OOP weather

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 90039

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "president0084" 
<president0084 at y...> wrote:
> 
> The drought can be explained away by the fact that surrey is in the 
> South of England which normally has draught over the summer. 
Scotland 
> (Hogwarts)is in the very north of the island hence generally colder.

Geoff:
Actually, Surrey does not /normally/ have a drought. (One of the 
driest areas of the UK is East Anglia). The most serious general 
droughts were in 1976 and then, there was long spell of fine, dry, 
weather in the latter part of the summer of 1994 and then, as OOTP 
suggests, there was a long hot summer in 1995 which was fairly wide 
spread throughout the UK.I think the references in the book refer to 
later in the Autumn when the weather had changed in general. 

I really cannot subscribe to Mandy's suggestion that our weather 
stinks. I walk my dogs 4-5 miles a day and very rarely do I get 
really wet. Even yesterday, with the gales battering our house (we 
face west up the Bistol Channel) I was still able to get out and 
dodge the showers and stay dry; where we live, we can usually 
forecast the weather for the next couple of hours just by watching 
the sky and the wind.