.... could be a tricky BH weekend to start the service!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8695103.stm

[Forecast here]

http://www.bournemouthweather.co.uk/

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
...
... could be a tricky BH weekend to start the service!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8695103.stm

[Forecast here]

http://www.bournemouthweather.co.uk/

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023


Hmm, I can just imagine the conversation in the council office on delivery
of the next day's forecast.

Speaker 1: "Oh dear, they're forecasting thunder storms tomorrow afternoon."
Speaker 2: "Well, that all right. Put it down as 'warm and bright' ".
Speaker 1: "That's a bit iffy, surely."
Speaker 2: "Not really. Thunder storms normally occur in warm weather, and
it'll certainly be bright during the flashes."

I lived in Bournemouth once, and know for a fact that the town council are
completely tourism orientated, without a care for the locals who pay the
rates.

jim, Northampton

On 20/05/2010 22:36, jbm wrote:

Speaker 1: "Oh dear, they're forecasting thunder storms tomorrow afternoon."
Speaker 2: "Well, that all right. Put it down as 'warm and bright' ".
Speaker 1: "That's a bit iffy, surely."
Speaker 2: "Not really. Thunder storms normally occur in warm weather, and
it'll certainly be bright during the flashes."

I lived in Bournemouth once, and know for a fact that the town council are
completely tourism orientated, without a care for the locals who pay the
rates.

I am amused that the bournemouthweather.co.uk website is forecasting a
maximum temperature today of 23.2C - seems rather precise!

And yes, the council do like wasting money - £3m was just piddled into
the sea for a surf reef that doesn't work :-)

Jonathan
Bournemouth

"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
. uk...
On 20/05/2010 22:36, jbm wrote:

Speaker 1: "Oh dear, they're forecasting thunder storms tomorrow
afternoon."
Speaker 2: "Well, that all right. Put it down as 'warm and bright' ".
Speaker 1: "That's a bit iffy, surely."
Speaker 2: "Not really. Thunder storms normally occur in warm weather,
and
it'll certainly be bright during the flashes."

I lived in Bournemouth once, and know for a fact that the town council
are
completely tourism orientated, without a care for the locals who pay the
rates.

I am amused that the bournemouthweather.co.uk website is forecasting a
maximum temperature today of 23.2C - seems rather precise!

It's another Metcheck type forecast that predits ridiculously precise
values that haven't a hope in hell of being accurate.

And I do wonder about the, how should I put it, 'agenda' of such
a forecast. Are they going to 'talk up' the weather of Bournemouth
and down-play the negatives?
They appear to have been brought in after a poor Met Office forecast
last year that predicted wet weather scared away the tourists when
it turned out fine. But I don't suppose they complained when forecasts
of fine weather were wrong and the tourists came and still spent their
money, albeit on more indoor activities.....
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

On 21 May, 10:58, Jonathan Stott wrote:
On 20/05/2010 22:36, jbm wrote:

Speaker 1: "Oh dear, they're forecasting thunder storms tomorrow afternoon."
Speaker 2: "Well, that all right. Put it down as 'warm and bright' ".
Speaker 1: "That's a bit iffy, surely."
Speaker 2: "Not really. Thunder storms normally occur in warm weather, and
it'll certainly be bright during the flashes."

I lived in Bournemouth once, and know for a fact that the town council are
completely tourism orientated, without a care for the locals who pay the
rates.

I am amused that the bournemouthweather.co.uk website is forecasting a
maximum temperature today of 23.2C - seems rather precise!

And yes, the council do like wasting money - £3m was just piddled into
the sea for a surf reef that doesn't work :-)

Jonathan
Bournemouth

Couldn't help laughing about that. Even if it worked, how often does
Bournemouth get a real swell.

A real Cornish reef break. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OYQahBCM-0

Graham
Penzance