Candida - Yeah thats good to know really, as long as the weather forecast is accurate or on the negative side, then I don't mind really. We are off to Aghios Nikolaos, Crete at the end of august so that's where I'm planning on getting my sun from this year! I would be interested to know what your personal top things to do or places to see around the Bodmin-Liskeard-Looe area are..?
Shedevil - I'm sorry to hear that! Where were you staying in Wales last weekend? Living in the Valleys it's a nightmare to predict the weather, as you never know what weather system is going to skip or indeed come up into the valley, and if it does, then it usually hangs around there aswell!
Paulr783 - Indeed, thats what I have been reading for the last 2 weeks now nearly - A totally mixed up forecast, I guess that sums up the entire UK at the moment really though!
yeah they dont have a clue i think they use a phone book and dial up ppl at random and say"wots weather like there " then tell every 1 wot they been told
As someone whos obsessive about the weather- it drive OH mad!! (I have SAD so need warm weather) This year i dont think the forcasters have a clue from one week to the next. Usually I look at the weather sites on the long range forcasts and in previous years theyve been fairly accurate as to wether its gonna be a hot/rainy/windy etc etc summer but they were quite cagey this year and i noticed they didnt commit to saying much. I think everyones right in saying just go and get on with it and enjoy the days away - good and bad!!
There is only ONE WAY to study the weather forecasts, prior to a planned holiday, and here it is: -
Watch the long term forecast, from 3 months in advance if possible.
Keep watching them, and this is the absolutely vital bit, UNTIL they give a forecast you can live with reasonably happily.
As soon as this happens, wether it is the first or the thirtieth forecast you have seen, DO NOT LOOK AT ANOTHER FORECAST UNTIL YOU ARRIVE AT YOUR CHOSEN DESTINATION.
When you arrive at your chosen destination, you should check again. A severe weather warning for the local area is your cue to NOT unpack the tent, but instead to get your credit card out, and find a lovely little B&B, thus giving you a holiday still, but one that is NOT ruined by the tent blowing off in the middle of the night.
This may require an amount of overtime to be put in on your return, but is a small price to pay, when you gaze out of the lounge bar window, pint in hand, and entertain yourselves by placing bets on wether it will be the badly pegged Vango, or the well pegged no-name tent which will be gone in the morning.
Hi all, we went to shanklin, IOW on the 7th july for a week. the week before we contstantly looked at the weather and it said a mixture of rain and cloud and sun for the day we arrived. Well, the sat we got there, it was 27 degrees and we made it to the beach that afternoon, sun was the same, mon was a bit cloudier but still beach weather, that nite we had force 5 gales and torrential rain, (that was scary but the tent/canopy and windbreak stood up to it all. tues & wed were mixture of scattered showers and very warm sun, thur/fri were beach weather yet again,
SO WE SAY, IGNORE THE B****Y WEATHER, GO AND ENJOY.
The weather people can never get it right 100% of the time.
Hi - just go prepared- as advised by others. There is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes! So take waterproofs, layers, AND suncream - just in case of a miracle!
As for your questions about the tent - I have only found a slightly blurry pic here - it that is ( scroll 2/3rds down page) Have you not used it yet?
If that is it then it looks to me like the domed bedroom area goes up inner first - so you will peg it out and put poles diagonally thru the sleeves, lift them to form the dome and fasten the pole ends. Then the fly sheet goes over that, with a third pole threaded through it to hold the extended porch area up. Once that is pegged down you will have a groundsheet to go in there and a 2nd bedroom pod to hang up, if you want to use it.
If my guess is correct the only slight problem you may have is that the inner dome bit will be vulnerable if you try to put up in heavy rain (as that fabric is not fully waterproofed like the flysheet), so you may have to chose your moment for erecting and de-camping too.
Sunncamp are a reliable mid range make - we had a tourist plus for several years and now have a bravo 4 and have never had any problems.
I've given up on the weather forecasts as We wanted to go away for the Scarborough Bike week and I looked at all the sites... Met office environment agency blah blah blah...
They all reported the end of the world and the Sunday turned out perfect so I'm not bothering now and just up sticks and go!
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but the tent/canopy and windbreak stood up to it all. tues & wed were mixture of scattered showers and very warm sun, thur/fri were beach weather yet again,
