The Gloomiest August Bank Holiday I can seem to remember? There probably were worse but none I can recall.

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Lawrence Jenkins writes
The Gloomiest August Bank Holiday I can seem to remember? There
probably were worse but none I can recall.

I can remember at least one from twenty-plus years ago when an
ex-hurricane arrived, bringing very heavy rain.
--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones

On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 10:45:31 AM UTC+1, John Hall wrote:
In message ,
Lawrence Jenkins writes
The Gloomiest August Bank Holiday I can seem to remember? There
probably were worse but none I can recall.

I can remember at least one from twenty-plus years ago when an
ex-hurricane arrived, bringing very heavy rain.
--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones

Hurricane Charley, 1986?

Col

On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 10:31:55 AM UTC+1, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
The Gloomiest August Bank Holiday I can seem to remember? There probably were worse but none I can recall.

A day to relive your youth holidaying in Cornwall
http://www.minack.com/a-living-theatre/webcams/

Slightly Smug
Penzance

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 03:26:03 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:

On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 10:45:31 AM UTC+1, John Hall wrote:
In message ,
Lawrence Jenkins writes
The Gloomiest August Bank Holiday I can seem to remember? There
probably were worse but none I can recall.

I can remember at least one from twenty-plus years ago when an
ex-hurricane arrived, bringing very heavy rain.
--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P
Jones

Hurricane Charley, 1986?

Col

1968 was a crap Summer in the SE but I've no memory of what the Bank
Holiday was like. I see that year, the Bank Holiday Monday was 2nd
September and the situation that day looks a bit better than today for
the SE but, with a depression just to the west of Ireland, I doubt it
was a great day for the country as a whole.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks. [Retd meteorologist/programmer]
http://www.scarlet-jade.com/
I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.
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On 31/08/2015 11:53, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 03:26:03 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:

On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 10:45:31 AM UTC+1, John Hall wrote:
In message ,
Lawrence Jenkins writes
The Gloomiest August Bank Holiday I can seem to remember? There
probably were worse but none I can recall.

I can remember at least one from twenty-plus years ago when an
ex-hurricane arrived, bringing very heavy rain.
--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P
Jones

Hurricane Charley, 1986?

Col

1968 was a crap Summer in the SE but I've no memory of what the Bank
Holiday was like. I see that year, the Bank Holiday Monday was 2nd
September and the situation that day looks a bit better than today for
the SE but, with a depression just to the west of Ireland, I doubt it
was a great day for the country as a whole.


We had some of the worse flooding I can remember in September 1968 here
in Southend-on-Sea.

--
Keith (Southend)
"Weather Home & Abroad"
http://www.southendweather.net
Twitter:@LawnscienceEssx

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:53:37 +0100
Graham P Davis wrote:

1968 was a crap Summer in the SE


Pressure anomaly for July has a high just south of Iceland of +12hPa
with a straight NE'y over the UK.
August had high of +6hPa over the Faeroes. UK was still under a NE'ly,
anticyclonic in NW but cyclonic in SE.
In September, the high had shifted NE to near Bear I. and there was a
low of -8hPa due W of Ireland and S of Iceland. A trough from that
extended E across Wales and E Anglia.

Got the data from
http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/mapro...7%3A77.20%3Abb

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks. [Retd meteorologist/programmer]
http://www.scarlet-jade.com/
I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.
Posted with Claws: http://www.claws-mail.org/

On 31/08/2015 11:48, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 10:31:55 AM UTC+1, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
The Gloomiest August Bank Holiday I can seem to remember? There probably were worse but none I can recall.

A day to relive your youth holidaying in Cornwall
http://www.minack.com/a-living-theatre/webcams/

Slightly Smug
Penzance

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Yes that sunny patch after the rain is spreading East - should be here
by nightfall! People we know from round here have returned early from
camping on Bodmin Moor saying it's been so bad down there this past
week:-( Having said that it has been much more pleasant than expected
for my daughter's family in Christchurch who seem to have dodged most of
the rain and it was surprisingly warm apparently.
Dave, S.Essex

On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 12:39:13 PM UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote:
On 31/08/2015 11:48, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 10:31:55 AM UTC+1, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
The Gloomiest August Bank Holiday I can seem to remember? There probably were worse but none I can recall.

A day to relive your youth holidaying in Cornwall
http://www.minack.com/a-living-theatre/webcams/

Slightly Smug
Penzance

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Yes that sunny patch after the rain is spreading East - should be here
by nightfall! People we know from round here have returned early from
camping on Bodmin Moor saying it's been so bad down there this past
week:-( Having said that it has been much more pleasant than expected
for my daughter's family in Christchurch who seem to have dodged most of
the rain and it was surprisingly warm apparently.
Dave, S.Essex

I think it takes a certain type of person to go camping on Bodmin Moor!

Not too bad right on the coast last week, as you can see http://www.sennen-cove.com/imaug15.htm Though temperatures were generally disappointing.

There's no picture of yesterdays depressing weather. Nor Saturday, which was bright & still with sunny intervals.

Graham
Penzance

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On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 10:45:31 AM UTC+1, John Hall wrote:
In message ,
Lawrence Jenkins writes
The Gloomiest August Bank Holiday I can seem to remember? There
probably were worse but none I can recall.

I can remember at least one from twenty-plus years ago when an
ex-hurricane arrived, bringing very heavy rain.

Hurricane Charley, 1986?

Col

I think that rings a bell.
--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones