Hmmmm .... the Met Office says "... UK Outlook for Friday 25 Aug 2017 to Friday 8 Sep 2017:
Through the latter part of August and into early September, we are most likely to see a northwest/southeast split in the weather, although confidence in this is low. This will bring changeable conditions across the northwest, with spells of rain and strong winds at times, whilst the south and east will be drier and settled more often. As a result, temperatures may often be warmer in the south with a low chance of temporary warm and thundery conditions for some southeastern areas. In contrast, temperatures will remain close to normal or perhaps a little below across the north....."
What about the South-west???????? That's where we'll be ...........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Never mind bloody autumn, can we have summer first, please?
Sometimes I marvel at our amazing ingenuity. Been listening to the story on xeno-transplantation and how we are now able to snip individual genes from a pigs DNA to produce pigs that are virus free, in order to produce animals to provide organs for transplant.
Makes me wonder, why is it, that on the one hand we are finding more and more ways to improve our lives and then on the other we want to kill anyone who has a different philosophy to our own.
Another cup of coffee and then take some more cuttings.
I really miss skiing as well.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
"What about the South-west???????? That's where we'll be ........... "
That's what we think every time they announce more £billions to be spent in London. £800,000,000 on Waterloo station. Our nearest railway station is an hour's drive away.
Couldn't afford to get a train down to you even if there was one Hosta ... have you seen the price of tickets???
At least you have a motorway pointing vaguely towards you ... we have one of the largest port complexes in Europe and not one motorway in East Anglia ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Many years ago the local BBC weatherman did a short piece on why the national forecast is hardly ever right for the southwest peninsula. They have got better at it, but basically they generally don't know what it's going to be until it gets here because the Atlantic affects us from almost every direction rather than only the west, as for most of the UK. The computer models find a large ocean particularly hard to model reliably so the 'runs' of model that they use to predict weather tend to coincide reasonably well for places like Birmingham and London with land all around and less well for places like Glasgow and Norwich, with sea to one side. But down here the variation between runs can be very wide even only 24 hours ahead. A local (as he was) who is accustomed to the way our weather works (he was an active sailor) can make a fair assessment but there is more art and less science to it than for most of the country.
If you watch the national forecast, they very often stand in front of Cornwall. And the poor Scilly Isles rarely get a mention at all.
So if you want to know what the weather is going to be doing down here in 2 or 3 weeks, no point asking the Met Office. Better off consulting your bunions
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
As a full time gardener for over 25 years, and now as a full time , home gardener. I'm always checking the weather. I find they're getting better all the time.
Raisingirl, you're so right about the weather here but , by and large, they're pretty close. Maybe the rain won't stop in the morning , but by lunchtime, maybe it'll arrive mid afternoon and not at night,
Showers and thunderstorms are always hit and miss affairs.
Raisingirl ... we book a week of good weather in Cornwall when we book our holiday home (there's a box you can tick but you have to know where it is) .... we've been doing it for years and years .......... we've never had a bad week yet ........ usually what's happening on the north coast is different to what's happening on the south, and what's happening inland is different again ... so we can just seek out the weather that suits ....
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Hmmmm .... the Met Office says "... UK Outlook for Friday 25 Aug 2017 to Friday 8 Sep 2017:
Through the latter part of August and into early September, we are most likely to see a northwest/southeast split in the weather, although confidence in this is low. This will bring changeable conditions across the northwest, with spells of rain and strong winds at times, whilst the south and east will be drier and settled more often. As a result, temperatures may often be warmer in the south with a low chance of temporary warm and thundery conditions for some southeastern areas. In contrast, temperatures will remain close to normal or perhaps a little below across the north....."
What about the South-west???????? That's where we'll be ...........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi all.
Never mind bloody autumn, can we have summer first, please?
Sometimes I marvel at our amazing ingenuity. Been listening to the story on xeno-transplantation and how we are now able to snip individual genes from a pigs DNA to produce pigs that are virus free, in order to produce animals to provide organs for transplant.
Makes me wonder, why is it, that on the one hand we are finding more and more ways to improve our lives and then on the other we want to kill anyone who has a different philosophy to our own.
Another cup of coffee and then take some more cuttings.
I really miss skiing as well.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Dove says:
"What about the South-west???????? That's where we'll be ...........
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That's what we think every time they announce more £billions to be spent in London. £800,000,000 on Waterloo station. Our nearest railway station is an hour's drive away.
We should start an "knackered old git" ski club where we can hang out in a wooden shed and talk about how good we were!
The older I get, the better I was!
Couldn't afford to get a train down to you even if there was one Hosta ... have you seen the price of tickets???
At least you have a motorway pointing vaguely towards you ... we have one of the largest port complexes in Europe and not one motorway in East Anglia ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Many years ago the local BBC weatherman did a short piece on why the national forecast is hardly ever right for the southwest peninsula. They have got better at it, but basically they generally don't know what it's going to be until it gets here because the Atlantic affects us from almost every direction rather than only the west, as for most of the UK. The computer models find a large ocean particularly hard to model reliably so the 'runs' of model that they use to predict weather tend to coincide reasonably well for places like Birmingham and London with land all around and less well for places like Glasgow and Norwich, with sea to one side. But down here the variation between runs can be very wide even only 24 hours ahead. A local (as he was) who is accustomed to the way our weather works (he was an active sailor) can make a fair assessment but there is more art and less science to it than for most of the country.
If you watch the national forecast, they very often stand in front of Cornwall. And the poor Scilly Isles rarely get a mention at all.
So if you want to know what the weather is going to be doing down here in 2 or 3 weeks, no point asking the Met Office. Better off consulting your bunions
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Sadly PP, I seem to get better at everything these days, well at least a man can dream.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I feel I need to stick up for the weathermen.
As a full time gardener for over 25 years, and now as a full time , home gardener. I'm always checking the weather. I find they're getting better all the time.
Raisingirl, you're so right about the weather here but , by and large, they're pretty close. Maybe the rain won't stop in the morning , but by lunchtime, maybe it'll arrive mid afternoon and not at night,
Showers and thunderstorms are always hit and miss affairs.
In general, I think they do a pretty good job .
Raisingirl ... we book a week of good weather in Cornwall when we book our holiday home (there's a box you can tick but you have to know where it is)
.... we've been doing it for years and years .......... we've never had a bad week yet 
........ usually what's happening on the north coast is different to what's happening on the south, and what's happening inland is different again ... so we can just seek out the weather that suits .... 
Last edited: 11 August 2017 09:32:52
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think we've only had about 3 or 4 totally rain free days in about 4 , or even 5 weeks.