Re: Atrocious Again
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Very gloomy and murky, house lights on most of afternoon. Continuous rain
and drizzle, but heavy stuff has eased now.
Temperature 13.2C which is the highest so far today!
5.2 deg C below normal for time of year.
Ground saturated and grass squelchy.
Not good for the tourists who are camping :-)
Rainfall so far 17.8 mm (AWS)
Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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"Will Hand" wrote in message news:...
> Continuous heavy rain and drizzle up here on Dartmoor at 6.1 mm/h, now at
> 1240 temperature is +12.9C circa 5 degrees below normal. Very murky with
> hill fog higher up. Ground unusually saturated for time of year, no chance
> of a drought up here Nick, in fact the opposite. Lawn grass is very
> squelchy - again unusual for time of year. Bracken has even started to die
> back a bit and the whole place is taking on an autumnal look.
>
> Will
> --
>
> "Steve Willington" wrote in message
> news:74eff7f5-9e63-49f6-b07f-fc05ef36d579@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com...
> On Aug 16, 11:14 am, "Nick Gardner"
> wrote:
>> After previous heated posts regarding perceptions of this summer I can
>> definitely say that the weather is atrocious again today. I was becoming
>> worried though, after 7 hours of sunshine yesterday that we may have been
>> heading for a drought. Vastly relieved this morning to see the horizontal
>> drizzle interspersed with vertical heavy rain. Things are back to normal
>> for
>> what is turning out to be a very grotty August so far.
>>
>> The Beautiful Days music festival is soggily going on at nearby Escot
>> Park.
>> It turned into a cold mudfest last year and with the temperature
>> currently
>> bumping along at around 14°C, windy with intermittent heavy rain, this
>> year
>> is going to be no different. Many events in the South West have been
>> abandoned, some for the first time since they started.
>>
>> I take it back about the 'atrocious' June of this year. It was actually a
>> very dry month with a reasonably amount of sunshine, but still a
>> changeable
>> month weatherwise.
>>
>> Unless there is a big improvement in the weather, my warmest day so far
>> occurred on the 11th of May!
>>
>> Summers 2007 & 2008 (June 1st - Aug 15th)
>> Min Max Mean Rain Sun
>> 07 11.0C 20.3C 15.7C 261 mm 477 hours
>> 08 11.7C 20.6C 16.2C 215 mm 473 hours
>> ________________
>> Nick.
>> Otter Valley, Devon
>> 83 m amslhttp://www.ottervalley.co.uk
>
> Went to Escot on Thursday with the kids. The state of the ground, wet,
> muddy and generally horrible, was more reminiscent of December than
> August. Luckily it wasn't as cold as December...
>
> This August is already looking poorer than last, 69.2mm so far vs
> 59.2mm, with an average max of 19.9C so far vs 21.8C last year...
>
> Steve.
> www.rockbeareweather.co.uk
>
date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:01:12 +0100
author: Will Hand
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