On 09/08/2017 09:05, Will Hand wrote:
On Tue, 8 Aug 2017 19:29:35 +0100
Nick Gardner wrote:

This August is turning out so far to be rather dire - cool, cloudy and wet.

1st - 8th:
Mean minimum = 12.2C
Mean maximum = 20.6C
Mean = 16.4C
Rain = 36 mm
Sunshine = 30 hours

It doesn't get much worse than the above!

The weather seems to have been in terminal decline since the 20th July.

On this date last August, the mean temperature was a rather better 18.3C
and there had been 52 hours of sunshine. The month ended up with 243
hours of sunshine and a drier than normal 37 mm of rain. Unless there's
a big change in the weather I cannot see this August coming close to
last years for sunshine, dryness and warmth.

It reminds me of the Augusts during the bad old summer days of 2007 to 2012.


Oh don't be such a drama queen, it has not been that bad. Been in tee-shirt and
shorts a lot of days

Yeah, but you're *always* in T-shirt & shorts

and the sun has been warm and there has been a lot of dry
weather. Just 35.7mm rain so far. Full month average in Haytor (2003-16) is
123mm. Sometimes I think people expect far too much of UK summers. If you want
persistent heat and sun move abroad.

It's perfectly OK to have a good moan about the weather relative to your
own average conditions rather then comparing to someone else's. You and
Nick might be geographically pretty close but a world away in terms of
climate. A very poor August for him might be average for you.


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Col

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