Okay, this is a fairly dirty hack - but it should do the trick. You need to change the for loop that extracts the information from the @lines array to look like this:

for my $line (@lines) {
    if ($line =~ /^Forecast for/ && !$adeldesc) {
        while ($lines[$cnt++] ne "") {
            $adeldesc .= " $lines[$cnt]";
        }
    }

    if ($line =~ /^([\w\s]+):.*?Max\s+(\d+)/) {
        $cities{$1}{max} = $2;
    }
    $cnt++;
}
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The change is the insertion of the while loop at the top, which basically says: "If the next line is not blank, append its contents to the $desc variable. (There always appears to be a blank line before the precis forecast).

This gives me the following output:

var adeldesc = " Fine, with high cloud. Cool to mild with light to mod
+erate northeast to northwest winds. "
var mtbkmax = "15"
var noarmax = "16"
var adelmax = "17"
var elizmax = "17"
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Cheers,
Darren :)

Thanks Darren, That did the trick ...thanks so much! cheers, pip