On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:30:33 -0700 (PDT), Bruce Messer
wrote:

I'm just doing some work on analysing blocking and spells of weather using the
Jenkinson Lamb Weather Type [LWT] data that you can download from the Climate
Research Unit [CRU] of the University of East Anglia [UEA], and came across what
looks like the longest anticyclonic spell of blocking weather across the British Isles
in the whole data set that started in 1871. According to the results from my early
beta application, the summer was anticyclonic for around 32 days from the 5th of
July to the 5th of August, a truly amazing spell of summer weather. The Monthly
Weather Reports for the month of July have a headline "Warm and sunny; apart
from thunderstorms". According to the report the MSLP anomaly for the month
was a massive +9.9 MB at Stornoway and +4.4 MB at Southampton. Sunshine for
England and Wales were at record levels of 146% of the 1921-1950 long-term
average, in Scotland that figure was 172% and Northern Ireland 184%.

https://xmetman.wordpress.com/2015/0...ummer-of-1955/

Thanks for the memory, I remember it from junior school holidays.
Marvellous weather, only beaten in my childhood memory by the
wonderful late and dry summer of 1959... though I think July 1955 was
warmer. Those two summers first aroused my early interest in
meteorology, something that was cemented in late December 1962 by
you-know-what!

--
Dave
Fareham (then of Greater Mancunia)