If I remeber rightly the summers of 1983 and 1989 were particularly good.

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... is Tuesday!

But make the most of it as yet more heavy rain is due to spread in
from
the west
on Wednesday.

I had to laugh at the media at lunchtime, they made a thing about
comparing this
week with that exceptional summer weather last year (as if that was
normal).
They also kept on saying why have got all this rain - its summer?
Hello -
ding.
You wouldn't get such torrential convective type origin downpours in
winter,
doh!

But week after week of incessant rain, with little or no respite from
it,
isn't 'normal' for summer either.
It's way before my time but I've heard it said in this ng that the
summers
of the 50s/60s were like this. Well I'm not sure I believe that. The
torrential
downpours, the terrible flooding, the woeful lack of sunshine.
Surely summer 2007 (so far) would compare poorly even with those more
'traditional' British summers?
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We have been spoilt in the 80s, 90s and 00s. Three
fine days and a thunderstorm is a cliche but it was true in the 60s, and
in the
50s as far as I know, except 1959 which was a 1990s type summer.

Spoilt in the *80s* is a frightening thought as my memory of 80s
summers was that they were generally unexceptional, though, except for
1980 and perhaps 1985 (I can't really remember August 1985 very well
though) better than this year. My memory doesn't really stretch back
much before that so I hope we're not going to flip into a period of
year-after-year sub-80s summers!

Was it not more that the 60s were very unusual though? To have lows
track near to 50N rather than between 60-70N must be unusual.

Nick