Evening 

Here are my updated thougths for the weather in Kent for the week ahead (3rd March - 10th March)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yb8RvtYYtc

In the light of this much welcomed warm and sunny weather, lets play the annual "Headlines Bingo" game where you tick off any or all of the stuff that will appear in the national newpapers tomorrow, even though it is earlier than usual this year.

That includes phrases such as "Scorchio", "Warmer than Ibiza/the Med/Corfu" and the overuse of the word "Mercury".

Along with all that, there'll be a photo of a scantly clad Emma aged 20 splashing about at Bournemouth Beach, the rear view of an elderly couple sitting on deckchairs at Eastbourne, a student laying on grass reading a book at Hyde Park, a little girl wearing a bonnet-type hat slurping on ice cream and snarling traffic jams on the A23 to Brighton (and the place names are all in BOLD CAPITALS).

A mention that not everywhere had this warm spell where parts of the Hghlands had blizzards.

All that will be accompanied with a cartoon sun wearing sunglasses and smiling away and temperatures are all in fahrenheit because it sounds bigger.


If all of those does appear on the papers then it will be a full house.

UK Outlook for Friday 14 Mar 2014 to Sunday 23 Mar 2014:

Remaining settled and mostly dry on Friday with variable amounts of cloud and sunny spells, with the best of these in the south. However thicker cloud will affect some northwestern parts, gradually moving south during the day, and bringing some light outbreaks of rain and drizzle. Temperatures will be near normal or just above, although colder overnight, perhaps with frost or fog under any clearer skies. Into the weekend it will turn unsettled across the north, with wet and windy periods and hill snow, but staying dry, but cloudier in the south. These unsettled conditions will continue next week in the north, interspersed by colder interludes with wintry showers. Whilst generally staying drier and brighter in the south, some colder and more unsettled weather is also possible at times.

UK Outlook for Monday 24 Mar 2014 to Monday 7 Apr 2014:

The current trend is for fairly typical conditions for the end of March and April, with a changeable mixture of showery outbreaks of rain and drier, sunnier intervals. Although it will also be feeling cold at times. As such, some spells of wet and windy weather should be expected, these most frequent in the north, with the risk of hill snow. However there will also be drier and brighter interludes, with the best of these to the south and east. Temperatures are likely to be near normal or below, especially in the north, and any clearer nights will be rather cold with the risk of frost.

Issued at: 1600 on Sun 9 Mar 2014

Certainly a chilly outlook

Evening weather chums. Here are my springlike thoughts for the weather in Kent for the week ahead (10-18th March). 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq9jKEX7bUA

Thanks Steve, was a lovely day yesterday, had a good few hours in the sun  Looking forward to a decent week, Meto showing mist for me midweek but can't complain...atleast it's dry

Cheers Jonesy. The cloud later this afternoon and the NEly both combined to remind us that it still early March. Hopefully this will be a blip in an otherwise fine week. 

Daily Express predicting months of hot weather!

It seems they have now switched from Winter madness mode to Summer madness mode. What a joke paper

What I can't make out (and never can), is how they constantly get away with the crap they publish with nobody in higher authority questioning them.

It just seems that they publish whatever crap they want, and the Met Office then get the stick, no matter how much Met Office distance themselves from over-hyped, sensationalist nonsense.

The trouble is, one day, they will be right, and then they (not the Met Office) will get all the credit.

The paper should not even be in existence, it's taken over the mantle from the Daily Sport from years ago as basically nothing more than a comic with silly little titbits of rubbish.

SHAME ON YOU DAILY EXPRESS.

Looks like the Daily Mail have jumped on the bandwagon too now.

Do these people NEVER look at the models. Warm sunshine to continue for the rest of the month, my arse!!

Ridiculous!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2582012/Britain-course-hottest-summer-starting-weathermen-say-warm-days-stay-March.html

Evening

Here is my updated weather forecast for Kent for the week ahead. (17th-23rd March 2014). 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgK1n71Zd_E

Tragic really - given that we cannot reliably forecast a week ahead it should be consigned to the file marked "Bxllox"

Some would argue that you can make general seasonal predictions nowadays but I think even that is highly questionable and certainly when picking out an extreme like that headline would be down to pure luck if it were correct

well if you are dumb enough to believe it

Evening.

Here are my updated thoughts for the weather in Kent for the week ahead (or so) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAzPL2QS6cA

Evening. 

Here are my updated thoughts for the weather in Kent for the week ahead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ1aXmWgoNo

Good forecast Steve!  Im enjoying the useable weather.  I feel a trip to the lighthouse inn may be required at some point in the next month!

OTT as always from them but worth noting the poor air quality at present...

Meto do have it as a 9 IMBY

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/468085/Return-of-the-KILLER-SMOG-Worst-pollution-in-60-YEARS-to-strike-Britain-TOMORROW

According to the Express, the "worst" of everything strikes Britain everyday

They had a discussion about this on the Today programme on R4 this morning around 8.30

Just goes to show you can't please all of the people all of the time

When the BBC reports Government "green" initiatives to reduce CO2 emisisons they get lambasted by the sceptics as relaying AGW propoganda with a "warmist" agenda

This time was the opposite argument saying that because an overwhelming percentage of scientific opinion supports AGW, the pro arguments should be given a lot more air time compared to the anti

He likened this to allowing the Monster Raving Loony Party getting the same amount of electoral air-time as the Conservative Party

He was especially critical of the Today Programme a few weeks ago when Nigel Lawson got a long slot to propound his sceptical views against Sir Brian Hoskins

You just can't win !

Whoever wrote this daft piece isn't old enough to remember the smog of 1952 - probably not old enough to remember the Millennium elebartions, even.