summer '95

The average 212 was actually not derived from using 30 year averages but over a longer period of time of readings of mean max temperatures, rain days and sunshine right back to 1901.

Summer index = 10x [(mean max temperature) + (total sunshine/67) - (number of rain days/8]

Actually the index rating doesn't take into account of the amount of rain that has fallen but the number of rain days i.e. the number of days where rainfall was recorded. This takes into account to how rainfall totals can distort figures. eg 140mm of rain was recorded during August 1981 but 95mm of that fell in one day and there were 23 days where no rain was recorded.

I have calculated the summer index rating for Summer 2004 in Manchester. Summer 2004 had a rating of 196, the lowest value since 1998 which had a value of 192. The high mean temperatures of June and August saved the summer from having a lower index rating. The rating for an average summer in Manchester is 212. The highest rating was 301 for summer 1976 The lowest rating was 143 for summer 1954

I second that, it may still even be developing as I saw it develop across the fields.

Very wintry shower in Irlam with hail/sleet/snow

4C in Manchester, squally showers of rain/hail and occasional sleet

Just had a rain shower with sleet in it.

The sun is out and it is 13C in Manchester

There was some sleet in a heavier burst earlier on

Have you copied my thread from the TWO site? :lol:

A Times reader

17C now :shock:

Aberdeen is experiencing the fohn effect. Temperatures already up to 16C

6C in Manchester, cold cloudy with showers from time to time