In message , Tom Allen
writes
Anne Burgess wrote:

The Met Office site now has warnings for South-West Scotland,
South-East Scotland, and various other areas including 'Eastern
Counties', whatever that means. Today's forecast on the same site for
North-East Scotland is mainly dry and bright, with increasing risk of
rain later tonight, so I have to assume that 'Eastern Counties' is
misleading and doesn't in fact include all eastern counties in
Britain.

The areas are defined on the MetO website at
http://www.meto.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/uk.html
'Eastern Counties' is/are well to the south of Scotland.


I'm not sure of the logic but I see that Oxford, Witney and Abingdon are
in SE England but Eastbourne, Hastings and Rye are not.

Norman.
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Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles
England

I have to assume that 'Eastern Counties' is
misleading and doesn't in fact include all eastern counties in
Britain.

The areas are defined on the MetO website at
http://www.meto.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/uk.html
'Eastern Counties' is/are well to the south of Scotland.
Tom

Thanks Tom.

Anne

I'm off to find my garden chair, a sun hat and a good book ....
Anne

Yesterday saw prolonged sunshine, 23.9 degrees, light winds in Penzance, but
you probably wouldn't have thought so from the way the weather was
summarised.
We had our rain Sunday morning.
Graham

I changed my mind, clarted myself with factor 25 and went down to the Lein
Nature Reserve for a walk in the sunshine. The car thermometer (which I am not
sure that I trust) was reading 25ºC. It was very pleasant with the cooling
effect of the breeze; there were white horses on the sea, so it must have been
about Force 4.

Amazingly, there were clouds of butterflies around - mostly Scotch Argus, but
also Speckled Wood, Meadow Brown and Common Blue. I wonder that they can manage
to fly at all in such windy conditions.

Still no sign of rain - not a cloud in sight.

Anne

I'd agree Dave.
I was thinking about it as I went to work this morning in Dulwich. The skies
were gloomy, a surreal light, and it was pelting it down but in a strange
way it all looked rather beautiful-a sort of eerie atmosphere.
After whinging criticism by twerps like me the met were pretty much
justified in those "severe weather" warnings.





"Dave.C" wrote in message
. uk...
Having been known to occasionally criticise the accuracy of forecasts
;-( I
would say that this current situation has been pretty well forecast. I
think several of us were getting very sceptical and this was probably due
to
the rainfall being about 18 hours later than expected. Mind you, I suppose
a
hell of a difference if you'd cancelled an outdoor event on the strength
of
it.

Dave

Graham Easterling wrote in message ...
Anne

Yesterday saw prolonged sunshine, 23.9 degrees, light winds in Penzance, but
you probably wouldn't have thought so from the way the weather was
summarised.

We had our rain Sunday morning.


One thing I've noticed since living in Devon is how rubbish the information on
radio is. Quite often max. temps are given for cities such as Cardiff, London,
Manchester etc but no mention of temperatures in Devon. Also we tend to get
lumped into "southern England" when our weather is often very different.

Will.
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