[fatbelly]

On Tuesday of this week the BBC Weather website said that today would be a lovely day where I live with sunshine and a top temperature of 19c.
Perfect I thought to spend the day on my Lottie, so I booked a days leave at work.

It has not stopped raining since I got up this morning and it is currently bucketing it down Monsoon style. I did briefly go down at 11am hoping things would improve but all I did was stand in my shed for thirty minutes as the deluge rapped on the shed roof.

What a dreadful year we have had.

[agapanthus]

Very true fatbelly...but ther's always next year and it's gotta be better than this!!!!

[Sadgit]

you booked a holiday because the BBC weather said it would be sunny..... Are you mad??

[DD.]

Very true fatbelly...but ther's always next year and it's gotta be better than this!!!!

I said that last year!

[Babycat]

I am so sorry but .........    

Us here in East Anglia (aka East Angular according to Jade Goody who, even more disturbingly, now lives here but that is off topic) have gotten used to completely disregarding anything suggested by the demented chicks on Anglia Tonight and Look East.

Not a great year and sorry about your day off - at least the soil will be workable now, mine is drier than the weeds I grow there  

x Gina

[Annie]

The BBC have been worse than usless this year,it is because of their long term forecast that I planted so many toms outside :cry: However i am glad at last that decent rain hit us at 6.30pm as we are dry as a chip here and I was even contemplating watering the leeks!I am also looking through the catalogues and marking everything that has some mildew resistance...what a year,and it ain`t over yet! :roll:

[mushroom]

I use metoffice http://www.metoffice.gov.uk

saying that, I still find their forecasts need to be taken with a pinch of salt, seeming to error on the side of extreme rather than actuality in my recent experience - eg a few weeks ago rain was forecast, heavy rain at that, over 3 days, and only a shower came. So I'll use it for frost but if rain is fcast i'll take me coat  

[Jeanieblue]

Well, I don't take much notice of the weather reports any more - the worse the forecast, the more blooming cheerful the weather person. They ought to spend less time indoors sitting at their computers, and more time outside sticking wet fingers in the air and looking at the sky !!!!!  My grandad - who was born pre BBC - used to believe 'red sky at night, shepherd's delight, red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning'.  And I bet other folk on the forum can come up with other folk lore regarding the weather.

[WG.]

And I bet other folk on the forum can come up with other folk lore regarding the weather.

This stone comes in handy ...

[flatcap]

jeanieblue ,
                                             we still use red sky saying. as for weather
forecasts ,i wait til i get up in the morning and look out the  window thats the best forecast

[Annie]

Trouble with this summer was that it was gray rainy sky at night and gray rainey sky in the morning and a pretty soggy shepherd.

[Fat Hen]

Ahh!  You obviously don't understand the Beeb's code.  You have to think WWII & confusing the Germans.  If they say it's going to be sunny, then this in actual fact means it'll rain cats & dogs.

Warm - means expect mini ice age conditions.

Wet & windy - a balmy summers eve (ok that's stretching it a bit).

etc etc.  The Beeb never really stopped this misinformation malarky you see.  Just in case.

[Jeanieblue]

I'm getting a stone like Whiskygolf's. Will set up as a shrine in the middle of the lottie and defer to it every morning  'Oh Hail Stone .....'   LOLOLOLO