It's been quite reasonable for an "8" year here so far, 4th-20th July
being pretty poor with a lot of cool windy weather (and spoiling my
wedding/honeymoon which I guess exacerbates it's effect!) and a fair bit
of cool windy weather in June as well.

I don't think this summer so far has been too bad really. June was dry,
sunny and the mean was slightly above the LTA. This July has redeemed itself
after the very wet and cool period of the 8th - 12th with it being quite dry
and reasonably sunny since, and very warm from the 22nd.

The July mean temperature is now at the LTA of 16.8°C and sunshine levels
have recovered somewhat to 186 hours. This is a bit of an improvement on
July 2007 which had a mean temperature of 15.7°C and 181 hours of sunshine
for the whole month.

June 1st - July 29th
Min Max Mean Rain Sun
2007 11.4C 19.7C 15.5C 223 mm 313 hours
2008 11.2C 20.8C 16.0C 128 mm 419 hours

Last summer (up to this date) was colder, wetter and duller.
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Nick.
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk