Martin wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:37:19 +0100, d4g4hd@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_
> chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
> >Martin wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:31 +0100, d4g4hd@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_
> >> chancellor (*)) wrote:
> >>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On 20 apr, 11:08, Martin wrote:
> >> >[]
> >> >> > >There's been no lack of rain round here - in Germany, maybe, but not
> >> >> > >in Soggy Bottoms.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > It hasn't rained for two weeks in ZH.
> >> >>
> >> >> But before that it rained solid for six months.
> >> >
> >> >It doesn't seem to have rained as much as I'd have expected here in the
> >> >last 6 months. I'm doing that by the highly scientific and reliable "how
> >> >often have I felt I've been caught out in the rain in the last 6 months"
> >> >test. :)
> >>
> >> The amount of rain and lack of sunshine was noticeable during the last two
> >> weeks of March, when we were in UK.
> >
> >Where you _were_ in the UK, which is what I thought when you posted as
> >much then.
>
> The North East coast& the Whitby area. We had a sunny weekend in Sheffield
> whilst we were there, otherwise we had an enormous gale, blizzards, thick fog
> and torrential rain and an occasional bright period.
>
> >Not much rain in much of the west, and a lot of sunshine. I
> >don't have a photographic memory for sure (!), but a good memory of the
> >weather in particular places, and checking my diary for those two weeks
> >just then, it was mostly very fine weather wherever I was then, which
> >was almost exclusively on the west.
>
> In the Netherlands the weather was exceptionally fine during most of the same
> two weeks.
Sounds like quite bad luck. It was definitely very nice on March 19
(Monday) in your part of the UK, because I flew over it from Bergen to
Manchester, and got the clearest view of the area I think I've ever
gotten! :)
As well as statistics (which show better weather in the east in general)
I'm impressed by the number of times I've been to various eastern spots
in the UK in recent years with fine weather. Half a dozen trips to
Newcastle and environs in the last few years, as well as the same to
Aldeburgh, always sunny! However, there is the time we took a trip to
Scarborough and the sun came out for 5 seconds! Maybe I should only ever
go to the east on business? :)
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