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UK Met office offers hostage to fortune

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  • 30-04-2009 12:57pm
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    mike65
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    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/30/warm-summer-uk-forecast
    The chief meteorologist at the Met Office, Ewen McCallum, said: "After two disappointingly wet summers the signs are much more promising this year. We can expect times when temperatures will be above 30C — something we hardly saw at all last year."

    Although the forecast is "odds-on for a barbecue summer", according to the forecasters, the UK can still expect some heavy downpours at times.

    Last summer was the seventh wettest since 1914 with 320.2mm of rain for whole three months. The average previously has been 226.9, figures show.

    The mean temperature this summer will be 14.4C. Last year it was 14.48 but this was due to high night-time temperatures, while the daytime temperature was below average, a spokeswoman for the Met Office said.

    "This year there will be times when the temperature gets above 30C — last year it only got above 30C once — 30.2C in Cambridge on 28 July," she said.

    The Met Office said the conditions behind the brighter forecast were due to warmer sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.

    "There are indications that through the summer this year the seas of the Pacific are going to warm up a bit and that leads to high pressure developing over Europe that brings warmer, drier conditions," she added.

    "Over the last two summers we've had cool sea temperatures in the Pacific which has bought the wet weather

    Bring it on (and a bit further west)


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    TheGreenGiant
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    Trying not to jinx it but I do think that this summer will be much better than the previous 2-3 years. This is due to the cold winter we have had compared to the very mild winters of previous years and the fact that March and April haven't been as sunny or warm this year to previous years. So I do think we are in for a much better summer:D


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    ian_m
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    Anything to cheer everybody up a bit. :cool: Here's hoping.


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    Sea Devils
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    The fact that a "a long hot summer" could possibly come after one of the coldest winters in years would be pretty special:cool:


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