Retro Yakking

It always rains in the North, except when it snows.

Question: can the Met Office make it sunny for me? Let’s find out…

From: Harry Yack
Sent: 20 December 2008 12:59:01
To: enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk

Good day. I hope you are having a very Happy Christmas.

The thing is, I’m going to Scotland for my Christmas holidays tomorrow and I noticed, according to Sky News, things are going to be rather wet and windy. I was wondering if you could perhaps have a word with Michael Fish, or someone, and make it nice and sunny for me? Only I’ve packed my swimming trunks to go swimming in the lake and it isn’t really going to be that pleasant if it’s a dull, dreary and cold day.

Could you possibly do that for me? The specific location is Blair Castle near Pitlochry. Thank you for being so kind, and once again have a very Merry Christmas! I wouldn’t touch too many sherries if I were you, though.

Harry Yack,
Lancashire

A couple of hours later… a reply… oh boy! I’ll be sunning myself on the beaches of Pitlochry before I know it!

Hello Harry

Thank you for your email. I hope that you will find the following information regarding the next 5 days weather in the Central Tayside and Fife region of Scotland useful. Unfortunately, in excess of these 5 days, all I can offer you is an outlook for the whole of the UK. I have also included this.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:
A mainly dry and settled period, although the odd shower possible at first on Monday. Cloud amounts will vary, some bright or clear spells expected. Patchy frost and fog.

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Kind Regards
Luke Simpson, Weather Desk Advisor
Met Office

So can the Met Office work miracles? Well, not really. Or maybe, they can but they’re keeping it from us all in some sort of strange conspiracy! Who knows, but it seems not even Michael Fish could help me in my quest to make The North sunny. Oh well.

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