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One above average, one slightly above average and one average month, though all were cloudier than normal. Every other August of the last 10 years has been cooler and cloudier than normal.
12C and pouring with rain in mid-afternoon on June 28th. The tragic thing is, it doesn't feel that unusual these days while the 25C we had at the beginning of June did.
I see you still need 9.2 sun hours to reach the magic 100 for the month, and it looks like almost no sun tomorrow and sunny spells on Thursday. Going to be close!
Where I live has failed to reach 100 sun hours in June before (not this year though), but it's almost surreal to think of it happening down there, even as somebody who lived in London in June 2012
It's exceptionally bad, even more so considering it has blown away June 2012 which recorded 118.5 hrs (which itself blew away the previous record of 132.5 hrs in 1990). The June average is 205 hrs at Heathrow (probably around 225-235 hrs for the unadjusted data).
Our winters have actually averaged out fairly normal in temps and sunshine since 2007. The super mild winters of 07/08, 11/12 and 15/16 were cancelled out by the super cold 08/09, 09/10 and 10/11 winters, with the rest being fairly normal. The winter of 2010/11 was the cloudiest on record here, but the rest have had a normal mix of cloudy and sunnier than average months.
It's weird when people on Netweather are saying that this has been a good summer month, and the warmest June since 2003. Down here it's been a complete failure.
Eastbourne recording 388 hours of sunshine in May 1911 seems a million lightyears away from today's reality
Heathrow recorded 310 hours of sun in May 1989, and 302 hrs in July 2006 (though that was with a KZ sensor - it's been downgraded to 268 hrs to match the CS data). I wonder how sunny May 1989 would have been with an electronic sensor?
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