13th May

Matt is back on nightshift tonight on News24. Great to see him again, I feel like I haven't seen him 'live' for ages, as I didn't catch any live forecasts even over the bank holiday weekend with having a visitor to stay.
I've been away at a conference in Newcastle for the last two days and what a shock that was!! We left Southampton with the numbers in the high 20's and arrived in Newcastle Monday afternoon to 12 degrees!!!!! Gutted or what!?!  Today was also cloudy (thin and very low judging by the flight home tonight) and it was still bloody cold!!! We arrived back in Southampton to 17 degrees which was not nearly so bad. BUT......having seen Matts forecasts it aint gonna last much longer!!! Wednesday sees the last of it. No fair!!! It has been fabulous recently. Just what the doctor ordered!!

And after a battle with the dvd player and two discs that simply refused to work I am now all set and really had better get some sleep. In true conference style I didn't get to bed til nearly 2am yesterday morning so am a little tired!! So just to recap, it was great to walk in the door and see Matt on tv less than 15 minutes later! Result! Welcome home!

Well, got lots of catching up to do now!! I had a chill out evening last evening, my  first bit of time to myself since Sunday, so now I got to get down to it!

Wednesday was another lovely day, but the last one lots more cloud over the bulk of the country.  We had isobars tonight as well showing us that 'lovely' low pressure around the Bay of Biscay.

On my local forecast Matt was giving me showers for wednesday afternoon!! (as I'm writing this retrospectively I am happy to confirm we got no rain until overnight, phew!) Most of the day was just fab. I was looking forward to the storms coming up from France but they went AWOL as well

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Now Matt was earning his dollars because not only was he doing News24 but chatting to JL on Radio 2 as well, doing the work of two people apparently, in the weather centre all on his own, ahhhh. So here is the audio clip, with Matt and the blue sunshine and the scary pizza delivery guy!