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Weekend Weather 3/4 August 2002

This is our regular Friday round-up of what's in store for the weekend. Note that the excellent Online Weather mountain weather forecast is being re-vamped and will be unavailable until July - see this update - as a result the clickable links on the map below are temporarily unavailable. Still are, that's web site redesigns for you. We'll let you know as soon as the mountain weather forecast is back.

• The Met Office says things are getting better, sort of, with the rain that's been bucketing down the last few days moving northwards and on into Scotland, today leaving behind it sunshine and showers in most of England. But then as the rain moves off the north of the island it looks as though there'll be more thundery stuff popping up from the south again.

• The BBC Weather site uses Met Office data, but is generally easier to follow. Their five-day forecast is region specific and you can select by town name or post code. Mainly it agrees with the Met Office details - no surprise there then - except that there ain't no sunny intervals predicted except in Milton Keynes. Check specific areas: Fort William / Kendal / Betws-y-Coed / Aviemore / Skipton / Glossop (Peak) / Brecon / Milton Keynes.

• Saturday's general forecast from Online Weather wet in far north, warm with sunny spells elsewhere. Sunday sunny spells with showers virtually everywhere.

• BBC Pollen Forecast We're on the downward slope now, especailly with all this rain.

It's not as bad as it was a couple of days ago
Not exactly what we expect from August

Verdict Skip over to the Met Office to take a look at their exciting rainfall animation. Jon will probably have more to say on this, but at the moment he's paddling home towards Glossop in a beautiful pea-green boat.

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