Talk about anti-S.E bias! The 1.00 pm forecast is full of glorious happy
summer's day stuff. She even said much sunnier and pleasant in East
Anglia. The graphics shows lovely sunny skies over Essex.
Well it has been a diabolical morning and the cloud stretches as far as
I can see in every direction so it can't be that localised. And it's not
fair weather cloud - it is dense grey Cu and we have the lights on
indoors, temperature now down to 17.2C! Utter rubbish!
Dave, S.Essex

On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 1:24:11 PM UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Talk about anti-S.E bias! The 1.00 pm forecast is full of glorious happy
summer's day stuff. She even said much sunnier and pleasant in East
Anglia. The graphics shows lovely sunny skies over Essex.
Well it has been a diabolical morning and the cloud stretches as far as
I can see in every direction so it can't be that localised. And it's not
fair weather cloud - it is dense grey Cu and we have the lights on
indoors, temperature now down to 17.2C! Utter rubbish!
Dave, S.Essex

Maybe they should look at the satellite imagery, which currently shows the thick cloud over Essex http://www.sat24.com/en/gb.

Pleasantly sunny here again, as it was yesterday, http://www.sennen-cove.com/15aug15.htm Temperature still a good 3C below normal though.

Graham
Penzance

On 16/08/2015 13:54, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 1:24:11 PM UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Talk about anti-S.E bias! The 1.00 pm forecast is full of glorious happy
summer's day stuff. She even said much sunnier and pleasant in East
Anglia. The graphics shows lovely sunny skies over Essex.
Well it has been a diabolical morning and the cloud stretches as far as
I can see in every direction so it can't be that localised. And it's not
fair weather cloud - it is dense grey Cu and we have the lights on
indoors, temperature now down to 17.2C! Utter rubbish!
Dave, S.Essex

Maybe they should look at the satellite imagery, which currently shows the thick cloud over Essex http://www.sat24.com/en/gb.

Pleasantly sunny here again, as it was yesterday, http://www.sennen-cove.com/15aug15.htm Temperature still a good 3C below normal though.

Graham
Penzance

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Exactly - large parts of the S.E bear no resemblance to the 1pm
forecast. 16.9C at 2 pm in thick cloud is not a pleasant mid- August day
in anyone's book - not even Will's!
This is my panoramic view at the moment:-
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7vvfbwevwj...20%21.jpg?dl=0

Sorry Dave but in the Wanstead microclimate it's actually not bad - it is overcast but there's been a lot of brightness, 20.5C and it's very still - pleasant enough for lunch outside and a big improvement on Friday

On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 1:24:11 PM UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Talk about anti-S.E bias! The 1.00 pm forecast is full of glorious happy
summer's day stuff. She even said much sunnier and pleasant in East
Anglia. The graphics shows lovely sunny skies over Essex.
Well it has been a diabolical morning and the cloud stretches as far as
I can see in every direction so it can't be that localised. And it's not
fair weather cloud - it is dense grey Cu and we have the lights on
indoors, temperature now down to 17.2C! Utter rubbish!
Dave, S.Essex

That's not 'anti-SE bias' though, it's just a bad forecast!

Col

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
Talk about anti-S.E bias! The 1.00 pm forecast is full of glorious happy
summer's day stuff. She even said much sunnier and pleasant in East
Anglia. The graphics shows lovely sunny skies over Essex.
Well it has been a diabolical morning and the cloud stretches as far as I
can see in every direction so it can't be that localised. And it's not
fair weather cloud - it is dense grey Cu and we have the lights on
indoors, temperature now down to 17.2C! Utter rubbish!
Dave, S.Essex

17.2C - as warm as that. You're always grumbling yet you live in a very warm
place, even when it is cloudy. Max. +16C under cloudy skies all day here
apart from a bit of morning sun, rather nice actually as it was dry, but a
bit sticky on my 14 mile walk earlier!

Will
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Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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"Eskimo Will" wrote in message
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"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
Talk about anti-S.E bias! The 1.00 pm forecast is full of glorious happy
summer's day stuff. She even said much sunnier and pleasant in East
Anglia. The graphics shows lovely sunny skies over Essex.
Well it has been a diabolical morning and the cloud stretches as far as I
can see in every direction so it can't be that localised. And it's not
fair weather cloud - it is dense grey Cu and we have the lights on
indoors, temperature now down to 17.2C! Utter rubbish!
Dave, S.Essex

17.2C - as warm as that. You're always grumbling yet you live in a very
warm place, even when it is cloudy. Max. +16C under cloudy skies all day
here apart from a bit of morning sun, rather nice actually as it was dry,
but a bit sticky on my 14 mile walk earlier!


I forgot a smiley! So here's three :-) :-) :-)
Chin up Dave you'll be back to your usual 22C heat soon enough.

Will
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http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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On 16/08/2015 18:32, Eskimo Will wrote:

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
Talk about anti-S.E bias! The 1.00 pm forecast is full of glorious
happy summer's day stuff. She even said much sunnier and pleasant in
East Anglia. The graphics shows lovely sunny skies over Essex.
Well it has been a diabolical morning and the cloud stretches as far
as I can see in every direction so it can't be that localised. And
it's not fair weather cloud - it is dense grey Cu and we have the
lights on indoors, temperature now down to 17.2C! Utter rubbish!
Dave, S.Essex

17.2C - as warm as that. You're always grumbling yet you live in a very
warm place, even when it is cloudy. Max. +16C under cloudy skies all day
here apart from a bit of morning sun, rather nice actually as it was
dry, but a bit sticky on my 14 mile walk earlier!

Will
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Probably grumbling less than you are always chiming in with asides that
you think what most others consider not to be warm to be some kind of
heatwave? We get it that you only like cool weather.
The point you are missing is that I am not "grumbling" about the weather
but the presentation of a forecast that was so far wrong here that it
was a joke. Moreover the "now" forecast wasn't changed at 1pm.
From early morning there were zero hours sunshine and the temperature
at 2.00pm was 16.9C. This is not a pleasant warm sunny day in Essex in
mid August, because as you say I live in a warm part of the UK so will
naturally judge it by that. Look at those cloud pics in the link, a
whole day of that does not represent was portrayed.
That's all.
Dave

On 16/08/2015 17:47, wrote:
On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 1:24:11 PM UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Talk about anti-S.E bias! The 1.00 pm forecast is full of glorious happy
summer's day stuff. She even said much sunnier and pleasant in East
Anglia. The graphics shows lovely sunny skies over Essex.
Well it has been a diabolical morning and the cloud stretches as far as
I can see in every direction so it can't be that localised. And it's not
fair weather cloud - it is dense grey Cu and we have the lights on
indoors, temperature now down to 17.2C! Utter rubbish!
Dave, S.Essex

That's not 'anti-SE bias' though, it's just a bad forecast!

Col

I know, just a dig to prove they don't always just base it on what we've
got :-)
Dave

In message , Dave Cornwell
writes
The point you are missing is that I am not "grumbling" about the
weather but the presentation of a forecast that was so far wrong here
that it was a joke. Moreover the "now" forecast wasn't changed at 1pm.

Perhaps part of the problem is that (I surmise) the BBC on-duty weather
presenter doesn't have the authority to change the "official" forecast
even if he or she can look out of the window and see that it's wrong. (I
think the BBC presenters are still based in London, aren't they, or have
they been sent off to Salford along with most of the BBC?) I suspect
that the forecast can only be changed after consultation with the
on-duty chief forecaster, who is presumably based down in Exeter at Met
Office HQ. Doing that would (a) require a show of initiative from the
presenter and (b) would take time.

Of course it's also possible that the TV forecast broadcast at 1pm might
have been recorded a few hours earlier.
--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones