"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!)


Augusts have normally neen the warmest and most pleasant of summer months on
Dartmoor in recent years.

Will
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