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Reasonable storm clearing, one C-G pretty close and some heavy rain.
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Very distant faint thunder to W'ly
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22 hours ago, Squally77 said:
I would want to experience an August like 1912 just for the novelty factor. The closest I've come in my lifetime to that is August 1986, when I was 8 going on 9.
There are other parallels between the Augusts of 1912 and 1986.
Apart from both being so poor, the Norfolk floods giving up to 8 inches rainfall in part of Norfolk occurred at the same time in August 1912 as did ex-tropical storm 'Charlie' giving its trouble in August 1986.
The Septembers of both years produced welcome droughts but they were both still very cool.
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10 hours ago, Shaunado said:
Woke up to thunder and torrential rain, not sure what time for my notes recording thunder days due to ill health: was it before or after midnight here in mid Kent... or both?
At Egerton, I would have thought that the bulk of the thundery activity if not its entirety occurred between midnight and 1am BST though other observers nearby may know better.
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It has definitely quietened down now, both lightning and rain.
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2 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:
So might be more to come here then.
Possibly, but I would have thought much less if you do get any more.
Torrential rain has eased here.
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Rain torrential again, distant thunder in more S'ly direction.
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Storm more in Ely direction, rain much lighter
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Torrential rain with fairly frequent lightning.
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Torrential rain with fairly frequent lightning.
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Thunder has arrived, but rain not very heavy yet.
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Thunder has arrived, but rain not heavy yet.
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Started raining here too, but no storm yet.
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Don't know what the chances are of much if any thundery activity at Hamstreet, SW of Ashford. Been here for over a month now and still no thunder heard or lightning seen yet.
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I was living at Shinfield near Reading at the time. At 10am on Sunday 10th August I attended a church service held outside on the vicarage lawn. We had to sit in the shade as it was such an oppressive heat which I cannot recall experiencing in the UK before or since.
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14 hours ago, Weather-history said:
Overall, summer 1973 wasn't too bad (Manchester Summer Index of 234). There was a short hot spell mid month where Southampton recorded 32.1°C
Evening Standard
Mirror
Liverpool Daily Post
Daily Telegraph
Derby
Birmingham
Cambridge
1973 was my first summer working in the Met Office, at Stansted Airport. It may well be the best summer between 1959 and 1976.
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18 minutes ago, baddie said:
More so an Austrailian Style Christmas, where its summer there
We stayed with my brother-in-law in Canberra over Christmas 2002. Christmas day there had a fair amount of cloud and was certainly not very warm. Around 5pm on Boxing day, we went for a walk and it was actually quite cool and cloudy.
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6 hours ago, IcySpicy said:
Sadly this is true and just a reality of living in N Europe, even the best summers are gonna have a dull and cold week or two. And "typical" summers are more like one bad month and two decent ones. But I think this year the problem is:
1) The bad timing of the poor weather ( if early June or late August was poor,most people wouldn't perceive it as so bad)
2) The contrast between the good June and poor July. Most other truly poor summers were already bad in June. It's rare for a summer to start so good and have all the right synoptic patterns and background signals for a hot summer and then crash and burn so badly. It almost feels like one of those airplane crash investigations lol, trying to find all the small factors, which added up to cause this disaster.
3) The lack of warm sunny days between the poor weather. Even in poor summers there usually are breaks of finer weather but this year every single day above 21C has been accompanied by wind and cloud and rain at some point in the day (and actually we haven't had any cooler sunny days either, it's just endless cloudy muck)
Regarding point 2, this summer reminds me of 1960. After the outstandingly good summer of 1959, June 1960 was good, but to use your expression, it 'crashed and burned badly' for July and August, and ended up a poor summer.
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5 minutes ago, Metwatch said:
An October 1920, 1921 or 1922 would do me nicely, especially this year. 1920 for the sunshine amounts, 1921 for warmth or 1922 for dryness. 1969 also looked quite good.
October 1969 was very dry and warm indeed.
5 minutes ago, Metwatch said:An October 1920, 1921 or 1922 would do me nicely, especially this year. 1920 for the sunshine amounts, 1921 for warmth or 1922 for dryness. 1969 also looked quite good.
October 1969 was very dry and warm indeed.
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23 hours ago, A Face like Thunder said:
57 years ago today, a momentous event took place in London as England won the football World Cup for the first and only time. The tournament took place between 11th and 30th July 1966 and the weather was mediocre throughout, bar 23rd July when the infamous England v Argentina game was played at Wembley in blazing sunshine. A parallel could be perhaps be drawn with the weather in July 2023, and if so, take heart, my family went on holiday to the South Coast in mid-August for 2 weeks and the weather was perfect throughout. I don't think we've yet seen the last of summer 2023!
Living in Essex, 1966 was earliest summer that I remember in some detail. After a disappointing July and early August, the second half of August was much better with a fine sunny spell for perhaps a week and pretty good weather in September to follow.
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On 30/07/2023 at 01:07, Summer of 95 said:
Can anyone on here remember July 1965? That seems to have been an absolute disaster of a summer month around these parts- Shawbury had a mean max of 17.4C, 119mm of rain and 104 hours of sunshine. Not as dull as 2010 or as wet as 2007, 2012 and potentially 2023, but that combination of cold, wet and dull surpasses any July, including 1988 (which had a very poor 17.8 C, 102mm- less than 2023, and a surprising 154 hours, nearly twice what 2010 had). I don't think I've seen it mentioned in Historic Weather or anywhere else on here. Was it as bad across the country?
As a boy in 1965, I remember that summer as just another of the poor summers which happened in the 1960s, but when I looked at Cardington's records, I could see what a dreadful month July of that year was, very likely the coolest, dullest and wettest on record there.
Mean Max: 18.5 deg C, highest max 22.4 deg C on 19th (both probable records).
Sunshine: 93.0 hours (very likely the only summer month there with less than 100 hours of sunshine).
Rainfall: 108.1 mm.
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On 28/07/2023 at 22:40, Metwatch said:
This sums up this July I reckon.
I remember July 1988. It was really very poor indeed.
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52 minutes ago, Eagle Eye said:
Really is a small world. A few people might even have known him. The chairman of 50 odd years still plays for us occasionally so I imagine he knew him right from the start till the end of when he played for us.
He is Nick McNaughton.
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9 hours ago, Eagle Eye said:
I actually play cricket in Great Chart. Small world I guess.
So sorry to hear about your wife's oldest brother.
Heather's youngest brother used to lay cricket for Great Chart many years ago. He has since emigrated to Australia.
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Reasonable storm clearing, one C-G pretty close and some heavy rain.