hillbilly

Addicks Fan 1981 Both 2007 and 2012 were much wetter but had much better Augusts,with 2007 being almost a good one while 2008 was poor the whole of July,all August and 3 weeks of September

LetItSnow! Being from a farming background we managed to make less than a quarter of out hay in June but when high Summer haymaking should have arrived we had 11 weeks of rubbish.when we got well into September with no improvement we almost had to abandon the grass and let the cows in.Then out of nowhere Summer finally arrived in the 3rd week of September.My memories of working on the farm right back to the early 70s we almost never had to make hay in September and on the odd occasion we did it was just for the last field,to get to September and still have most of the hay to get is unprecidented in my lifetime let alone the 3rd week.

Dry,cloudy and chilly,max 6 deg,min 2 deg

2007 or 2012.....erm,2008!

Some fog to start,mainly cloudy,max 7 deg,min 4 deg

Some fog to start clearing to leave a mainly sunny day,clouding later in afternoon,max 8 deg,min 1 deg

Dry with good sunny spells,max 11 deg,min 5 deg

A frosty start leaving a dry and sunny day,showers arriving late on ,max 9 deg,min -2 deg

Dry with sunny spells,max 8 deg,min 1 deg

Just had a look at the local met office stats and which would paint a dead heat between all of them but we all know stats dont paint a true picture.My memories of working on the farm are the same today as i remember with 1985 being the worst ,really struggled to make any hay and constantly had to get a second tractor to pull out the one that got stuck,shocking.The other three were similar overall with 1986 being cooler but i always thought 1988 was better than the others.

Rain and sleet arriving mid morning becoming drier,cold,max 5 deg,min 1 deg

Dry and cloudy,max 8 deg,min 5 deg

Mainly dry and cloudy with showers arriving later in the day,max 8 deg,min 3 deg

Mainly dry with a few light showers and drizzle,max 7 deg,min 2 deg

A frosty start leaving a dry day with good sunny spells,max 7 deg,min 1 deg

A foggy start clearing to leave some sunny spells,max 6 deg,min 0 deg

A frosty start leaving a dry day with good sunny spells,max 8 deg,min 0 deg

Showery throughout the day,cooler,max 7 deg,min 2 deg

Wettest period i can find here at the local met office[Bradford] is 10 months,June 1927- March 1928 averaging 109mm over the period. 10 month from September 1968 average 97mm 9 month from June 2019 8 month 1944-1945 8 month 1946-1947 but also has 11 out of 12 months in the same period 8 month 1960-61 8 months from June 2012 7 months from October 2015

Rain early in the day becoming dry with sunny spells,max 10deg,min 7 deg

Some showers overnight leaving a dry day with some sunny spelld,max 13 deg,min 9 deg

Misty with some light showers and drizzle scattered throughout the day,max 13 deg,min 6 deg

Mainly cloudy with showers and drizzle,max 12 deg,min 8 deg

Mainly dry after a damp start and an odd light shower,some sunny spells,mild,max 15 deg,min 11 deg

1989 really was a great summer but personally i would put 1984 ahead of it despite the statistics being slightly the opposite just how it felt at the time.Along with 1983 a trio of great summers.I would put both 1984 and 1989 better than 1990 with 1990 ranking alongside 1983.None of the trio of great 80s summers were bettered until 2018 except for 1995.The most distinct thing i remember was after almost 5 years of of wet or relatively poor weather from summer 1984 it suddenly switched in April 1989 to dry and the land that summer is something we hadnt seen since 1984.