8/10 up to mid-July, 1/10 since then.
It started off as a wonderful old-school summer - temperatures swinging around the 61-90 average, replicating the summers of my childhood in the 80s. Dewpoints were generally lower than in recent years, there was a mix of sun, cloud, rain and a breeze and it was all very useable weather and everything was lush and green.
Then in mid-July it's as if a switch were flicked, and we went into modern drought/sauna mode, with very little rain, very little cloud and a great deal of humidity, with dewpoints reaching the low 20s on several occasions (something which was unknown until around a decade ago). Things quickly dried, and died, so now the yellowy lawn is scattered with leaves shed by the trees - and the countryside is parched, as per usual. Temperatures shot up and there have only been a handful of days below the 91-20 average high since then.
June: av max: 20.7, av min: 10.7, max, 26.5, min, 5.9
July: av max: 22.9, av min: 13.2, max, 31.4, min, 8.9
August: av max: 24.7, av min: 14.2, max, 33.6, min, 10.4
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01 September 2024 06:48:06
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