On 2013-06-16 13:36:34 +0000, Graham Easterling said:

On Sunday, June 16, 2013 12:37:36 PM UTC+1, yttiw wrote:
Middle of June. Temperature 11C. Dull with steady rain. Nothing new again.


I think people now have unrealistic expectations. The SE certainly has
done badly over recent weeks, but if we take the 1st 14 days of June in
west Cornwall.

Average temp approx 1C below average (-1.1C Culdrose, -1.0C Penzance,
-0.7C Camborne, -0.3C up at Plymouth

Sunshine already 75-80% of the norm for the whole month. (76% at
Camborne). We had 200 hours of sun in May.

Rainfall approx 35% of the normal months total.

So in this part of the SW sunny, rather cool & rather dry (so far!)
would sum it up.

Roger's page http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/uksummary.html shows
just how cool the SE has been (see temp anomaly map)

Graham
Penzance

Sorry for the confusion, but I was really referring to "nothing new"
compared with the last few Junes, rather than the previous two weeks.
At the moment this summer seems to be following last year, but two
weeks late. In 2012 we had decent weather for a short while at the end
of May, then it all went downhill over the Jubliee weekend.

I just detected a similarity beginning to develop.