WE have no shortage of forecasts that promise us rain, but then fizzle out into nothingness with an hour or two to go before the downpour is due. Around 8 or 9am our forecast from the Met Office was suggesting a 70% chance of heavy rain between 11am and 1pm. We had none. At that same time, an 80% chance of heavy rain was forecast between 2 and 3pm. That has now been downgraded to a 50% chance of light rain petering out into showers for the rest of the afternoon.
This seems to happen frequently. I cannot recall an occasion on which, as the event approached, the forecast was for a higher intensity or greater likelihood of rain.
Is this just a feature of the fact that I live in pretty much the driest town in the UK or do others notice a similar trait?