SE England-centric weather forecasts!

[Stonehead]

When will the various broadcasters realise that not everyone lives in SE England? The weather forecasters are going on about the heat wave, temperatures over 30C and how people are going to die (wow, there's a surprise) as if it's some sort of UK-wide phenomenon.

In fact, up here in Aberdeenshire temperatures peaked at 19C today, with thunderstorms and heavy rain after a sunny morning. It's currently 15C and overcast.

A friend in Skipton tells me its 25C and overcast there, while down in Fife it's 20C and raining. So, hardly heatwave conditions down as far as the bottom of Yorkshire!

I emailed the BBC about this a while ago and they replied saying the majority of the population lives in SE England. Erm, but isn't it the "British" Broadcasting Corporation and not the London Broadcasting Corporation.

Mutter, mutter!

[Millie]

I have no idea how hot its been here today, but yesterday my mums back garden was 42c

I never watch tv, so dont catch the weather there, but I try and look on bbc at the local forecast, I find it fairly accurate :)

*flings some sunshine and heat Stoneys way*

[shiney]

It topped 31.5 here in the shade, according to my digital thermo thingy. This was the South West. It does annoy me how they scoot over Scotland and then go into great depth for the South East. Pesky BBC!

[Shirley]

This has always been the case...

Started off nice this morning.. I was hoping that it would be sunny all day but not so.... I'm not complaining about the weather itself... but it would be nice if the north was acknowledged in the BRITISH forecast...

[Muddypause]

Look, what's the problem?

Scotland: rain.

We'll let you know when you're due to get something else, OK?

[shiney]

Stew...you are BAAAAAD!

[Shirley]

PMSL Stew!!!!!

It's actually sometimes the hottest part of the uk up here... only sometimes... although conversely it's often the coldest too

[Martin]

what annoys me is not the areas they don't mention, but those that they do- why, oh why if you're watching the evening news do you get one strident harpie telling you the weather, closely followed by a bloke doing the same thing, then finishing off with the conditions in Abu Dhabi.....................WHY???????????????

[Shirley]

LMAO Martin

Actually - I've given up watching the news to hear my weather forecast.. I look it up online on www.metcheck.com - quite an interesting site with a forum dedicated to the weather in your area... makes everone of us a weather reporter

[Martin]

there is a US company called Weather.com, and they do quite a nifty plugin - I've used it here on a website - you'd never guess the programme was written by adolescent yanks - 'Passific", and their choice of town to default to
Out of hundreds).......... http://chiddingly.org.uk/e107_plugins/w ... eather.php

[Stonehead]

Look, what's the problem?

Scotland: rain.

We'll let you know when you're due to get something else, OK?

No, no, no. This is a common mistake by southerners. Up here, we get 5 days sunshine a year, 30 days rain and 30 days snow. The rest of the time?

It's dreich. A great word for describing typical Scottish weather of damp, dreary and overcast conditions, with occasional drizzle and the perpetual threat that it's about to pish doon. It never does - unless you dare attempt to do something that would be badly affected by rain, eg cut hay, have a barbecue, polish the car, etc.

[Stonehead]

Well, another dreich day up here (12C, overcast and occasional drizzle at the moment) while the weather forecasters continue to sweep their arms over the map of the UK and proclaim temperatures of 30+ and heatwave conditions.

Actually, the brief glimpse I had of the map had temperatures above 30 only in and around London, with bands of cloud stretching down to Lancashire and Yorkshire.

[Millymollymandy]

My problem is the weather forecast keeps telling me it is raining when it is NOT! It tells me we will have thunderstoms (like today) when we haven't had a single thunderstorm since we bought this place in Oct 2004.

I look at about 5 weather sites and every one says something different. Of course, none of them are right when they say we will have rain in summer.

Please someone send me rain. Leaves are starting to drop off here and I fear a non-existant plum harvest like last year.

BTW I find the UK's proclamation of what defines a heatwave a complete joke!!!

[Stonehead]

BTW I find the UK's proclamation of what defines a heatwave a complete joke!!!

Couldn't agree more - to me a heatwave begins around 40C. Same with the OH who lived in Egypt for a while and was made enough to go cycling in the desert!

[Millymollymandy]

BTW I find the UK's proclamation of what defines a heatwave a complete joke!!!

Couldn't agree more - to me a heatwave begins around 40C.

...... and it needs to last more than 3 days too!!!