On Aug 1, 8:07 am, Dawlish wrote:
On Jul 31, 7:50 am, Paul Hyett wrote:



On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 at 10:47:54, Dawlish wrote in
uk.sci.weather :

No sign of any cooler nights, though.

Not that many signs of cooler days either, with the slightly warmer
06z and the warmer still 12z. Straws tightly clutched!

Well, low 20's is surely cooler than mid-high 20's...

I find warm nights very enervating through lack of sleep, something you
can't make up for during the day - unless the boss is out of the
office...
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Pretty awful gfs and ECM again, this morning, after some warmer (but
not settled) weather early next week. Still inconsistency at T240+,
but the straws are a lot more difficult to find today. That looks as
if it could be a cool washout to mid-Aug after next Wednesday. That
gets a yeuch! It would need a few nore runs before it would be written
into a forecast by me though.

Paul

Let's hope not. I was hoping this would be a typical 1998-2004 even
year, but the runs today suggest the worst pair of summers for many
years overall for lack of warm weather, possibly worse even than the
1992/93 pair - both those summers had more settled spells than the
current one. I also see the mean temps in southern England in July
were (slightly) below the 1971-00 normal - why, why, why do July and
August (where below average temperatures destroy the aesthetic appeal
of the season completely, unlike the autumn, winter and spring) have
the highest tendency for below average temperatures in recent years?

Nick