"Nick G" wrote in message ...
A very bright light has just appeared high up in the sky from behind a
cloud, it's so bright you can't look at it, and it feels warm. The neighbour
says it is called the sun but I haven't seen that thing in so long that I've
forgotten what it looks like.
Could you remind me? :-)

Is it really the sun. Well blow me down, miracles will never cease to amaze
me.


Ignoring the statistics, has this just been the dullest, most disappointing
summer so far.
Since 1993- this July has been IMO worse than 1998 or 2000. Those two
were cloudy with no hot days, but this one has had more rain, with
some aggressively cold weather which was lacking in those years too.
(To be fair, June this year was appreciably better than 1998's). I've
even missed all these storms.

Will August save the day? Any guesses?
Guesses from forecasts: Every day of the last fortnight I've read
'Summer will start tomorrow' or similar, then I wake up to- cloudy,
cool weather. (Or is that summer?)

What I've noticed most about 2004 so far is 1) Changeability- rarely
have we had two consecutive sunny days, and rarely two with the same
temperature or even weather type. It's been windy most of the time,
but with only 1 real gale (March 20).
and 2) Lack of temperature extremes. Though Jan-Mar weren't as mild as
in some 90s years(and had much more snow), the temp. never dipped more
than a touch below freezing- due to 1). In return, we've had only a
handful of warm and sunny days, and very rarely a run of them. Hardly
any 27+ temps have been recorded, except on a few days in favoured
locations. (hello southeasterners!).
And I haven't any figures to hand, but Feb/Mar 2003 seemed to have had
more sunshine than June/July 04.

Come on August!! :-[)