A good day to predict the Weather…
15 Jul 2020
Dear LPG,
We British are renowned for talking about the weather so I hope that LPG readers will indulge me while I do just that for today. Well not really today as I wrote this message in advance.
I am not sure if you will remember what it was like a few weeks ago but I am writing this little message on Wednesday June 10th 2020. Now, (I mean a couple of weeks ago when I actually wrote this), and after a really bright and sunny spring, we have had a week or so of duller weather but I, for one, am still locked down. So with 35 days to go I am asking LPG to post this message on this day of celebration. Did you know that today is St Swithin’s day?
According to the legend, St Swithin was a ninth century bishop who wanted to be buried outside so that the rain would fall on his grave, but his body was moved into an indoor shrine which resulted in the legend. So if it rains today we will have rain for the next forty days.
I think that this is one of those days that most of us have heard of somewhere along the line but I got to wondering just how accurate the prediction is. I know that most of the people who are likely to read LPG have also been around for quite a few of them now but I wonder if you can remember exactly what sort of weather we have had between July 15th and August 24th over the past few years.
I found a web article which gives an insight into some of the more recent relevant whether history and decided that, while I had nothing else to do, I would try to analyse the past in order to make a prediction about the future; specifically, what the weather will be like during the rest of July and August this year and, after a lot of analysis I can say that I have come to a definite conclusion.
This year has been hard for most of us throughout the world because of the lock-down and stay at home rules we have been forced to observe and, up to now, the weather has been quite bright which is a good thing.
My only finding is that the British Whether never disappoints which is another way of saying that, after minutes of research on the subject, I have absolutely no idea!
WD, Longfield.
WD shares the web-generated basis he used for his calculations…
