"Will Hand" wrote in message
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"Col" wrote in message
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But surely that is covering all bases?
Low pressure giving a wet summer, high pressure giving a dry summer
or a mixture of the two?

Not really Col. It could be a zonal summer, i.e. changeable with at most 3
fine days on the run like the 1960s. It all depends where the block sits.
Progressive blocking would give long dry spells in the south, interspersed
with weak, forward sloping cold fronts. Obviously wetter further north.
But who knows? I don't.

Well to me 'blocked' means high pressure on or close to the UK, keeping
Atlantic fronts at bay. Surely if we take Europe as a whole there is pretty
much always going to be blocking in one place or another.
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl