OK, Dave, you win this one.  This is as nasty a day I've ever 
experienced in August, including a stint in Stornoway.  It's just 16.4 
in Blackheath at the moment, and about 2mm of steady light but 
penetrating drizzle (measured since yesterday). I don't suppose Thursday 
will be any better, another wet Glyndebourne picnic cowering under the 
terrace.  Gloom.  Doom. Break out the grog.


-- 
Kate B

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want to reply personally

On 2008-08-05, Kate Brown  wrote:
> OK, Dave, you win this one.  This is as nasty a day I've ever 
> experienced in August, including a stint in Stornoway.  It's just 16.4 
> in Blackheath at the moment, and about 2mm of steady light but 
> penetrating drizzle (measured since yesterday). I don't suppose Thursday 
> will be any better, another wet Glyndebourne picnic cowering under the 
> terrace.  Gloom.  Doom. Break out the grog.

Can I just give you extra marks for using a good Scottish word in the title?

Jim
-- 
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 I feel like I'm explaining Van Halen to a horse." Merlin Mann

Kate Brown wrote:

> OK, Dave, you win this one.  This is as nasty a day I've ever
> experienced in August, including a stint in Stornoway.  

You have led a sheltered life, Kate :-)


-- 
Norman Lynagh
Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
85m a.s.l.
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Kate Brown wrote:
> OK, Dave, you win this one.  This is as nasty a day I've ever
> experienced in August, including a stint in Stornoway.  It's just 16.4
> in Blackheath at the moment, and about 2mm of steady light but
> penetrating drizzle (measured since yesterday). I don't suppose Thursday
> will be any better, another wet Glyndebourne picnic cowering under the
> terrace.  Gloom.  Doom. Break out the grog.
>
>
> --
> Kate B

I know it's overcast but it's supposedly a warm sector too - those
temperatures are shockingly low for August in the southeast! Whatever
happened to the 25C overcast warm sectors common in the 90s?

Nick

On Aug 5, 12:45 pm, Jim  wrote:
>
> Can I just give you extra marks for using a good Scottish word in the title?

And another couple for spelling it, but minus one for not adding the
other Scottish word "Drear" to complete the phrase.  As in:  "Dreich
an drear the nicht, wild an weet the storm - ye're the bonny sicht
keeps me fine an warm. Writer's Block Noo here A am, set doon tae
write, Bit whit aboot evades me quite".

Or to over-oat the porridge, how about: Dreich, dour and drear - which
makes me thoroughly miserable even reading the words:  "An days growes
dreich an dour--to hear a cheery-like strathspey, ... It's a dream
that hauds hertenin, when a'thing is drear",

There we go ... a bit of balance back into the ng: Scottish poetry
quoted by a Geordie [by adoption], who was born in Manchester, lodged
for a while in W. Yorks, working in The Smoke and living in Essex.

A damp squib here in central London - more a case of two spits and a
spot, compared the the "rumbles of thunder" we were promised in some
forecasts this morning.


-  Tom
London W1

"Kate Brown"  wrote in message 
news:kczbVfFmnDmIFw+$@nospam.demon.co.uk...
> OK, Dave, you win this one.  This is as nasty a day I've ever experienced 
> in August, including a stint in Stornoway.  It's just 16.4 in Blackheath 
> at the moment, and about 2mm of steady light but penetrating drizzle 
> (measured since yesterday). I don't suppose Thursday will be any better, 
> another wet Glyndebourne picnic cowering under the terrace.  Gloom.  Doom. 
> Break out the grog.
>
>
> -- 
> Kate B
>
> PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne dot 
> org dot uk if you
> want to reply personally
------------------------
Much better just a few miles to your East. Some drizzly light rain amounting 
to 1mm and now some brighter spells and temp up to 18.5C. Had much worse !

Dave, S.Essex.

On Aug 5, 12:59 pm, nick150...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Kate Brown wrote:
> > OK, Dave, you win this one.  This is as nasty a day I've ever
> > experienced in August, including a stint in Stornoway.  It's just 16.4
> > in Blackheath at the moment, and about 2mm of steady light but
> > penetrating drizzle (measured since yesterday). I don't suppose Thursday
> > will be any better, another wet Glyndebourne picnic cowering under the
> > terrace.  Gloom.  Doom. Break out the grog.
>
> > --
> > Kate B
>
> I know it's overcast but it's supposedly a warm sector too - those
> temperatures are shockingly low for August in the southeast! Whatever
> happened to the 25C overcast warm sectors common in the 90s?
>
> Nick

It's on its way for the SE tomorrow, Nick!

Paul

On Aug 5, 12:59 pm, nick150...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Kate Brown wrote:
> > OK, Dave, you win this one.  This is as nasty a day I've ever
> > experienced in August, including a stint in Stornoway.  It's just 16.4
> > in Blackheath at the moment, and about 2mm of steady light but
> > penetrating drizzle (measured since yesterday). I don't suppose Thursday
> > will be any better, another wet Glyndebourne picnic cowering under the
> > terrace.  Gloom.  Doom. Break out the grog.
>
> > --
> > Kate B
>
> I know it's overcast but it's supposedly a warm sector too - those
> temperatures are shockingly low for August in the southeast! Whatever
> happened to the 25C overcast warm sectors common in the 90s?
>
> Nick

The 850WBPTs and 1000-850hPa thicknesses are actually very respectable
for a warm sector, even at this time of the year. Tomorrow central and
eastern parts of England will see a warm afternoon with temperatures
very much in the ball park you quote (potentially higher in favoured
spots that see best of brightness/sunshine).

Steve.
www.rockbeareweather.co.uk