On 31 Aug, 14:15, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:
Although using the 'areal' series that the Met Office have produced,
this summer is a 'record-breaker' for England as a whole (at least
since 1914), as often happens when looking at individual regions &
stations, then a different picture emerges.

Using the Hurn (Bournemouth airport) data since 1957, updated for this
year's figures from the WeatherOnline site, the summer total (JJA)
this year will be ~260mm.

The wettest two summers in the Hurn record are (1) 1960 with 291 mm,
and (2) 1963 with 278 mm.

Martin.

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Martin Rowley
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I've just been looking at Summer (June/July/Aug) 2007 for Penzance.
It's been wet
(294.9mm) but 2004 was wetter (306.3mm) and 1997 was far wetter
(394.3mm)
Even last year (231.5mm) wasn't actually much drier.

Also 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002 were all cooler.

Graham
Penzance