A very wet but also very sunny start to the month here. Most of the
rain seems to have fallen overnight and every day but one has seen 5
hours or more of sunshine so far.

Total to today 58.7 hr, 6.52 hr/day - the 1971-2000 average total for
the first 9 days of March is 28.07 hr, thus we are currently at 209%
normal.

March 1995 was the sunniest March on record in the Reading area, I
recorded 193.6 hr - 6.25 hr/day - so it has to maintain this for most
of the rest of the month to surpass that extreme. The days are getting
longer of course.

Stephen
Stratfield Mortimer