The London 2012 website has this to say about the UK's climate:

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The entire UK enjoys a temperate climate throughout the year, ideal for
competing and training.

Temperatures vary from season to season, but very rarely fall below -10C
or rise above 35C.

The capital's warmest month is July, when temperatures average between
13C and 22C.
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Anyone care to venture a more useful forecast for 27 July - 12 August
2012?

I'll say

The UK's weather has two modes in Summer:- a) unsettled and b) settled.

a) Unsettled
Rain falls most days, occasionally heavily, but rarely for more than 4
hours continuously.
Sunny periods lead to clouds and showers, some heavy.
Maximum temperatures are around 23 C in Central London, 21 C elsewhere.

b) Settled
Dry and sunny.
Maximum temperatures are around 30 C in Central London, 27 C elsewhere.

For the Olympic period, the probabilities a-
unsettled for the whole period 50%;
mostly unsettled but some settled periods 30%;
mostly settled but some unsettled periods 5%;and
settled for the whole period 15%.
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Woodlake

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Woodlake writes:
The London 2012 website has this to say about the UK's climate:

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The entire UK enjoys a temperate climate throughout the year, ideal for
competing and training.
snip

Shouldn't that be: "The entire UK complains about its temperate climate
throughout the year..."
--
John Hall
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history
that man can never learn anything from history."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

They should hold the 2012 Games somewhere near Haytor as its always a
stunner of a day, and the gardening is good too really ripe tomatoes this
year, there has been so much sun, apparently. Too hot for some as well, its
been in the mid teens! I just can't think of anywhere so apt to hold the
games.
Dave R

Dave

Normally, I can't be doing with your whinging but that raised a smile!

Dave R. wrote:
They should hold the 2012 Games somewhere near Haytor as its always a
stunner of a day, and the gardening is good too really ripe tomatoes
this year, there has been so much sun, apparently. Too hot for some as
well, its been in the mid teens! I just can't think of anywhere so apt
to hold the games.
Dave R

Dave R. wrote:
They should hold the 2012 Games somewhere near Haytor as its always a
stunner of a day, and the gardening is good too really ripe tomatoes
this year, there has been so much sun, apparently. Too hot for some as
well, its been in the mid teens! I just can't think of anywhere so apt
to hold the games.
Dave R


Could we have wood chopping as an Olympic sport, then?

--
Howard Neil