Summary for 2007

An exceptionally mild (and wet) winter preceded a warm and dry spring and
then a lousy, cool, wet and dull summer though August 'sort' of saved the
day. Then followed a very dry and settled autumn. No floods or anything out
of the ordinary rainfall wise. The complete absence of any settled, warm
weather from the 12th June until the 29th July was, depressingly, the only
notable weather feature of the summer. Though June did get off to a very
warm start and August ended with some hot and sunny weather the summer
overall was the worst I have ever known. Potatoes and tomatoes in the garden
and allotment were ravaged by blight, something which has not happened here
(according to the locals) in living memory.

Despite the poor summer the year had a mean temperature of 11.2C which is
the same as 2006. Sea surface temperatures in Lyme Bay did not get as high
as 2006 (21.1C) but still achieved a respectable 20.0C around the end of
August/early September.

Mean Max 15.9C
Mean Min 6.6C
Mean 11.2C

High Max 29.4C (25th Aug)
Low Min -4.8C (24th Nov)
Grass Min -5.9C (23rd Dec)

Rain Total 901.9 mm
Rain Days 0.2 mm 161 Days
Rain Days 1.0 mm 114 Days
Max 24 hrs 36.1 mm (27th May)

Air Frost 24 Days
Snow Falling 0 Days
Thunder Heard 14 Days
Hail 5 mm 2 Days
Hail 5 mm 0 Days
Fog @ 9am 2 Days

Total annual sunshine 1723 Hours*
Most sunshine in a day 14.9 Hours (31st July)
Sunless days 28 Days

Mean Soil Temperature @ 30 cm 11.6C
Mean Soil Temperature @ 100 cm 11.4C

Mean Wind 3.7 mph
Max Gust 42 mph (2nd Dec)

Cloud cover 49%
Mean RH @ 9am 88.5%
Rain Duration 0.2 mm/hour 359 Hours
Frost Duration 147.3 Hours

Mean Pressure 1016.7 mb
Max Pressure 1038.6 mb (3rd Feb)
Min Pressure 978.7 mb (12th Feb)

*Total annual sunshine amounts are likely to be slightly lower than actual
due to partial obstruction of sunlight to the sensor. This was rectified
from September onwards.
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Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk