On May 14, 6:16*pm, Nick Gardner wrote:
On 14/05/2013 08:22, Adam Lea wrote:

If you could go back through the summer months within your memory and
select individual months (June, July and August) to put together a best
and worst summer ever, what would they be? In other words, what is the
best/worst June, best/worst July, best/worst August you can remember?

*From memory.....
Best:
June 2010, July 2006, August 2005.

Worst:
June 2012, July 2009, August 2008.

I remember June 1989, July 1995 & August 1995 as being good; June 1997,
July 1993 & August 2000 as being pretty bad but that is so long ago I
cannot be sure without actually looking at real data.

--
Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amslhttp://www.ottervalley.co.uk

What about the ideal year? Within my clear memory (80s onwards)
something like

January 1985
February 1986
March 2012
April 2011
May 1992
June 2006
July 1989
August 1985
September 1997
October 1995
November 1988
December 2010

would be ideal.

By contrast, the year from hell might be:

January 2008
February 1997
March 1989, or possibly 2013 (though if we have a good summer I might
appreciate the "meteorological interest" of this month in retrospect)
April 2012
May 2013, on current form - if not May 1983
June 2012
July 1988
August 2008
September 1993
October 2000
November 2000
December 2012

Several recent months there!!!

Nick