There will be at least 25 million people in England very disappointed
with the weather in the first week of the school holidays. Hopefully
many of them will have gone to the West Country for their holidays.
(Yes, I know it's glorious there and in Wales!).
It would appear that the ex(eter)centric Countryfile forecast has been
poor for the second week running. I rewatched it just to make sure and
the headline was a much improved, warmer week, including here. Bear in
mind I am talking about the Anglia region in general. Last week was in
fact far better, lots of warm sunny spells, no wind, yes a couple of
heavy showers but a lot brighter. This week we have returned to the
Jan/Feb gloom with the plague of the N.Sea cloud. To be fair they did
mention early morning mist and cloud at times but this was expected to
readily burn away. Temps were generally in the mid 20's for most of the
week. Didn't even make 20C here yesterday and it is currently only 16C
here at 11.00 a.m.
It would appear that cloud amounts in High Pressure, based on some of
the winter forecasts as well, are the most difficult feature to predict
although at the moment it does look blindingly obvious on the sat pics.
Luckily I warned "nutter" of this last week. "Some cloud around at times
I would think with embedded and decaying fronts."
Still, time to improve with a forecast of sunshine and 26C for here
tomorrow. We will see.
Dave, S.Essex.

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
There will be at least 25 million people in England very disappointed with
the weather in the first week of the school holidays. Hopefully many of
them will have gone to the West Country for their holidays. (Yes, I know
it's glorious there and in Wales!).
It would appear that the ex(eter)centric Countryfile forecast has been
poor for the second week running. I rewatched it just to make sure and the
headline was a much improved, warmer week, including here. Bear in mind I
am talking about the Anglia region in general. Last week was in fact far
better, lots of warm sunny spells, no wind, yes a couple of heavy showers
but a lot brighter. This week we have returned to the Jan/Feb gloom with
the plague of the N.Sea cloud. To be fair they did mention early morning
mist and cloud at times but this was expected to readily burn away. Temps
were generally in the mid 20's for most of the week. Didn't even make 20C
here yesterday and it is currently only 16C here at 11.00 a.m.
It would appear that cloud amounts in High Pressure, based on some of the
winter forecasts as well, are the most difficult feature to predict
although at the moment it does look blindingly obvious on the sat pics.
Luckily I warned "nutter" of this last week. "Some cloud around at times I
would think with embedded and decaying fronts."
Still, time to improve with a forecast of sunshine and 26C for here
tomorrow. We will see.
Dave, S.Essex.

Disappointing is certainly the best description I've heard compared to any
of the main stream forecasts.
After 2 Nil sunshine days quite widely over East Anglia the repeated
description seems to be to describe it as Rather Cloudy.

Last nights BBC local forecast was a bit more dramatic calling it very
cloudy for today but still had a caption behind the lady saying Rather
Cloudy !

More (and worse) to come?
Todays BBC Web forecast for my Post Code says White Cloud whilst tomorrow
actaually has Grey Cloud.,

I think there is always a tendancy to play down poor weather in this region
for fear of upsetting the coastal resorts, who could possibly now make a
play on the welcome cloudiness in the area to stop those nasty suns rays
frizzling all the skins of holidaymaking children now released into the
fresh air.

NSS Mid Suffolk

On Jul 27, 11:17*am, Dave Cornwell wrote:
There will be at least 25 million people in England very disappointed
with the weather in the first week of the school holidays. Hopefully
many of them will have gone to the West Country for their holidays.
(Yes, I know it's glorious there and in Wales!).
It would appear that the ex(eter)centric Countryfile forecast has been
poor for the second week running. I rewatched it just to make sure and
the headline was a much improved, warmer week, including here. Bear in
mind I am talking about the Anglia region in general. Last week was in
fact far better, lots of warm sunny spells, no wind, yes a couple of
heavy showers but a lot brighter. This week we have returned to the
Jan/Feb gloom with the plague of the N.Sea cloud. To be fair they did
mention early morning mist and cloud at times but this was expected to
readily burn away. Temps were generally in the mid 20's for most of the
week. Didn't even make 20C here yesterday and it is currently only 16C
here at 11.00 a.m.
It would appear that cloud amounts in High Pressure, based on some of
the winter forecasts as well, are the most difficult feature to predict
although at the moment it does look blindingly obvious on the sat pics.
Luckily I warned "nutter" of this last week. "Some cloud around at times
I would think with embedded and decaying fronts."
Still, time to improve with a forecast of sunshine and 26C for here
tomorrow. We will see.
Dave, S.Essex.

Not here Dave. There was an appalling spell from 17th - 20th, when it
was exceptionally cool as well as miserable, dull & basically sun
free. But... the last 7 days (including today) have seen sunny
afternoons along the south coast of Cornwall. (Spoilt on the north
coast by patchy sea fog 25th/26th). The 1st time this summer there's
been 7 consecutive sunny afternoons in Penzance. Our weather's always
out of step with yours.

It's getting so predictable there's no need to grab the board as soon
as the sun comes out. Certainly no need now as there's little surf.
Current view across Mount's Bay http://www.mounthaven.co.uk/webcam.htm
and the sun baked Minack http://www.minack.com/webcams.htm

July was looking to be notably cool, but the recent weather is causing
some changes to that. Also, some very high UV levels recently,
currently 8 on Scilly, as it was yesterday, despite some sea mist.

Graham
Penzance

Graham Easterling wrote:
On Jul 27, 11:17 am, Dave Cornwell wrote:
There will be at least 25 million people in England very disappointed
with the weather in the first week of the school holidays. Hopefully
many of them will have gone to the West Country for their holidays.
(Yes, I know it's glorious there and in Wales!).
It would appear that the ex(eter)centric Countryfile forecast has been
poor for the second week running. I rewatched it just to make sure and
the headline was a much improved, warmer week, including here. Bear in
mind I am talking about the Anglia region in general. Last week was in
fact far better, lots of warm sunny spells, no wind, yes a couple of
heavy showers but a lot brighter. This week we have returned to the
Jan/Feb gloom with the plague of the N.Sea cloud. To be fair they did
mention early morning mist and cloud at times but this was expected to
readily burn away. Temps were generally in the mid 20's for most of the
week. Didn't even make 20C here yesterday and it is currently only 16C
here at 11.00 a.m.
It would appear that cloud amounts in High Pressure, based on some of
the winter forecasts as well, are the most difficult feature to predict
although at the moment it does look blindingly obvious on the sat pics.
Luckily I warned "nutter" of this last week. "Some cloud around at times
I would think with embedded and decaying fronts."
Still, time to improve with a forecast of sunshine and 26C for here
tomorrow. We will see.
Dave, S.Essex.

Not here Dave. There was an appalling spell from 17th - 20th, when it
was exceptionally cool as well as miserable, dull & basically sun
free. But... the last 7 days (including today) have seen sunny
afternoons along the south coast of Cornwall. (Spoilt on the north
coast by patchy sea fog 25th/26th). The 1st time this summer there's
been 7 consecutive sunny afternoons in Penzance. Our weather's always
out of step with yours.

It's getting so predictable there's no need to grab the board as soon
as the sun comes out. Certainly no need now as there's little surf.
Current view across Mount's Bay http://www.mounthaven.co.uk/webcam.htm
and the sun baked Minack http://www.minack.com/webcams.htm

July was looking to be notably cool, but the recent weather is causing
some changes to that. Also, some very high UV levels recently,
currently 8 on Scilly, as it was yesterday, despite some sea mist.

Graham
Penzance

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"Hopefully many of them will have gone to the West Country for their
holidays.
(Yes, I know it's glorious there and in Wales!)."

;-) ;-)

On Jul 27, 11:17*am, Dave Cornwell wrote:

snip

Hopefully many of them will have gone to the West Country for their
holidays (Yes, I know it's glorious there and in Wales!).

I rather wish they'd all stay at home and leave to us immigrants! it
has been glorious though down here though this week, you are right
Dave and today is no different. A little medium cloud, but long spells
of sunshine again and 21/22C.

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"Hopefully many of them will have gone to the West Country for their
holidays.
* (Yes, I know it's glorious there and in Wales!)."


Sorry Dave, I skimmed through your post rather quickly - Didn't mean
to rub it in!

Graham

Graham Easterling wrote:
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"Hopefully many of them will have gone to the West Country for their
holidays.
(Yes, I know it's glorious there and in Wales!)."


Sorry Dave, I skimmed through your post rather quickly - Didn't mean
to rub it in!

Graham
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It's ok, we're not bitter, in fact not even lager in the weather we've got!

On Jul 27, 11:17*am, Dave Cornwell wrote:

There will be at least 25 million people in England very disappointed
with the weather in the first week of the school holidays. Hopefully
many of them will have gone to the West Country for their holidays.
(Yes, I know it's glorious there and in Wales!).

Concerning more civilised climes:
Does the weather seem to run in counterpoint to spells for ver
sarfeas'?