Just heard Penny Tranter referring to The Chilterns as 'The Northern part of
Southern England' on the BBC24 forecast. This is just rubbish! Is this the
best she can do? How can anyone take a forecast seriously when presenters
are unable to describe a forecast area better than this?

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Well all the PROPER forecasters are on their Christmas break.
The trainees have to hold the fort.

I thought there was a distinct lack of exaggeration in the forecasts of late
anyway.

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Steve.


"Dave O'Hara" wrote in message
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Just heard Penny Tranter referring to The Chilterns as 'The Northern part
of
Southern England' on the BBC24 forecast. This is just rubbish! Is this the
best she can do? How can anyone take a forecast seriously when presenters
are unable to describe a forecast area better than this?

--
Dave in Ferryhill, Co. Durham, UK. For webcam, look to
http://www.napier.eclipse.co.uk/weather/sample.htm





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On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:43:57 -0000, "FEo2 Welder"
wrote:

Well all the PROPER forecasters are on their Christmas break.
The trainees have to hold the fort.

Does that include 'Madame Windchill' herself, Helen Young?

I thought there was a distinct lack of exaggeration in the forecasts of late
anyway.

Good job too.


Phil

"Dave O'Hara" wrote in message
...
Just heard Penny Tranter referring to The Chilterns as 'The Northern part
of
Southern England' on the BBC24 forecast. This is just rubbish! Is this the
best she can do? How can anyone take a forecast seriously when presenters
are unable to describe a forecast area better than this?

--
Dave in Ferryhill, Co. Durham, UK. For webcam, look to
http://www.napier.eclipse.co.uk/weather/sample.htm




It is difficult though, I live in Bedfordshire, we seem to be in 4 different
regions or none at all. To some we are S Midlands, E Anglia (even W Anglia),
SE England and now N S England

You have my utmost sympathy :-)

Sometimes we are referred to as SE Scotland, the real NE of England as we
all know is the area North of The Wash and South of the Tees ;-(

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http://www.napier.eclipse.co.uk/weather/sample.htm


"Joe" wrote in message
...

"Dave O'Hara" wrote in message
...
Just heard Penny Tranter referring to The Chilterns as 'The Northern
part
of
Southern England' on the BBC24 forecast. This is just rubbish! Is this
the
best she can do? How can anyone take a forecast seriously when
presenters
are unable to describe a forecast area better than this?

--
Dave in Ferryhill, Co. Durham, UK. For webcam, look to
http://www.napier.eclipse.co.uk/weather/sample.htm




It is difficult though, I live in Bedfordshire, we seem to be in 4
different
regions or none at all. To some we are S Midlands, E Anglia (even W
Anglia),
SE England and now N S England

"Dave O'Hara" wrote in message
...
Just heard Penny Tranter referring to The Chilterns as 'The Northern part
of
Southern England' on the BBC24 forecast. This is just rubbish!
Dave in Ferryhill, Co. Durham, UK. For webcam, look to

Sounds like a reasonable description to me, especially as she added the
Chilterns.
Here in the middle of the central belt of Scotland we often get termed, "the
north", "the south west of Scotland", "central Scotland", "southern
Scotland" and every once in a while they get accurate with "the M8 corridor"
or "the forth/Clyde valley". Daren't mention Lanarkshire as it might be
confused with Lancashire.
If Penny had said the Chilterns were the southern part of Northern
England -- I think grumbles would be more justified.
Co. Durham, I imagine, suffers from the same geographical broadbrush on
these bulletins?
The only counties I hear mentioned with any regularity on BBC (TV) weather
broadcasts are Kent and the Highlands.
Alex.

Just heard Penny Tranter referring to The Chilterns as 'The Northern part of
Southern England' on the BBC24 forecast. This is just rubbish! Is this the
best she can do? How can anyone take a forecast seriously when presenters
are unable to describe a forecast area better than this?


A good point indeed, but Penny Tranter is gormless. Who else can
confuse Teignmouth with Tynemouth pronunciation-wise?

Tudor Hughes, near the B269 corridor.

"Alex Stephens Jnr" wrote in
message ...

Co. Durham, I imagine, suffers from the same geographical broadbrush
on
these bulletins?

Alex,

County Durham doesn't exist as far as MO forecasts go. Many years ago,
Jack Scott - who came from Ferryhill, I think - used to give us a
mention in the national forecast.

When I first started sending reports to Bracknell from Low Etherley
(County Durham), the MO put it in Northumberland in the Monthly Weather
Report. Very reassuring for the forecasts!


The only counties I hear mentioned with any regularity on BBC (TV)
weather
broadcasts are Kent and the Highlands.

and Yorkshire, surely!

ATB,

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830ft
http://mysite.freeserve.com/copley
(MO climat. site updated before 10Z and 19Z daily)
kencookATcopleydurham.freeserve.co.uk


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Tudor Hughes, near the B269 corridor.

LOL!

Alex, not a million miles from the snow.

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TudorHgh writes:
A good point indeed, but Penny Tranter is gormless. Who else can
confuse Teignmouth with Tynemouth pronunciation-wise?

Well, me for one. I'd always assumed that they were pronounced the same.
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