Topic: Bank Holiday Weather
Everyone knows that Bank Holidays mean rain. People in the street shrug their shoulders and say "Typical". TV weather girls look guilty and smile apologetically. It's a Bank Holiday so it's bound to be wet and cold and miserable. The poor holiday makers will huddle together in their caravans playing Monopoly until sulking children and claustrophobia force them into their cars and home two days early.
And when the sun shines all weekend and there's not a cloud in the sky we're all astonished at our luck and think to ourselves that we must have done something good.
How true is this? Is bad Bank Holiday weather a fact or a myth? Are there any statistics anywhere that prove that the last weekend in May is wetter than the weekends before or after? But it wouldn't make any difference if someone could demonstrate conclusively that Bank Holidays were, on average, warmer and drier than other weekends at the same time of year. We'd still go on believing in the intrinsic wetness of our hard-earned days of rest and complain bitterly with our typical British reserve.
