UK Weather Maps

[MegaSteve]

Still can't understand why folk are interested in national forecasts [whatever the mapping] when local weather forecast is more pertinent...

Is it just for wanting to feel disadvantaged...

 

[Robster59]

Still can't understand why folk are interested in national forecasts [whatever the mapping] when local weather forecast is more pertinent...

Is it just for wanting to feel disadvantaged...

Because some people travel and like to know what its like where they're going to.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Because some people travel and like to know what its like where they're going to.

That’s a very valid point, but do they then think “ that place has shrunk, therefore I need rethink my travel time?”
I bet they just take no notice of the pictorial depiction and carry on.

 

[drdel]

I guess this thread proves the stereotypical view that the British are obsessed with the weather and whinging

 

[backwoodsman]

Kendal

Nope.........it's Carlisle. . 28 miles from Lockerbie.

Obsessive that l am, I've worked it out ...

Using latitude & longitude co-ordinates, the northernmost and southernmost points are 1274km apart - as the crow flies. Halfway point is at 55.21N; 03.36W. Which is at drum-roll ...........

near as dammit at Johnstonebridge services on the M74 about 16km north of Lockerbie

 

[FairwayDodger]

Basically, there's no sense of perspective on the internet.

 

[Imurg]

Basically, there's no sense of perspective on the internet.

Taken you long enough to work that out Kaz!:rofl:

 

[Hobbit]

Obsessive that l am, I've worked it out ...

Using latitude & longitude co-ordinates, the northernmost and southernmost points are 1274km apart - as the crow flies. Halfway point is at 55.21N; 03.36W. Which is at drum-roll ...........

near as dammit at Johnstonebridge services on the M74 about 16km north of Lockerbie

Second best services in the UK, after Tebay.

 

[Old Skier]

Second best services in the UK, after Tebay.

Have you not tried Gloucester Services.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Obsessive that l am, I've worked it out ...

Using latitude & longitude co-ordinates, the northernmost and southernmost points are 1274km apart - as the crow flies. Halfway point is at 55.21N; 03.36W. Which is at drum-roll ...........

near as dammit at Johnstonebridge services on the M74 about 16km north of Lockerbie

Good man.

I was once told that I was obsessed with numbers. I was never quite sure if it was a compliment.:lol:

 

[Doon frae Troon]

That’s a very valid point, but do they then think “ that place has shrunk, therefore I need rethink my travel time?”
I bet they just take no notice of the pictorial depiction and carry on.

Kent did not shrink....it was simply corrected to it's proper size by the BBC. [after 13 years thinking about it]

 

[Hobbit]

Have you not tried Gloucester Services.

At 4am in the morning after a callout to the special care baby unit at the hospital in Gloucester... I was too tired to even notice.