Summer8906 We have had a few below average months here since December 2022.
April 2023 (10.2c), July 2023 (18.4c) August 2023 (18.4c), January 2024 (5.5c) all had mean temps below average here.
Metwatch For London, the dullest was March 1984 with 51.4 hours, and the sunniest March 1995 with 194.5 hours. Average is 124.4 hours.
March was duller than Jan and Feb in 2023, 2001, 1984, 1981.
reef London summers since the end of the 91-20 period:
2021: 481.2 hours
2022: 754.1 hours
2023: 646.7 hours
3 year average of 627.3 hours, but that includes the dullest summer in the entire record.
CryoraptorA303 November had near average sunshine, but was very dry with only 3 wet days and 10mm rainfall.
January, May, August and December were close to record levels of dull. April was the only month to actually reach or surpass it's average (a sunny month with 224 hours here).
A list of London's cloudiest Marches on record. Will 2024 join it?
Mar 1984 - 51.4 hours
Mar 1981 - 56.8 hours
Mar 1992 - 61.8 hours
Mar 1960 - 65.0 hours
Mar 1964 - 66.8 hours
Mar 1969 - 66.8 hours
Mar 1975 - 66.9 hours
Mar 2023 - 67.0 hours
Mar 2013 - 68.6 hours
Mar 1996 - 75.9 hours
Mar 2018 - 77.2 hours
Mar 2001 - 78.2 hours
Mar 1980 - 83.2 hours
Mar 2024 so far - 43.1 hours after 16 days.
Scorcher Interestingly, 2003.5 hours!
2021 had a pathetic 1369.6 hours. Apart from late March and April it felt like the grey was unrelenting for 11 months.
The average of those 2 years is 1686 hours, pretty much exactly the long term average, so those 2 years seem to represent the best and worst possible.
Scorcher In 2003, we had above average sunshine in 10 of the 12 months. The 2 months that didn't, saw very close to average totals (May with 206 hrs and July with 213).
2003 was the sunniest year on record here. 2021 was the dullest, with only April being sunnier than average.
MP-R We need a fine 10 months now, just to even out the previous 10 months of unsettled rubbish.
I want a dry April, May, June, July, August, September and October at the very least, with at least one of June-August seeing less than 10mm.