On Mar 9, 9:47 pm, "Stephen Burt" wrote:
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

Very similar in Southampton - of the first 9 days of the month, it
rained significantly on all but two (7th and 9th) but there were clear
skies first thing in the morning (which often persisted much of the
day) on all but two (4th and 6th - and on the 6th it quickly cleared
after 0900)

Nick