On Sat, 21 May 2005 12:32:08 GMT, "Roger Smith"
inspired by Deep Thought wrote:


"Nigel Morgan" wrote in message
.. .
Current temp (11.45BST) is just 10.1C with steady moderate rain for the
last two
hours. No sign of any sunshine for the next hour or so.

This May is surely going to be one of the coldest in the last 30 or so
years.

Nigel

We await Philip's CET temperature anomaly to show for 1-20 May on
http://www.climate-uk.com/page2.html. With the warm start to the month and
mild nights likely for the next week or so the month might not finish up too
far from average, even if one's gut feeling might suggest otherwise.

Regards, Roger


Hmmm.. yes! As you say it looks like the predicted warm days/nights next week
could even things out a bit. Note the interesting stats on that site for the
anomalies 10th-20th: i.e. temp 9.8C (-1.4C), sunshine 96% but look at the
rainfall.. just 55%! Even so, I don't think I can ever remember so many
consecutive night frosts in May before!

BTW, in spite of a considerable amont of sunshine, it's only 14.3C here now!

Oh, and we had a couple of rumbles of thunder yesterday in the midst of the
four-hour deluge! Next-door neighbour's garage was flooded by gallons of water
running down their garage door & then being blown in under the door by the stiff
wind! For quite a while it looked like the downpour was fairly localised as
there were brighter skies to the south/south-east.

Cheers,
Nigel

Aagh! Every time I learn something new... it pushes something old out of my brain!