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Paul, yes, rare times indeed. The green and pleasant land is not so green these days. Somewhat different to the usual description of an English summer - three fine days followed by a thunderstorm. There is rain about 20 miles south but only localised. WE may get some but probably not. Only 8.5hrs to...

Record was out by one day after a power cut messed the PC up. Seven year record broken for longest all-time dry spell. It seems unlikely it will rain today so I'll be back again tomorrow...

See next post which corrects a record.

mcrossley wrote:Sometimes it is feeling like a max of 1.6 would be quite nice, mid 20's is enough for me.

Ditto! But in a perverse sort of way I do get excited when the possibility of a new record is about to be broken.

Max of 1.6C??

Turvey wrote:Orkney's been pretty good recently as well

Indeed it has but the temperature will be somewhat lower. Then again, at this time of year you can read a book outdoors at 11pm.

A most unusual June 2018 has just finished. Two all-time records broken and three monthly ones ... All-Time Highest Daily Range 20.8°C on 25th Lowest Monthly Rainfall 0.22" (6mm) Monthly Highest Temp 31.6°C on 26th Lowest Humidity 22% on 28th Longest Dry Period 14 days (and continuing) Record a...

steve wrote:Thanks, Ray, but we have all the sunshine we can handle, France is having similar weather to the UK. Temperature in the mid thirties here today.

After Orkney that must come as quite a contrast.

Nice to hear you have a fixed base again Steve. I trust you will be setting up a weather station soon. Would you like some of our sunshine? Haven't seen a cloud for days. For Cheshire that is most unusual!

Take care and my best to Mrs Steve.

No worries Steve. I shall have to find a way of drawing people’s attention to it.

I'm revisiting this discussion from last year as it's very likely that not only will the June low rainfall record be broken but the all-time monthly one too. Am I right in assuming the all-time record light will not flash as there is no all-time low rainfall record flag set in the core Cumulus progr...

Agreed Mark. I’ve only had 8% of average rainfall in June and with nothing forecast before the weekend that will be another record gone.
How long before comparisons are made with 1976? Youngsters may need to google that!

A very rare occurrence on my 9.2 year-old station. All-time record broken for greatest daily temperature range.

20.8°C. Min was 9.7°C; max was 30.5°C. Wow!

A new June high for this station. 30.5C at 16:51 beats 30.4C on 21 June 2017.

My last update was at 02:10 this morning. Rare failure. They'll have it sorted soon I'm sure.