On 04/10/13 06:38, Dawlish wrote:
On Thursday, October 3, 2013 9:58:03 PM UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote:
John Hall wrote:

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John Hall wrote:



Referring to the expected dry interval between rain this afternoon and more

rain tonight, the young female weather presenter on the regional BBC South

news programme (I think her name might have been Holly Green) called it a

"suckers' gap". (In placing the apostrophe I've assumed that there would

be more than one sucker.)

That's a phrase often used by marine weather forecasters briefing North Sea

operators when discussing a transient ridge of high pressure bringing a very

short interval of relatively light winds that's not long enough to carry out

many weather sensitive operations.





I think Will introduced many of us to the phrase when using it on this

newsgroup.

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Yes, back in the fun days! We had a few laughs about the length of that

one as I recall.

Dave

Did specsavers do a 2-for-one deal on those rose-coloured spectacles of yours Dave? *))

I do remember Will's chagrin at his "sucker's gap" lasting from January to the end of September! That cold just would not come back, no matter how hard it was wished for, would it?

That was exactly Dave's point, hence "We had a few laughs about the
length of that".