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  1. Weather-history Only 1980, 1987 and 2012 score lower on the summer index here than 2020 in the last 44 years. It was an atrocious summer in this area. All three summer months were duller and wetter than average. July was particularly bad with 49% of normal sunshine, 1.0C below average and 120% of normal rainfall. It is the only month ever to record below 100 hours of sunshine in summer. August had just 132 hours so only 229 hours of sunshine between them. The summer as a whole had just 411 hours of sunshine, beating out 1987 for the dullest on record by 2 hours.
  2. Daniel* It might surprise you, but the 1991-2000 summers average 637.5 hours - just 9 hours more than the 1991-2020 figure at Heathrow. The 90s had good summers but a few which will drop off were sub-600 hours (1991, 1992, 1997 and 2000) Essentially, as long as 2021-2030 average more than 637.5 hours it will rise on the next 30 year mean.
  3. In Absence of True Seasons Yes, I should note that although I don't like the heat at all for the reasons mentioned above, I do like the sunshine. If every summer month could be 300+ hours but only have a 20-22C average max then I would love that.
  4. Daniel* It'll be much higher for sure. In my own figures 1991-2020 is 1599 hours and 1994-2023 is already 1629 hours. The remaining years 1994-2000 which will drop off only average 1542 hours. So unless the next 7 years average 57 hours below the current average then the 2001-2030 value will be even higher.
  5. Weather-history Those figures have to be suspect? Durham only had 1456.9 hours in 1895.
  6. B87 I find that 2021 figure astounding, as we had 1612 hours here that year. It probably explains why people in the south-east region hated 2021 so much. Our dullest years were 1993 and 1998 with 1328 and 1334 hours. We haven't had a year with less than 1541 hours since 2002 now, so it shows how we're definitely getting sunnier over time up here.
  7. baddie 2006 had 97 hours (95%) and 2023 had 119 hours (97%). Both were pretty average months for sunshine here.
  8. 25.3 hours here in the first 16 days. The 10 dullest Marches here since 1980: 1996: 46hrs 1984: 49hrs 2005: 63hrs 1981: 66hrs 1991: 69hrs 2013: 77hrs 1998: 82hrs 2018: 83hrs 1980: 86hrs 1983: 87hrs 4.1 hours per day required to not end up in this list. What's also noteworthy is there are quite a few decent summers in these years.
  9. I'm the total opposite. I tend to get ill from April to October for the most part and get very little in the winter half. The last two times Ive had the flu was in June 2017 and September 2022. I haven't had so much as a sniffle since early October, but had three colds and a vomiting bug in the 6 months before. I suffer from chronic migraines and find them much worse in summer (up to 10-15 per month) as I really struggle with the heat. Winter is easier, I sleep better and so generally only get maybe 3-6 per month. I do supplement with vitamin D due to working nights and exercise all year around, finding it easier in the winter half.
  10. Nice this morning but as expected it clouded over by midday. Apart from mid-January I don't think we've had a fully clear day since September.
  11. It could be another close to record-breaking month that almost doesn't feel worthy - much like February. No exceptional warm (by day) or settled periods, just persistently mild, especially overnight with little cold to even start to balance it out.
  12. Weather-history We had 65.2 hours in February, so just 82.4 hours since 1st February. The last 10 days of January only had 17.3 hours aswell, so its just 99.7 hours in the last 43 days! The 1991-2020 average for that period is about 162 hours, so just under 62% of normal.
  13. WYorksWeather I remember these charts last month. They were suggesting a warm, dry and sunny April, but now seem to have flipped to more of the same in April. It doesn't inspire much confidence in the May forecast as March also flipped in a similar way closer to the time!
  14. Just 17.2 hours here in the first 14 days of the month. Today has been a bit better, but it'll be a bit short of the 6.2 hours a day now required to just reach the 1991-2020 average of 123 hours. Tomorrow was supposed to finally be a sunny day until the evening, but yet again the forecasts have gradually shifted so it looks like it'll be cloudy just after midday now. Just what will it take to get a clear day from dawn until dusk?
  15. danm It continued into the Autumn and December aswell. Spring 2020 had 683 hours of sunshine but June-December had 736 hours! Look at this run: July: 97 hours (49%) August: 132 hours (72%) September: 147 hours (101%) October: 74 hours (69%) November: 67 hours (97%) December 37 hours (71%) I suppose it shows that long dull periods aren't uncommon. Not that it makes just 16 hours of sun in the first 14 days of March less annoying.
  16. CryoraptorA303 This is not actually the case. Here are the winter average sunshine values here: 1951-80: 161 hours 1961-90: 165 hours 1971-00: 172 hours 1981-10: 189 hours 1991-20: 207 hours 1995-24: 214 hours (latest 30 year period) This year was slightly below average (191 hours), but not a patch on previous winters like 1992-93 and 1995-96 (both just 137 hours). Its crazy to think this winter would have been "sunny" compared to average 40 years ago.
  17. 2020, the sunniest Spring on record for us, only to be followed by the dullest summer on record (411 hours). It was the ultimate insult after having to work extra all Spring during lockdown and then when it finally eased off - cloudy constantly! July had 97 hours of sunshine and August 132 hours. July and August 2023 had 134 hours more!
  18. TwisterGirl81 Here we've had just 348.9 hours of sunshine since 1st October. The 1991-2020 average for that period is around 430 hours. In that 166 day period, over half of the days (85 days) have had 1 hour of sunshine or less. 57 have had no sunshine. I think the most damning stat is that only 47 days (just over a quarter) have had 3 hours or more. I don't have a clue what average would be, but that seems very low to me. It doesn't help that what sunshine we have had is over a few days, with long periods of hardly any in between. We're in one now (1.9hrs in the last 6 days), plus: 5th-18th Feb- 14.3hrs 3rd-14th Jan - 11.4hrs 19th - 28th Dec - 8.9hrs 15th - 28th Nov - 18.6hrs 20th Oct - 3rd Nov - 11.1hrs No wonder it has felt so dull.
  19. damianslaw 8.0C puts it in the top 11 in the CET series. It just shows how things have changed when a top 10 month is 'only' 1.4C above the recent 30 year average.
  20. johnholmes It's grim isnt it John? Ironically it has changed here today from easterly during the first 10 days but its to northerly, so not much better. Still haven't gone above 9.7C yet so far this month, though that will change soon.
  21. 11 days in now and just 14.1 hours of sunshine. It looks to be a continuing cloudfest until at least the weekend aswell. Already we need 5.5 hours of sunshine per day for the remaining 20 days just to reach the 1991-2020 average. What an awful run of weather in the last 6 months.
  22. Derecho Another top 10 month by the looks. It seems like we can get them without trying these days. It opens up the possibility of April being colder than February, March and possibly even December. I wouldnt put any money on it though!
  23. NEVES SCREAMER the cold didn't arrive though. Its been above average throughout apart from briefly in early-Dec and early to mid-Jan. It's not going to ever feel warm right now when we've just had a February almost as warm as an average April.
  24. baddie You've got to be kidding. April has been the most dry, sunny and warmer than average of all the Spring months in recent years. Locally, since 2007, we've had 10 here with 21mm of rainfall or less (the average is 46.7mm). All but 6 have had more than 110% of sunshine in the last 22 years and 8 of those had 200+ hours. 12 Aprils since 2002 have reached 20C or more, compared to just 5 in the 22 years before. 2020, 2021 and 2022 had 6.6mm, 2.4mm and 4.0mm of rainfall and 227, 248 and 218hrs of sunshine. It has been reliably the best month of the year for dry, sunny and warm conditions relative to average.
  25. In Absence of True Seasons It has been absolutely woeful here so far. Just 14.2 hours of sunshine, a highest temperature of 9.7C and 120% of the expected rainfall for the first 10 days of the month. Every single day has had a nagging easterly wind aswell. It has been terrible.
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