 |
| Courtesy of LGC |
Intend to run errands today but rain begins. Check with AccuWeather to see if radar shows probable improvement. AccuWeather radar purports to show that night rain has moved off to Syria with none showing to the west of us any nearer than Albania. On the other hand, credibility somewhat undermined by message saying no precipitation for the next 60 minutes when rain continues to fall outside our window. So much for trademark “Superior Accuracy”. Must admit, though, to having ignored their invitations to “upgrade to a better weather experience” having cynically supposed that this referred to paying for dubious benefits such as improved graphics. Perhaps better weather was genuinely magically on offer to those of pure heart. Full rainbow appears over the Mediterranean but disappears immediately. Magic vanishes.
Maybe there’s something inherently amusing about weather forecasting. Refer to the Met office here for more, dare I hope, accuracy. Result: “The weekly forecast from today will be occasionally rainy, scattered showers in the eastern parts of the country on Wednesday”. Leaving aside the question of whether it is the forecast or the weather itself that will be occasionally rainy - and allowing for translation glitches - am left wondering about the western part of the country, in which we happen to be living. Doesn’t appear in the next sentence - or anywhere else in the forecast.
And then there’s my all time favourite weatherman line, going back to London in 2015 when the forecaster referred to a low pressure area, hovering over Ireland before its inevitable move east, as "lurking with intent".