"Dave Cornwell" wrote:

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It's failed my bare foot test completely. I've not been able to nip out
onto the lawn or out the front to the Ice Cream van at all in bare feet
this year. Such a pain having to put something on your feet :-(
Dave

The 'bare foot test' - haven't come across that particular metric before,
but it seems like a good one! :-) I agree.

"BennyTheDip" wrote in message
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My ideal climate would be having 15 mm of rain every single week of the
year, no days above 22C ever.

Sounds like torture to me.
My ideal would be no days below 22c ever. :-)

worth noting that we had a week away on Skye in mid July and had a pretty
decent week...one wet day but it was.always comfortably warm (but not too
hot for enjoying walking) and at least three days were quite sunny
too........I suspect we chose a good week


"Yokel" wrote in message
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I think it depends very much which part of the UK you live in. The
further NW you live, the grimmer the summer has been. One of my friends
went for a 14 day holiday in Skye earlier this year and every single day
was a total washout. While rain is not exactly rare round that part of
the world, there are normally at least some days of sunshine and showers
amongst the wet days.

Down here in the "Deep South" the rain seems to have been concentrated in
heavy downpours. Most of our cricket matches have been spared, and a fair
proportion of those abandoned were due to wet ground conditions from
previous rain rather than bad weather at the time.

But it has hardly been a "good" summer. We have had much worse, but the
best of the weather was over the Easter weekend (!) and most of the summer
itself has been, in a word, "changeable". The only thing to be said for
it is that every Summer month has had at least one day over 25C, which has
not always been the case in past summers.

But like someone else on this thread, I have actually found conditions
quite pleasant for my favoured outdoor activity. I normally field in a
"run saving" position where you are either moving to field the ball if hit
towards you or moving to "back up" a throw if hit the other side. This
can get a bit wearing in 30C heat, while in a summer like the one just
about gone you can "give it your all".

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On 29/08/2011 8:15 PM, Gavino wrote:
My ideal would be no days below 22c ever. :-)

My ideal as well. I don't care much for the cold.

But unless I move to the Tropics, I'll have to put with it!
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Otter Valley, Devon

"Nick Gardner" wrote in message
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On 29/08/2011 8:15 PM, Gavino wrote:
My ideal would be no days below 22c ever. :-)

My ideal as well. I don't care much for the cold.

But unless I move to the Tropics, I'll have to put with it!

Nick you *are* in the tropics with the sort of high temperatures you get in
January :-)

Will
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On 30/08/2011 17:17, Will Hand wrote:
Nick you *are* in the tropics with the sort of high temperatures you get
in January :-)

O how I wish it was true....

Well, January 2007 was pretty 'mild'.
Mean min = 4.2°C
Mean max = 11.0°C
Mean = 7.6°C
Only 64 hours of sunshine though.

Unless I join Graham over in Penzance, I suppose I can't really find a
place that's much warmer for winter temperatures, maybe Wembury with Len.
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Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

On 29/08/2011 13:08, Dave Cornwell wrote:
I normally field in a
"run saving" position where you are either moving to field the ball
if hit towards you or moving to "back up" a throw if hit the other
side. This can get a bit wearing in 30C heat, while in a summer like
the one just about gone you can "give it your all".
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You won't be saying that in a few years when you end up in the slips
with your hands in your pockets to keep them warm ;-)
Dave

The way I catch, they may as well be there as anywhere else...

But I "run warm" anyway. If it's cold I might wear a "T" shirt under my
playing shirt. If it's really cold I might wear a long-sleeved
undershirt as well - but that doesn't average as much as once a season.
In five years of playing I have never worn a sweater on the field of
play - and that includes occasions when some of our keen young players
have worn "hoodies" for their umpiring stints.

It also has to be said that it is not as cold as it used to be -
especially early in the season. In my youth and early adulthood I can
remember some seriously bitter weather in May - including one occasion
when I umpired in a parka and another occasion when the pavilion
thermometer showed a resolute 5C on a sunny afternoon with a bitter
northerly wind. Round our part of the world (the New Forest), this sort
of thing just doesn't happen now. In fact, it is now not unknown for it
to be warm enough in February to cycle to an evening meeting in shorts
and T-shirt - you woudn't have done that much in the 1960s and 70s.

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"Nick Gardner" wrote in message
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Unless I join Graham over in Penzance, I suppose I can't really find a
place that's much warmer for winter temperatures, maybe Wembury with Len.

How about the Canary Islands?
Doesn't quite hit the 22C target, but for example Jan 1980-2000 averages for
Tenerife (South Airport) a

Avg Max: 21.6C
Avg Min: 15.2C
Avg Sun: 195hrs