On 03/01/2013 16:50, ron button wrote:
"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
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http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/rel...her-statistics

Martin.

Remind me Martin ,how these averages are arrived at , cos reading some of
stats for stations like Stafford/Derbyshire they had an appalingly dull
summer even record breaking, so the quoted 99% shown for England must have a
hollow ring....unless of course the other seasons were remarkably high

RonB

.... Indeed Ron - same for us; using Hurn as a 'first guess' for a wider
area around the Poole Basin, we had ~60% of the LTA sunshine last summer
- truly grim.

This is the problem with focussing on 'national' datasets over a year
that are massaged onto uniform grids etc. I've already heard on the
local (BBC South) news that it's been the wettest year 'on record' for
the south (i.e. this part of England); nothing of the sort of course -
even using the 1910+ cut-off ... probably the third or fourth wettest in
around 150 years I'd say ... but why let the facts get in the way of a
good story eh?

Martin.




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