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Default Second driest first six months since 1929?

On 02/07/10 05:57, Col wrote:
It's not misleading.
Everybody knows 'NW' means NW England.
Nobody is going to think I meant the Outer Hebridies!


Many years ago, I was in digs in Stanmore and my landlord and landlady
said the radio weather forecasts were always wrong. I asked what
forecasts they were listening to. They replied that they always listened
for the NW region, which makes some kind of sense in a London-centric way.

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