@fishpaste 342591 wrote:
they said every day this summer will be over 30 degrees. bollocks lol. it might get better though lets be optimistic about these thing eh?
the same people saying this are now talking up the bad weather… there are lots of journos what know fuck all about meterology, and also private “weather forecasters” with axes to grind trying to prove met office wrong..
the weather isn’t actually that bad for a summer in Great Britain.
Peoples expectations have been made unrealistic by a few “good” summers at the start of the 2000s. It might rain for a few hours and temperatures have been lower (albeit still in the early 20s most of the time here ) but it is not as bad as people think.
Bear in mind I don’t own a car and cycle every day often long distances, and if it really was crap I’d be the first to curse the weather…
Also nearly all media organisations are increasingly slack with updating their weather broadcasts from the met office – you get a new observation and forecast update every hour from Meto (check the website) but lots of media places run the same forecast video/audio file and only update every 4 hours (so 6 broadcasts per day).
This gives a wrong (and often worse) perception of the actual weather…
One thing I have noticed consistently is that weather is better midweek and deteriorates at the weekend. I am unfortunately yet to find any rational scientific reason for this though – even asked Binge who has a degree in environmental science and studied things like this at Uni and he couldn’t find an answer…..
