On Aug 26, 10:23*pm, wrote:
To date, my August sunshine total has still to break 100 hours. Here's
the sunshine ranking of the months of 2008 to date, with August being
the first 26 days only:

204.8 h - June
186.2 h - May
184.7 h - July
157.3 h - April
145.0 h - February
107.1 h - March
*96.6 h - August (to 26th incl)
*73.7 h - January

So August has romped past January's total, still has some way to go to
reach March, and with 5 days to go, needs to average just under 10 h
daily even to equal February's total!

The August low record, 117 hours in 1968 (70 years' records for
Reading area), is looking vulnerable - needs just over 4 h per day to
make that.

Total 2008 to date 1155 h: in 2003 to end-August we'd had 1406 h, a
difference of just over an hour per day - every day.

--
Stephen Burt
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire

I don't keep sunshine records but I'm sure it has been just as
dull here, which may account for the fact that the mean daily range so
far this month (6.3 degC) has been quite easily the lowest for August
in my 26-yr record. Mean max is 19.3° and min 13.0°.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.