Exceptional July in Brussels as elsewhere
 

July at the Brussels Uccle site of the RMI - the Belgian Met. Office.

See http://www.kmi.be/english/index.php?menu=Menu1_3_3 Monthly
summary

1st column - July 2006
2nd column - long-term average

Reference periods for long-term averages - temperatures 1833-1985;
rainfall 1833-1979; sunshine 1887-1988.

Mean max. temp 28.6°C 21.6°C
Mean min. temp. 17.3°C 13.1°C
Mean temp. 23.0°C 17.1°C

Rainfall 48.1 mm 74.3 mm
Rainfall days 8 17

Sunshine 308 hr 40 min 195 hr

July has been the warmest ever calendar month at Uccle in the record
going back to 1833. Mean maximum temperature SEVEN degrees above the
long-term average. Mean max., min. and overall mean temps all the
highest on record for July. Sunshine total only just over 5 hours
under the record 314 hours in July 1959.

Colin Youngs
Brussels