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| Blue sky being somewhat rare this summer so far |
The second month of summer only offered a slight improvement over the first, this courtesy of the Jet stream that moved further north than it had been and sat roughly mid-country. The jet stream had a buckle to our South West which was was still allowing low pressure systems to hit us from the atlantic.
A real taste of summer hit around the 22nd with temperatures soaring to the late twenty's and locally even higher and 6 glorious days of zero rainfall!
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Mud tracks at the war and peace show, Hop Farm,
Paddock Wood, Kent |
This brief respite only served to highlight what a shocking summer we are having in 2012, and despite those high temperatures July was the second coldest since I began keeping records in 2005 (marginally beaten by July 2011 by 0.2C and that was the coldest for quite a few years.
August will have to be exceptional to rescue the summer, and thats not looking likely!
Hawley Stats:
Mean Temp. 16.4
High. 31.1
Low. 7.9
High Wind. 32 mph
SE England Stats:
Temp anomaly: -1.1
Rain %. 176
Sun % 86
