Weather forecasting: your guess is as good as mine.
If there had been any more blue patches on yesterday evening’s weather map, the land wouldn’t have been visible at all. This had to be the easiest forecast in the world. No-one, we were assured by the BBC’s man from the Met office, would be able to escape a drenching, and thunderstorms were a definite possibility.
We quickly donned our cagoules, each of us setting new personal bests as we beat the times we had previously recorded in our regular Frumplingtons emergency weather drills. Now that’s what I call enthusiasm, especially as we weren’t planning on going anywhere — least of all outside.
Alas! all we got was an hour of light drizzle. Not even a hint of a storm. And this morning it’s bright and sunny. Some forecast that turned out to be! Here’s a tip for those Met office chappies: ditch the satellites — just toss a coin instead. We’ll keep our brollies to hand.