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It is quite common that CET values can stir up quite a debate, mainly due to the fact that these sort of statistics can be viewed at any angle in any different light. The discussion here is whats more remarkable, the fact that a month with such synopotics (i read that word so many times yet am never sure of the spelling!) associated with below average temps can produce a month with more or less average figures, or the 3.6c drop in CET from July to August. To me that was the biggest shock of the summer, but such a drastic change in temperature between months is all apart of the changing weather and temperature. The fact that we got a average month with "cold" synopotics (sp?) is not a suprise either when this rather feels like a common occurance in the rare event that a month is "average" temperature wise. WBSH

Weather: A glouriously sunny morning and early afternoon has since clouded up. Very warm. Temperature: 24.7c Wind: SSW 4.6mph Pressure: 1022.9hPa Humidity: 58% Dewpoint: 15.8c Todays Max: 25.1c 15:44 Todays Min: 15.2c 06:43 Sunset: 19:37

Weather: A damp, overcast breezy night, but quite warm. Temperature: 18c (64f) Wind: WSW 5.8mph Maximum Gust Today: SSW 28.2mph 16:08 Windchill 17.3c Pressure: 1006.2 hPa Humidity: 89% Dew-point: 16.2c Rainfall today 0.5mm

We have our yearly crop of plums out now, we rarely eat them these days their picked more for "other people". I've got some piccies anyway

Thanks for pointing that out Mr.Data, I will be watching WBSH

I'm certainly with what you are saying TWS, thinking about what can make people decide to stay north rather than move south would help the imbalance and thus reduce the percieved housing demands here. Also I think urban re-development should be a factor well worth considering everywhere in the country. WBSH

Yes, its a sad fact that a lot of individual issues and needs are seen wrongly in my view more important than our natural landscape. Like down here in the SE they are apparently proposing 500,000 more new "homes" (a lot on greenbelt and AONB I suspect). I know theres a population increase but why exactly the government feel the need to take such drastic and crass measures I do not know. I think much more effort should be done to preserve our natural beauty sites... at one stage parakeets were living in London. WBSH

Weather: Wet, windy and very overcast Temperature: 17.2c Wind: S'ly 15mph Pressure: 1008.4 hPa Humidity: 83% Dew-point: 14.3c Maximum Gust Today: S'ly 20.3mph 12:49 Sunset: 19:42 WBSH

And so a miserable, angry thread about yet another media mis-quotation of the weather suddenly turns much brighter at a mention of the Mr.Crazysnowfan... what can't he do eh! WBSH

Weather: Clear, warm with a light breeze Temperature: 19c (66f) Wind: SSW 5.8mph Pressure: 1018.8hPa Humidity: 67% Todays Max: 22.1c Todays Min: 15.4c Dewpoint: 12.6c Sunset: 19:46 WBSH

A sandwich - (if you count late May as Summer, I dont, but it fits the "sandwich "description if I do for this summer! ) Some terrific downpours when we were approaching summer followed by two months of hot, mainly sunny and very dry weather. Got almost a bit too much, which was whilst all of the rain and cooler weather in August was a relief, it was a suprise as well. WBSH

It’s 20:30pm and there is only faint twilight in between the clouds. The sun went down nearly three quarters of an hour ago. It will be (meteorically) autumn in two days, which I think is great! Although I don’t think we can properly class it as autumn, until, we experience those first clear chilly evenings where the sun is merely a faint red glow on your face when once it was a great tower above you, and you can smell the burning and the first real possibility of a frost. I remember last autumn, well more (very) late autumn I was with my college group and we were doing hardwood cuttings on trees. The ground was carpeted in leaves and although it was afternoon the sun was setting behind the trees and was gone by the time the lesson had finished. It’s one of the great advantages of working outdoors.

Weather: Mainly bright and breezy Temperature: 18c (64f) Wind: NW 8.1mph Pressure: 1008.1 hPa Humidity: 53% Dew-point: 8.4c Max gust today: NW 23.4 13:43 Real feel: 16.8c Sunset: 19:51 WBSH

Weather: Just had the most amazing torrential downpour with hail, thunder and lightening, now the sun has come out. Temperature: 14.9c Wind: WNW 4.6mph Pressure: 1007.2hPa Humidity: 78% Dew-point: 11.7c Maximum Gust Today: NNW 24.8mph 11:57 Sunset: 19:53 WBSH

Weather: A mostly bright morning with scattered clouds Wind: WNW 6.9mph Temperature: 17c (63f) Dew-point: 13.1c Pressure: 1013.2hPa Humidity: 78% Sunset: 19:55 WBSH

I’m probably not helping myself that I am using a computer right now but I want to write! My head feels a little “achy”, which is not really a surprise considering how much I have been using my laptop over the past month or two. I’ve decided to do a bit of research on sexual reproduction of plants! It appears the male gamete (in the sex cell) is pollen and the female gamete is the egg cell. The joining of these (fertilisation) makes a Zygote… but I don’t know what a Zygote is! And then this zygote grows into an embryo. A result of sexual reproduction is that the ovary turns into a fruit and an ovule turns into a seed. Fascinating stuff, I need to now go and find out what a Zygote is … I’m going to be lazy here and copy n’ paste from Wikipedia. It’s a stub anyway so it’s not that much ... “A zygote is a cell that is the result of fertilization. That is, two haploid cells—usually (but not always) an ovum from a female and a sperm cell from a male—merge into a single diploid cell called the zygote (or zygocyte)”

Yup, grass has just turned green and lush now around my way! I've been taking a few pics of my lawn incidently (sad I know!) and it was less than two weeks ago that it was scorched... amazing contrast! WBSH