On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:40:55 -0700, nick150971 wrote:

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for a long consistently poor
mid/late summer period to not improve in early September has not
happened in any previous year that I recall.
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Nor me, though when Philip Eden mentioned how dull August 1912 was, I
couldn't resist looking up Trevor Harley's site to see what happened
later that year, and...

September: second-coldest of the century
October: wettest of the century; cold too
November: 9 hours [sic] sunshine in Manchester (smog)
December: Wet, particularly in the west

I hope we can do a *bit* better than that this time around!

http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~ta...12_weather.htm

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Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.