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[shuggee]

That's really interesting Julian - the word 'snow' featured but once in the Scottish forecast - and that was for Tuesday daytime, as a passing mention regarding blustery showers for the highest mountains.

[tom_f123]

countryfile 19th nov 06
peter gibbs forecasted very wet and windy tonight and tommorow.storm force winds in the north west of scotland. drier on tuesday with showers again turning to snow across high ground. he then said tuesday night into wednesday could be interesting when the next active front moves in and bumps against the cold air across the uk it could turn to snow anywere midlands northwards. and then through the week changeable staying chilly right through the week

[snowmaiden]

Peter also mentioned a lot this week depends on where the jet goes... not sure I have heard them mention the jet on the general forecast before. SHows that they are still (as are the models) unsure how far south it will track.
Interestingly he avoided putting up temps for Tuesday which looks by far the coldest day of the week, by Weds the South is back in double figures on the CFile forecast.
A heads up given for the potentially stormy end to the week.

[Snowyowl9]

tom_f123, on 19 Nov 2006, 12:38 PM, said:

countryfile 19th nov 06
Storm force winds in the north west of scotland.

I havn`t seen storm force mentioned on the bbc weather for qute a few years.

[West is Best]

snowmaiden, on 19 Nov 2006, 01:00 PM, said:

Peter [...] avoided putting up temps for Tuesday which looks by far the coldest day of the week,

Hi Snowmaiden, I just came back and watched it on replay and I hate to beg to differ but he definitely showed temps for Tuesday.

To be honest the most remarkable thing about the forecast for me was his attire. I'm not saying I'm against 'casual' on TV at all, but the white t-shirt underneath the sweater was an unusual look for television I thought. Very 'dressed down' for Sunday and all that.

[snowmaiden]

West is Best, on 19 Nov 2006, 02:16 PM, said:

Hi Snowmaiden, I just came back and watched it on replay and I hate to beg to differ but he definitely showed temps for Tuesday.

To be honest the most remarkable thing about the forecast for me was his attire. I'm not saying I'm against 'casual' on TV at all, but the white t-shirt underneath the sweater was an unusual look for television I thought. Very 'dressed down' for Sunday and all that.

OK, to be fair my attention was momentarily diverted so I must have missed it!
Sorry Mr Gibbs.
Big divergence Wednesday between the CFile and the latest and some previous GFS runs.

[Lord of the clouds]

West is Best, on 19 Nov 2006, 02:16 PM, said:

Hi Snowmaiden, I just came back and watched it on replay and I hate to beg to differ but he definitely showed temps for Tuesday.

To be honest the most remarkable thing about the forecast for me was his attire. I'm not saying I'm against 'casual' on TV at all, but the white t-shirt underneath the sweater was an unusual look for television I thought. Very 'dressed down' for Sunday and all that.

Totally agree with that. Obviously didn't make it to the dry cleaners to collect the cleaned suit!!

[Ross B]

Dont they alwyas have a casual look on countryfile? Whats wrong with that, it's a sunday morning when they should be in bed

[crepuscular ray]

They've done the casual look on Countryfile since the summer, as if their taking their jackets off makes a forecast more relevant to 'countryfolk' (or perhaps the media types in television centre think it does). At least it's not as bad as Breakfast: did anyone else spot Matt Taylor in waders up to his chest in a pond full of floating cranberries at Kew Gardens earlier in the autumn. What a waste of licence fee

[Jackfrost]

If anyone saw it today could you possibly tell me what it said? It's pretty important... and yes, it's pretty hypocritical for me to ask since I used to wrote the forecasts

[Jackone]

Wet and Windy pretty much sums it up, temps always probably on the mild side, but maybe cooling off into single figures at the end of the the week, no wintriness is likely there at all.

[johnholmes]

I used to wrote the forecasts

really!!

[Chris Mantle]

johnholmes, on 3 Dec 2006, 06:02 PM, said:

I used to wrote the forecasts

really!!

Must have been the Ceefax page 888 version

Edited by Chris Mantle, 03 December 2006 - 18:05 .

[Jackfrost]

Thanks Ju.

And that was a TYPO people! I'm usually a Grammar Nazi.

[kippure]

Mild and wet "very wet" for the north of scotland for a time this week then "something cooler" for the weekend. The rest of us have the usual mix of strong gales wet and very mild conditions to look forward to for the time of year. Maybe touching 13C - 14 C.

[swansearob]

This weeks forecast from Countryfile in 3gp format (10.4MB)

requires Quicktime should be viewable via browser

Link will be unavailable after 17-12-06

Edited by button-wales, 10 December 2006 - 15:19 .

[disco-barry]

Button that is a 3gp text file, just jargon to most.

[The PIT]

Anyone see this weeks forecast as I forgot to set the timer.

[Andy Bown]

The PIT, on 17 Dec 2006, 03:39 PM, said:

Anyone see this weeks forecast as I forgot to set the timer.

Apart from a weak front bringing rain to the SW areas tonight/tomorrow, then another weak front in the far N later in the week, this week will be dry and chilly under a large HIGH pressure. Lots of cloud making it a 'forecasters nightmare' (quote from Peter Gibbs' presenting) with patchy fog & frost where cloud breaks overnight and some sunshine possible where cloud breaks in the daytime. Max temps 5-8c on the whole, maybe up to 10c in the SW tomorrow and again in the far N as Atlantic winds blow in on Thursday.

In short ; a cloudy, cool, anticyclonic week.

[The PIT]

Andy Bown, on 17 Dec 2006, 03:53 PM, said:

Apart from a weak front bringing rain to the SW areas tonight/tomorrow, then another weak front in the far N later in the week, this week will be dry and chilly under a large HIGH pressure. Lots of cloud making it a 'forecasters nightmare' (quote from Peter Gibbs' presenting) with patchy fog & frost where cloud breaks overnight and some sunshine possible where cloud breaks in the daytime. Max temps 5-8c on the whole, maybe up to 10c in the SW tomorrow and again in the far N as Atlantic winds blow in on Thursday.

In short ; a cloudy, cool, anticyclonic week.

Ah well 5c - 8c I wouldn't call chilly considering the timne of year but what we've been used it will seem like it. I thought this week would be rather uneventful somehow.