once).

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

In article .com,
Tudor Hughes writes:
Similar here, only colder. The max was 10.8°C and most of
the afternoon it was 8.7° to 9°. I heard the forecast you referred to
and I applaud your self-restraint in your description of the
"forecaster." This really was rubbish. I know it's partly the BBC's
fault in not giving them enough time but even so their delivery (with
one or two exceptions) is disgraceful - pauses all in the wrong
places, odd use of the English language, jumping about all over the
place geographically and no real understanding of significant weather
except when it has been formalised as a weather warning. This
afternoon was exceptionally cold for May and could easily have been
mentioned but my guess is that the presenters (you can hardly call
them forecasters) are just not into their subject enough to realise
what was going on. How has this abysmal state of affairs come about?
(rhetorical question, really, don't all shout at once).

Is pert of the problem that meteorology is now apparently viewed by
academia as a branch of physics rather than of geography, and that
recently trained meteorologists don't get taught very much about weather
and climate?
--
John Hall

"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

In message , John Hall
writes
In article .com,
Tudor Hughes writes:
Similar here, only colder. The max was 10.8°C and most of
the afternoon it was 8.7° to 9°. I heard the forecast you referred to
and I applaud your self-restraint in your description of the
"forecaster." This really was rubbish. I know it's partly the BBC's
fault in not giving them enough time but even so their delivery (with
one or two exceptions) is disgraceful - pauses all in the wrong
places, odd use of the English language, jumping about all over the
place geographically and no real understanding of significant weather
except when it has been formalised as a weather warning. This
afternoon was exceptionally cold for May and could easily have been
mentioned but my guess is that the presenters (you can hardly call
them forecasters) are just not into their subject enough to realise
what was going on. How has this abysmal state of affairs come about?
(rhetorical question, really, don't all shout at once).

Is pert of the problem that meteorology is now apparently viewed by
academia as a branch of physics rather than of geography, and that
recently trained meteorologists don't get taught very much about weather
and climate?

The science of meteorology is, and always was, largely physics and
mathematics. Physical geography does also come into it but if you if you
are making a simple choice between "physics" and "geography" then
meteorology most certainly falls into the "physics" box and it always
has done.

Norman
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Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles 85m a.s.l.
England