Met office cools summer forecast

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So..was the original 'barbeque summer' forecast a ploy to boost the UK economy by encouraging us to holiday in the UK and get soaking wet instead of lying on a sunny beach somewhere warm?

imagines a treasury employee slipping a tenner into the pocket of met office weather official

My DH was against my booking a holiday abroad on the basis that it was going to be lovely here, we live by the sea anyway, and it would be a waste of a nice summer to go away. Now we're going in a week and it's tipping it down, he's a lot more happy about the fact we're off on holiday!

We walked round town last night and felt quite sorry for people on their family holidays here. When the weather's good, it's a lovely place to come to, but when it rains there's not much for families to do in the evenings.

I am thanking God we went to Cornwall in the first week in June when it was 26 C everyday.

I can't believe people would not book a foreign holiday based on a forecast that was made three months ago.

They generally don't even get it right a week in advance, so anyone who bought into the "It's going to be a hot summer," forecasts is incredibly naive IMO.

They can't even get it right a day in advance. I planned today based on the cast iron forecast it would pour down all day yet there hasn't been a drop yet.

Bolter, don't feel too smug

Have you not seen the forecast for France?

still seems muggy though, even in the rain, so i will be making the most of my british holiday and will be on the beach at 9am to get my money's worth

quite cold here, for end July

aout 14-15 deg C

more like March than July

Well it took our minds off the recession for abit, didn't it?

Then Swine Flu took our minds off the crap weather.

What will it be next?

widespread flooding, of course

widespread flooding, of course

I am having deja vu for school summer holidays last year. Wet, cold and windy, turned lovely after the DDs went back to school in September!

Remembers all the cancelled picnics, meeting in parks, b-b-qs we cancelled last Summer and were hoping to have this year. Ho Humm