It’s been a very poor August weather wise so far but I think it saved the worst for Bank Holiday Monday. It turned out to be a very dull cool day with drizzle or light spells of rain all day followed by some heavier rainfall late on into the evening.
With more rain in the early hours of Tuesday morning bringing the monthly total up to 95.2mm it’s made August 2014 the wettest month of the year and it’s the wettest August of the five years I've been keeping records.
Bank Holiday Monday’s temperature never really managed much above 13°C and it was even cooler for most of the morning. The result is that the average monthly temperature has now fallen to 15.1°C, the coolest I've recorded, and which I think from Met Office records would make it the coldest August since 1993 which had an average temperature of 14.6°C.
Unless we have some exceptionally cold days, which aren’t in the forecast, I don’t think the average will fall to that 1993 temperature.
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So I'm guessing summer is over then..?
ReplyDeleteHaven't given up hope just yet. September could be good. We managed 28°C at the end of September and into October in 2011 so we might get some nice warm days next month.
DeleteI can't believe that I've even had my heating on, it's been so cold. We ventured in to North Yorkshire yesterday as we saw the forecast was better there. The drizzle did catch up with us eventually but we managed to avoid it for most of the day.
ReplyDeleteWe've had the heating on too. Didn't venture outside at all on Monday but this afternoon (Tuesday) has been very nice after a dull morning.
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