Vic Matcham wrote:Dover has it own weather not the same as the rest of the UK.
Up here in Essex the BBC/Met Office base their forecasts on a weather station that's 30 miles from here. Unfortunately 'here' is at Harwich on the coast and it suffers a similar problem to Dover, a micro-climate. With Dover it's the twin valleys, with Harwich it's the peninsula effect, North Sea to the South & East and River Stour to the North.
Fortunately Essex has it's own weather service
Essex Weather which produces pretty accurate town-based forecasts. The firm is branching into Suffolk in the next few months and may be planning a Kent service soon too.
Paul
(currently wearing a wrist support owing to a recent encounter with a stretch of ice whilst walking daughter home)