** WARNING ** Don't read this if you're fed up with me moaning about MetO forecasts - You have been warned

Despite the MetO having just downgraded today's forecast for Penzance to 15C & white cloud at 10am (isn't a forecast supposed to be for the future?) and the same at noon, it has so far (now 11:30) been a day oif unbroken warm sunshine. Currently 18.3C and rising. It's still forecast to be cloudy all day, aren't they able to use satellite imagery any more? http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_uk_vis.html . All this clouds so annoying http://www.minack.com/webcamsref.htm

Still, at least that's an improvement on yesterday's forecast. When I drove back from Sennen at 18:00 (just missed a large basking shark - in the sea, not crossing the road)in glorious sunshine to be told in the 'forecast?' for 16:00 that there would be a black cloud & 2 nasty raindrops.

Best of all, the MetO now provides beach forecasts, so details of the sea state etc. Not quite Magic Seaweed though, take a look at http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/w...)#?tab=fiveDay for Porthminster, St Ives. The beach faces due east, so I make a NW wind offshore, but apparently it's onshore. May I, as a geography graduate, a degree often held in low regard on USW, suggest that the person responsible for this is told that if you hold a map the right way up, the beaches facing to the right are facing east, and that a NW wind will come from the top left.


There, I feel better now

Graham
Penzance