Summer of 95

Not until midnight, no- bear in mind I am talking calendar days (although 0900-0900 Sun/Mon didnt manage it either). Not sure what Shawbury will show, last Monday might have been dry there as we were plagued by localised showers in a very narrow band. About 3 or 4 days would only show 0 point something mm as all we got was drizzle. It's certainly the longest run I can remember, we have had months with 25+ days but I can't remember more than 20 or so in a row before.

Still raining, got heavier last hour, is that front stuck? No dry day for Tuesday either, 34 days and counting...

Just checked out that place Kununurra; longitude 129 east- should be on UTC+9; +9:30 which is NT time would work fine as well. Would be 6:14 and 19:03 on that which sounds about right for 15S this time of year: on Perth time (+ sunset is earlier right now than some places north of the equator. In Australia it seems that the need to coincide time zone boundaries with state ones, and give each state one zone, has taken precedence over ensuring sensible daylight hours. Really it's wide enough to have 4 or 5 separate zones, standard time should probably be UTC+11 around that bulge between Brisbane and Sydney.

He doesn't need to go all the way to England to see what light evenings are; looking at those Australian sunset times, Sydney would do :lol: Looking into it further, it seems to be something of a sore point in that area, there's even a political party called "Daylight saving for Southeast Queensland"!

Serious waste of daylight in southern Western Australia, and the Brisbane area which has a double whammy effect; it's not only well outside the tropics but also east of the UT+10 meridian. Sunrise 04:49 sunset 18:13 in Brisbane today, that could easily be advanced by 2 hours.

Maybe they are evolving into evergreens Seriously though, oaks often seem to keep them late, sometimes into December- and Autumns have generally got less stormy since the early 2000s. This year though there do seem to be an unusual number still mostly green.

Heavy rain now, was looking so good for a frost earlier and this rubbish turns up! When will we see a dry day????

1988 was a pretty good November: very sunny, frosty first half and then that snowfall on the 20th. That was the only decent snowfall I remember between Jan 1987 and Dec 1990, that November was the coldest month of the winter. 1993 memorable second half, and 2010 for its unforgettable last five days (on the 28th, the temperature at noon was -5C!). Mild Novembers are invariably dull and damp; 1994, 1997, 2002 (really horrid month), 2009, 2011 no thanks!

Not so much a statistic as a startling fact: It has now rained here every day for a month. The last completely dry day (0000-2359) was the 9th of October; since then there's been something every day, be it steady drizzle for hours (several days), unforecast showers appearing out of nowhere (Mon 5th Nov which was forecast dry) or just plain old frontal rain (several days again). Yet for all that we've had no thunder or hail, and only one day in this spell with over 20mm. No flooding either despite the rivers having looked very full for 2 weeks, and the ground is absolutely sodden. Really cannot remember such a long run of rain days, even during those summers of 2007-12 and Octobers of 1998-2004 we got some dry days. The closest I can find was the 3 dry days between April 4th and May 5th 2012. And more rain is approaching now, after we finally had a frost in the small hours....

Just had a heavy shower spring up out of nowhere, its heading your way.... Still no dry day, its 2 days short if a calendar month now

Yes more rain this morning as forecast this time, no sleet or frost, the hunt for a dry day goes on...

Probably no frost tonight as really clouded over since 9. Only got to 3C last night because of Cheshire Gap cloud and rain in the morning- I wish that stuff would stay away unless it's cold enough to snow! Will tomorrow be a dry day? The last day with absolutely no rain from midnight to midnight was, astonishingly, the 9th of October!!!

All forecasts were for dry today, instead we have a constant train of blustery showers. Not impressed, weathermen! Gotta be close to a month since we had a dry day now

Get a Dri-Buddi, about a quarter the price of a tumble drier and works just as well. Outside is risky all year round here, I left a load outside that night in late Sept when it was forecast guaranteed dry, at 8am it was lashing down.

Aviemore- it's drier by some margin, and snowier- yet the average max is almost the same. How do the sunshine hours in summer compare I wonder, I suspect Aviemore comes out duller mainly because of its shorter winter days.

Stopped raining after nigh on 18 hours non stop. And it hasnt cleared, its gone foggy!

Any chance of a dry day on the horizon, ie no rain from 0000 to 2359? Even the bright spell this week couldnt manage it, the last one must have been nearly a month ago

I can pass more wind than that! A few drops of rain and that was it- I thought wed miss the worst but an amber warning for nothing?????

If Earth rotated the other way (like Venus), would it mean east coasts of mid-latitude landmasses getting the maritime mild muck, and west coasts getting the continental climates? Sounds good, what could do it without causing a mass extinction? Maybe a close pass by a stray planet sized object that was close enough to cause all sorts of gravity/tidal perturbations without an impact (but would we be able to keep the Moon in that scenario?) Or an almighty blast from the solar wind turning it backwards, with aurorae all over the planet heralding the first western sunrise? More realistically, what if anything will happen to the climate when the magnetic poles reverse?

5 minutes of Sun, 5 minutes of rain, no thunder, not much wind, how boring.... Just know we're going to be too far north for the wind, too far south for the heaviest rain.

Missing everything here again, 30 miles north and south all the fun, just boring light rainshowers

It seemed like a very poor summer at the time (it was 10 years since a really bad one, and we'd got used to them bringing at least a few days of real heat every year)- but it has to be reassessed after the horrors of 2007-12. June and July didn't have any truly hot weather, which is why it seemed poor. August was actually OK here, it was a north-south split rather than a SE/everywhere else like we keep getting these days. You can see the warm area on that map up to about Manchester, contrast the mid-August 2012 SE-only heat for example. However it did not have anything approaching the rain of June/July 2007, July 2009, or summer 2012, the abysmal dullness of July 2010 and most recent Augusts, or the 3 months of cool cloudy dross that was summer 2011. In rating them overall, 1998 (and 2002 and 1993) are merely indifferent, rather than truly bad like the 2007-12 years.

Absolute minimum for October so far is higher than for September, and we haven't seen a ground frost let alone an air one. In 2009 the first airfrost was on December 1st, but that was exceptional, and October had a lower mean minimum than this year. Prior to 1998 or so the first one was typically in October, since then it's been early November on average. That thing about the bugs is really noticeable- there are flies, daddy long legs, harvest spiders and even wasps still creeping around everywhere, they haven't died off at all. And the grass is still growing like it's June.

Was a nice cool clear night.. until another load of cloudy gunk moved in from the west about midnight. What a tedious month this is

A good 2ft below the banks in town, even the tow path is still open.