Only 69.6 hours of sunshine up to and including today!

At this rate we will easily beat our record low of 90.2 hours set in 
1978, the only August to record below 100 hours (1969-2008)

Since Saturday we've recorded a massive 3.9 hours of sunshine!

If you add on the 94mm of rain and the mean temperature of 0.4c below 
average it becomes a pretty dire month to add to an already pretty dire 
summer!

Hopefully September will be better, it can't get any worse can it?

Weston Coyney weather station (North Staffordshire) 220 metres asl
-- 
Graham

> Only 69.6 hours of sunshine up to and including today!

I've only recorded slightly more than you with 70.3 hours (1st -21st), and I 
am supposedly on the 'sunny' south coast down here in Devon. Comparatively, 
it must surely have been worse (and wetter) here.

Rainfall running at 245% and mean temp -0.3°C of their LTAs.

Temperature went above 20C for only the 8th time this month with a max of 
21.3°C.

Many holidaymakers heading down on the A30 & A38 today for what is usually 
the busiest weekend/week of the year. I hope the weather improves for them 
as the campsites must be pretty muddy/waterlogged at the moment.

Though I suspect (as with July), with warmer days forecast next week, this 
month might actually end up with a mean temp above the LTA. Given the 
extremely wet and dull weather we have had, I find that remarkable.
________________
Nick.
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

"Graham"  wrote in message 
news:6TBSQKBmlIrIFwkZ@coyney.demon.co.uk...
> Only 69.6 hours of sunshine up to and including today!
>
> At this rate we will easily beat our record low of 90.2 hours set in 1978, 
> the only August to record below 100 hours (1969-2008)
>
> Since Saturday we've recorded a massive 3.9 hours of sunshine!
>
> If you add on the 94mm of rain and the mean temperature of 0.4c below 
> average it becomes a pretty dire month to add to an already pretty dire 
> summer!
>
> Hopefully September will be better, it can't get any worse can it?
>
> Weston Coyney weather station (North Staffordshire) 220 metres asl
> -- 
> Graham


How does this compare with 1912 - thats the dullest August on record. Is 
that record under threat now.

Up to last night:
   total  %     Press
    sun   of    anom
     hrs  months
          normal
   120.1   96   -7.8  Lerwick		
    76.2   57	     Kirkwall		
   108.5   82	     Stornoway  	
    74.6   53	     Kinloss		
    46.9   29  -10.2  Aberdeen Dyce	
    55.9   32	     Leuchars		
    47.8    	     Glasgow Bishopton
    67.8    	     Prestwick  	
    29.1   21  -11.4  Eskdalemuir	
    43.5    	     Edinburgh Gogarbank
    82.9   45	     Ronaldsway 	
    63.5    	     Woodford		
    79.4    	     Nottingham Wea Cen
    70.6    	     Church Fenton	
    83.3   43  -10.4  Waddington 	
    67.9    	     Leconfield 	
    66.6   35  -11.6  Valley		
    76.7   42  -11.2  Aberporth  	
    67.0    	     St Athan		
    70.1   41	     Shawbury		
    69.4    	     Coleshill  	
    64.0    	     Filton		
    86.4    	     Wittering  	
    85.1   41	     Wattisham  	
    65.2        -9.3  Camborne		
    81.7    	     Odiham		
    85.9    	     Charlwood  	
    76.4   38   -9.1  Heathrow		
    84.1   39   -8.4  Bournemouth Hurn	
    41.6   28  -12.4  Aldergrove 	
    68.5   49  -11.4  Valentia		
    86.5   54  -11.6  Cork Airport	
    65.5   48  -11.8  Shannon Airport	
    69.1    	     Casement Aerodrome
    55.7    	     Connaught Airport
    83.6   58  -11.8  Belmullet  	
    76.2   57  -11.6  Malin Head 	

The third column shows that MSL pressure anomaly so far
while the second gives the sunshine as a percentage of the monthly
mean over 31 days.

Roger

Graham wrote:
> Only 69.6 hours of sunshine up to and including today!
> 
> At this rate we will easily beat our record low of 90.2 hours set in 
> 1978, the only August to record below 100 hours (1969-2008)
> 
> Since Saturday we've recorded a massive 3.9 hours of sunshine!
> 
> If you add on the 94mm of rain and the mean temperature of 0.4c below 
> average it becomes a pretty dire month to add to an already pretty dire 
> summer!
> 
> Hopefully September will be better, it can't get any worse can it?
> 
> Weston Coyney weather station (North Staffordshire) 220 metres asl

Another terrible summer here in Aberdeen - August has been worse than
atrocious.

The sunshine I recorded for the first 3 weeks was a ridiculously poor
54.0 hours - less than the same period of both November 2007 (63.6hrs)
and February 2008 (82.8hrs). Rainfall 84mm. I thought it couldn't get
much worse than last week but this week has been beyond abysmal with
only 2.7 hours sun between Sunday and Thursday. Today was supposed to
be brighter but there's been 0.1 hour.

Yesterday was wretched with heavy rain and temperatures of only 10C
for the late afternoon and evening - one of the worst summer days I've
encountered. Part of the railway between Dundee and Aberdeen had to be
closed due to flooding.

Not only has it been cloudy, wet, cool and dull - it's been downright
dark and gloomy with levels of light similar to November or December.
Almost constant insufferable easterlies or northerlies for the whole
month. There has been just one sunny day - the 8th when it reached
only 16 degrees. The 2nd has been the only day to reach 20C - with
20.2C - and it hasn't reached the average of 18C for 11 days now.
Certainly the worst August so far since 1963.

I'm sick fed up of the number of lousy summers there's been since 1998
- a truly horrific run with this being the 9th out of 11 to record
below average sunshine. The 6th summer this decade along with 2000,
2001, 2002, 2004 and 2007 where all three months could reasonably be
described as poor. Even the terrible 50s and 60s weren't this
consistently awful and at least those decades produced proper
seasonable winters.

Woeful as this summer has been it's still a vast improvement on the
thoroughly execrable abomination that was 2007. Combined with August
2006 these last 7 summer months must surely rate along side August
1964 - August 1966 as the worst run on record for this area. The
amount of easterly winds has been nauseating.

I was reading some accounts in the local newspaper of the summer of
1922 and one description of that summers weather was "unspeakably
depressing". That doesn't come close to doing justice to the awfulness
of this August. It's up there with the most miserable of any month
that I've experienced.

Richard,
Aberdeen.

In article <c983a83f-85e6-447f-adb9-8900dcd24aee@
25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>, rslessorabdn@yahoo.co.uk says...
> Another terrible summer here in Aberdeen - August has been worse than
> atrocious.
> 

Typical. I managed to get sunburnt in Aberdeen in July (1st, IIRC).

On Aug 22, 6:30 pm, rslessora...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Another terrible summer here in Aberdeen - August has been worse than
> atrocious.
>
> The sunshine I recorded for the first 3 weeks was a ridiculously poor
> 54.0 hours - less than the same period of both November 2007 (63.6hrs)
> and February 2008 (82.8hrs). Rainfall 84mm. I thought it couldn't get
> much worse than last week but this week has been beyond abysmal with
> only 2.7 hours sun between Sunday and Thursday. Today was supposed to
> be brighter but there's been 0.1 hour.
>
> Yesterday was wretched with heavy rain and temperatures of only 10C
> for the late afternoon and evening - one of the worst summer days I've
> encountered. Part of the railway between Dundee and Aberdeen had to be
> closed due to flooding.
>
> Not only has it been cloudy, wet, cool and dull - it's been downright
> dark and gloomy with levels of light similar to November or December.
> Almost constant insufferable easterlies or northerlies for the whole
> month. There has been just one sunny day - the 8th when it reached
> only 16 degrees. The 2nd has been the only day to reach 20C - with
> 20.2C - and it hasn't reached the average of 18C for 11 days now.
> Certainly the worst August so far since 1963.
>
> I'm sick fed up of the number of lousy summers there's been since 1998
> - a truly horrific run with this being the 9th out of 11 to record
> below average sunshine. The 6th summer this decade along with 2000,
> 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2007 where all three months could reasonably be
> described as poor. Even the terrible 50s and 60s weren't this
> consistently awful and at least those decades produced proper
> seasonable winters.
>
> Woeful as this summer has been it's still a vast improvement on the
> thoroughly execrable abomination that was 2007. Combined with August
> 2006 these last 7 summer months must surely rate along side August
> 1964 - August 1966 as the worst run on record for this area. The
> amount of easterly winds has been nauseating.
>
> I was reading some accounts in the local newspaper of the summer of
> 1922 and one description of that summers weather was "unspeakably
> depressing". That doesn't come close to doing justice to the awfulness
> of this August. It's up there with the most miserable of any month
> that I've experienced.
>
> Richard,
> Aberdeen.

Now Richard, all that's lacking are the emoticons! Nice to hear from
you. I see you are still in need of a move to fairer climes!

Paul (SW Zephyr)