Paper Monitor
10:21 UK time, Monday, 2 May 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Paper Monitor hopes all UK-based Monitorites are enjoying a pleasant bank holiday, this service forsaking, as ever, the pleasures of the outdoors in pursuit of its riches-finding mission.
But don't worry about PM, who may not be able to enjoy a sunny day off first-hand, but can at least read about it in the papers.
runs the headline the in the Daily Mail, trumpeting what is apparently a "glorious May Day bank holiday" with "sunshine and blue skies across most of the country".
By contrast, the paper notes with satisfaction, on Sunday "Spain and the Algarve suffered heavy thunderstorms".
The Mail assures us that the prolonged fine weather will continue until at least Thursday and quotes an "independent weather forecaster" who foresees not just a dry May, but the these conditions possibly continuing into June and July.
The Daily Telegraph, likewise, says a hosepipe ban could be in the offing, citing a Met Office pundit who believes there is
But not all of Fleet Street is so optimistic (or pessimistic, if you're a farmer).
The Times records that April was the warmest in central England for 350 years, but warns that the UK may have already seen
It recalls ominously that "something very similar happened in 2007 when April was also very hot, but was followed by a summer of rain that led to serious floods".
The Sun is even more gloomy (or cheerful, if your livelihood depends on arable crops).
It has drafted in none other than weatherman John Kettley - yes, he of the - who believes "summer has come early but it won't last".
Mr Kettley believes that July and August are
Paper Monitor is reminded of the Met's infamous 2009 prediction of a The prospect is cloudy for whomever on Fleet Street is proved wrong.
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