On Aug 26, 11:33*am, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:

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.

Was probably slightly colder than that in the New Forest yesterday,
after the showery tendency cleared through. My own feeling was that it
was a pretty typical late Sep/early Oct day, aside from the fact that
it was still light at 8pm.

Nick