"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
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John Hall wrote:

In quite a few years the weather seems to take on a rather autumnal air
around the middle of August, the Fastnet storm being one of the more
extreme examples..

The last two Augusts have been rather poor - I know because I always spend
a week camping either in Swanage or on the Isle of Wight. We are going
next week to the Isle of Wight - a week earlier than usual.

I remember one storm, probably in 1990 or 1991 that caused half the tents
on the site to blow down overnight. (That was my first time!)

August Bank Holiday 1992, I suspect. The 'Weather Log'
correspondent wrote: "The unsettled spell culminated in a particularly
'autumnal' Bank Holiday weekend as an unusually deep depression
tracked across Ireland and Scotland. Its central pressure fell to 971mbar
overnight 30th/31st over northwest Scotland -- the third lowest in
August this century anywhere in the UK. Fair Isle reported a gust of
70kn."

Philip