Hi, All,

Here's a record this sun lover never thought possible. Copley has just
passed an unprecedented 300 hours sun in just one month! Just 10.3mm
rain so far (but with heavy showers expected tomorrow) and a screen
mean of 17.7C, warmest of any month in this area since at least 1847.

Now that's my idea of perfect weather!

Full July update on Tuesday.

Best wishes,
Ken
Copley, 253metres asl, nr Barnard Castle, County Durham
http://copley.mysite.orange.co.uk

"Ken Cook" wrote :

Here's a record this sun lover never thought possible. Copley has just
passed an unprecedented 300 hours sun in just one month! Just 10.3mm
rain so far (but with heavy showers expected tomorrow) and a screen
mean of 17.7C, warmest of any month in this area since at least 1847.

Congratulations, Ken! You're way ahead of the Channel Islands, the
West Country, on a par with London, but - as you might expect -
behind a string of resorts from Margate to Weymouth.

I am right in that you still use a CS recorder?

Philip

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Hi, All,

Here's a record this sun lover never thought possible. Copley has just
passed an unprecedented 300 hours sun in just one month! Just 10.3mm
rain so far (but with heavy showers expected tomorrow) and a screen
mean of 17.7C, warmest of any month in this area since at least 1847.

Now that's my idea of perfect weather!

Full July update on Tuesday.

Best wishes,
Ken
Well done Ken!

I passed my record total of 266.6 (August 1995) a few days ago and fast
approaching 300 hours. I use the R&D sunshine sensor.
Records here started in 1960!

Already passed my record mean of 18.5c (July 1983), up to 19.4c as of
July 29th.

Rainfall 26.5mm as of 29th July, and with only 20.4mm in June it looks
like it could be driest summer since 1976.

Despite forecast of heavy showers we've had very little rain today, in
fact less than 5mm in the last 22 days!

Weston Coyney weather station (North Staffordshire) 220 metres asl
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Graham

On 30 Jul 2006 10:01:06 -0700, Ken Cook wrote:

Here's a record this sun lover never thought possible. Copley has just
passed an unprecedented 300 hours sun in just one month!

Hows that compare to the theorectical maximum?

Just 10.3mm rain so far (but with heavy showers expected tomorrow)

We've had a few heavy showers today, 17mm clicked up.

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

Dave Liquorice wrote:
On 30 Jul 2006 10:01:06 -0700, Ken Cook wrote:

Here's a record this sun lover never thought possible. Copley has just
passed an unprecedented 300 hours sun in just one month!

Hows that compare to the theorectical maximum?

Just 10.3mm rain so far (but with heavy showers expected tomorrow)

We've had a few heavy showers today, 17mm clicked up.

Hi, Dave,

I recorded 16.1hr on the middle day of the month which I assume (in a
simple way) would give a theoretical max of 31 x 16.1 = 499.1 hours.
Thus my final total of 305.6hr is roughly 61% of that total. All
sunshine recorded by an R&D sensor btw.

Just 4mm today, that's the rain shadow again. Only 14mm for the whole
month!

Best wishes,
Ken
Copley, nr Barnard Castle, County Durham
http://copley.mysite.orange.co.uk

On 31 Jul 2006 13:36:57 -0700, Ken Cook wrote:

I recorded 16.1hr on the middle day of the month which I assume (in a
simple way) would give a theoretical max of 31 x 16.1 = 499.1 hours.
Thus my final total of 305.6hr is roughly 61% of that total. All
sunshine recorded by an R&D sensor btw.

Not as high as I'd imagined but then there where a few wet, thus cloudy,
days earlier in the month.

Just 4mm today, that's the rain shadow again. Only 14mm for the whole
month!

It peed it down again just after 2100, best part of another 10mm in 40 or
so minutes giving us 27mm today between the first click at 0845 and the
last at 2250. The wind has dropped from the F4 of most of the day with
gusts to 25mph+ and the temp a pleasant 12C.

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail