On Aug 26, 11:33*am, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:
"Hugh Newbury" wrote ...
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Ppn (standard gauge) 1.0mm last 24hrs

Ppn (standard gauge) 95.5mm this month
Ppn (AWS) 1.2mm last 24 hrs
Ppn (AWS) 79.4mm this month

Grey, damp, cool, blustery
www.evershot-weather.org

... so far (as at 1030Z), just 0.1 mm here (current system) from
sporadic light rain/drizzle - breezy, cloudy.

The Hurn rainfall for the month is now up to 50% of the all-month
average.

However, in case anyone is thinking that we must be enjoying a month
with decent temperatures, think again! The running mean-maximum
anomaly has yet to touch parity with the 1971-2000 long term average
for that station, currently -0.3degC. The overall mean will of course
be above average, thanks to the night minima anomaly.

A combination of lack of sustained sunshine (often fine starts have
clouded-out), and lower theoretical maxima due to the already
mentioned lower SSTs in the source region for so much of our weather
this summer; in fact I was thinking yesterday (a fine, largely sunny
day with maximum just 20.5°C, 1.3degC *below* the long term mean),
that it was turning out to be a nice spring!

Martin.


It doesn't seem to have been so bad for temperature just along the
coast in Southampton, most days since the 5th have been around 21 or
22C, so about average. But then again there have been virtually no
really warm days (just the 19th springs to mind) and perhaps 7 cooler
than average days (including probably today, surprising given all this
warm air supposedly moving round Bill!) so here too the day max could
be cooler than average. However the fact that almost all the average,
low 20s C days have been dry and bright, the lack of wettish days
(1st, 4th, 6th, 10th, a few showers yesterday, today and - looking
forward to the rest of the month - possibly Friday) has given the
perception of a qualitatively slightly-above-average month here.

Nick