Recorded a minimum last night of 17.2°C making it the highest minimum
temperature since September 6th 2006 (17.7C).

Minimum temperatures above 17°C happen very infrequently in this rural,
valley location but it is usually between now and mid-September that the
warmest nights of the year occur, probably due to the sea being at its
warmest.

The warmth of the nights this year is in contrast to 2007 when the whole
summer seemed to be dominated by cool/cold nights with very few (if any)
warm nights.

Monthly minimum temperatures for 2007/08:
Mean Low High
May 07 7.8°C 0.7°C 13.0°C
May 08 10.2°C 4.8°C 14.4°C

Jun 07 11.1°C 6.7°C 13.8°C
Jun 08 10.1°C 5.1°C 15.7°C

Jul 07 11.3°C 5.7°C 15.0°C
Jul 08 12.6°C 7.7°C 17.1°C

Aug 07 10.6°C 5.9°C 15.5°C
Aug 08 13.6°C 7.4°C 17.2°C

Sep 07 9.1°C 4.1°C 14.3°C

August 2007 was particularly cool at night, I suspect the high incidence of
cloudy nights this month have prevented night-time temperatures dropping.
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Nick.
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 at 12:26:44, Nick Gardner
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Recorded a minimum last night of 17.2°C making it the highest minimum
temperature since September 6th 2006 (17.7C).

My minima last night of 17.0C was the highest since 5/9/06.
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On 30 Aug, 12:26, "Nick Gardner"
wrote:
Recorded a minimum last night of 17.2°C making it the highest minimum
temperature since September 6th 2006 (17.7C).

This is from our website this morning Nick, with a reference to the
warmth of last night:

"Although rather wet and cloudy, this month will end with temperatures
around the average for our region, probably 0.2C above the 30-year
mean temperature for August, although temperatures by day have been
1.0C below normal.

Warm cloudy nights have made up the difference of course; last night
for example, was the warmest August night (min = 17.8C) for four years
in Coventry (19.5C minimum in 2004) - with records dating back to
1892, only 6 August months have had minimum overnight temperatures as
high as last night."

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk

Warm up here too Nick.
Min 13.7C.
Window wide open and I was still a bit too warm!

Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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"Nick Gardner" wrote in message
...
Recorded a minimum last night of 17.2°C making it the highest minimum
temperature since September 6th 2006 (17.7C).

Minimum temperatures above 17°C happen very infrequently in this rural,
valley location but it is usually between now and mid-September that the
warmest nights of the year occur, probably due to the sea being at its
warmest.

The warmth of the nights this year is in contrast to 2007 when the whole
summer seemed to be dominated by cool/cold nights with very few (if any)
warm nights.

Monthly minimum temperatures for 2007/08:
Mean Low High
May 07 7.8°C 0.7°C 13.0°C
May 08 10.2°C 4.8°C 14.4°C

Jun 07 11.1°C 6.7°C 13.8°C
Jun 08 10.1°C 5.1°C 15.7°C

Jul 07 11.3°C 5.7°C 15.0°C
Jul 08 12.6°C 7.7°C 17.1°C

Aug 07 10.6°C 5.9°C 15.5°C
Aug 08 13.6°C 7.4°C 17.2°C

Sep 07 9.1°C 4.1°C 14.3°C

August 2007 was particularly cool at night, I suspect the high incidence
of cloudy nights this month have prevented night-time temperatures
dropping.
________________
Nick.
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk