On Jun 20, 11:17 pm, Robin Nicholson
> <
h...@hnewbury.uklinux.net> wrote:
> >Max temp today Wed 20.2C at 10:54 GMT.
>
> 19.7C at about the same time at Hilton
>
> R
You know it's a really, really bad summer when normal temperatures for
the time of year are considered remarkable!
The last 4 days, Sun 17th-Wed 20th, have seemed blissfully good here
in Southampton but in fact this was just a return to normal conditions
for mid June - the period was
not sunny dawn to dusk, it even rained Sunday evening, but unlike the
rest of this month (2 hrs sun/day, strong winds and temps barely above
15C are not normal for June, despite what the cynics about British
weather think!) it was close to average.
Depending on what it does next week (which seems a little up in the
air) June 2012 could well beat any of the summer months of the last 5
years for sheer awfulness here and we'd have to go back possibly to
1980 to find anything as bad. Even "classics" like June 1987 weren't
quite this bad for lack of sunshine, strong winds and frequency of
frontal rainfall.
Nick