Gareth Slee wrote:
Col wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5219848.stm

Any comments on this?
From the models I have seen, it looks like being cooler, perhaps actually
*below* average for a time next week. Then the GFS at least seems to
buiild high pressure back in again. But that's more than a week off.


I think this line from the article says it all.
"Statistically August tends to be hotter than July."

We have a couple of bona fide nice weather spells coming up in August
with the phases from the 9th and the 31st. I will be watching for rain
in the SE of England during those spells. Tey will explain a lot about
what I have written in the past about the shipping bulletin the BBC
used to produce when the BBC was a service.

But why are July and August so hot? Do they remember something about
June? Or is it that both Siberian/Scandinavian ridges and Azores Highs
tend to wabble our way a lot in those months?