Summer 2013 summaries and overall views

[hillbilly]

Sometimes statistics do not give a real picture of weather so here is my list of summers that I believe or definitely felt were better than summer 2013

that I have experienced...

1975

1976

1983

1984

1989

1990

1995

1996

1997

2003

2006

[Milhouse]

Sometimes statistics do not give a real picture of weather so here is my list of summers that I believe or definitely felt were better than summer 2013

that I have experienced...

1975

1976

1983

1984

1989

1990

1995

1996

1997

2003

2006

 

So going back almost 40 years you find 11 summers that were better than 2013. That means that theres much more that were worse than 2013. And i look on your list and find 1997. August was stunning but June 1997 was the wettest of the century.

[laserguy]

Has summer gone now, and can I come out again?

[hillbilly]

So going back almost 40 years you find 11 summers that were better than 2013. That means that theres much more that were worse than 2013. And i look on your list and find 1997. August was stunning but June 1997 was the wettest of the century.

yes but would take 2 great months and a wet one over this year...and even this july had the rainfall albeit thunderstorms yet its the best month ever??

[hillbilly]

What I was trying to say is that there are 11 summers that I remember that were better in my view than 2013 and not 3 and if I were to think more I would say another 2 to 4 may be on a par .I think that the dryness has pushed this year up and not the long spells of sunny periods and out of this area it was definitely better than here!

[reef]

So going back almost 40 years you find 11 summers that were better than 2013. That means that theres much more that were worse than 2013. And i look on your list and find 1997. August was stunning but June 1997 was the wettest of the century.

 

Indeed and that's the problem with going with how a summer 'feels' and on memory rather than looking at raw figures. People tend to remember things selectively. Several of the summers in that list of 11 had months which weren't actually that good, June 1990, June 1997 and August 2006 for example.

 

Stats can hide things of course, but for direct comparisons to previous years they are pretty accurate.