Tideswell, Derbyshire - Saturday 31st May 2014
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0900z 29002kt 5000 BR 7St006 11.6/11.1 1025 RE-DZ
RMK: Brief sunny intervals early gave a total of 15 minutes
sunshine which already makes today the sunniest day since last
Monday! The cloud soon thickened and there was slight drizzle
0730z-0830z. That has now ceased and it's looking a bit brighter.
09-09z: Tx 14.1 (1605z) Tn 9.5 (0425z) RR trace
18-09z: Tg 8.4 00-24z: Sun nil

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

Tideswell, Derbyshire - Saturday 31st May 2014
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0900z 29002kt 5000 BR 7St006 11.6/11.1 1025 RE-DZ
RMK: Brief sunny intervals early gave a total of 15 minutes
sunshine which already makes today the sunniest day since last
Monday! The cloud soon thickened and there was slight drizzle
0730z-0830z. That has now ceased and it's looking a bit brighter.
09-09z: Tx 14.1 (1605z) Tn 9.5 (0425z) RR trace
18-09z: Tg 8.4 00-24z: Sun nil

1800z 30003kt 20km 1Cu018 7Sc030 14.4/10.2 1024
RMK: A mostly cloudy day with only a few sunny intervals during
the morning. Dry apart from the early drizzle. The last 9 days
of the month have produced only 4.5 hours of sunshine unless we
get a bit more this evening, which seems unlikely.
Max temp 16.5

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

RMK: A mostly cloudy day with only a few sunny intervals during
the morning. Dry apart from the early drizzle. The last 9 days
of the month have produced only 4.5 hours of sunshine unless we
get a bit more this evening, which seems unlikely.
Max temp 16.5

Same here Norman we'd had around 0.7 hours sunshine all day then a miracle
happened at around 17.30, the skies cleared to allow a fine evening.
Sun hours today a whopping 2.3 hours bringing the May total to 107.8 hours.
Only 1983 with 101.5 hours has been duller in the last 45 years.
Start of June looks a bit grim in these parts

Graham

On 31/05/2014 21:45, Graham wrote:
Sun hours today a whopping 2.3 hours bringing the May total to 107.8 hours.
Only 1983 with 101.5 hours has been duller in the last 45 years.
Start of June looks a bit grim in these parts

Sunshine a little below the average here too for May with 189 hours.

May 1983 might have been a dull and cold one but look at the summer that
followed. It seemed to be one of endless sunny days right through the
school holidays (I only have one memory from 1976, that of brown grass -
I was too young).

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Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk