A very dry and warm month. Although the month's rainfall total was 30% of normal, 95% of that total fell in the final 5 days of the month. There was no thunder heard during the month. Storm Floris dealt a glancing blow on the 4th with gusts to 34 knots.
Summer overall was dry and warm - mean maximum was 22.9 (+2.3), mean minimum 12.3 (+1.6), with an overall mean temperature of 17.6 (+2.0). Rain fall at 104.3 mm was only 58% of average.
Anomalies (in brackets) refer to the estimated 1991-2020 averages.
Mean max: 23.2 (+2.2)
Mean min: 12.2 (+1.0)
Mean temp: 17.7 (+1.6)
Mean 30cm earth temp: 18.4
Highest max: 31.4 (12th)
Lowest max: 17.2 (20th)
Lowest min: 6.7 (22nd)
Highest min: 15.3 (26th)
Lowest grass min: 4.7 (22nd)
Air frosts: 0 ( 0)
Air frost hours: 0.0
Ground frosts: 0 ( 0)
Days with max 30.0 to 34.9: 1
Days with max 25.0 to 29.9: 8
Days with max 20.0 to 24.9: 15
Days with max 15.0 to 19.9: 7
Days with min 15.0 to 19.9: 4
Days with min 10.0 to 14.9: 22
Days with min 5.0 to 9.9: 5
Total rainfall: 19.6 mm ( 30%)
Wettest day: 6.2 mm (27th)
Rain days (0.2 mm or more): 7 (-6)
Wet days (1.0 mm or more): 4 (-6)
Days >= 10mm: 0 (-2)
Days >= 20mm: 0
Days with snow/sleet falling: 0
Days with 50%+ snow cover at 09z: 0 ( 0)
Deepest at 0900z 0 cm (n/a)
Days with thunder heard: 0
Days with hail: 0
Days with fog at 0900z: 0
Highest 10-min mean wind: 20 kn ( 4th)
Max gust: 34 kn ( 4th)
Days with gale: 0
Highest wind run: 265.7 nm ( 4th)
Wind direction at 0900z: N: 3; NE: 2; E: 3; SE: 0; S: 4; SW: 4; W: 11; NW: 2; Calm: 2
Maximum pressure: 1029.1 (16th)
Minimum pressure: 993.8 (29th)