June Monthly Report

June 2015 has felt like a fairly disappointing month overall, but the figures don't make it obvious why.  The temperature, rainfall and wind have all been close to the expected values we'd see, but despite this June feels like a disappointment.

An overall average temperature of 13.6°C is right on the average for Blackburn, at least according to MSN and Weatherbase.com, and the average maximum temperature was actually 1°C above the corresponding figures quoted on these websites, 18.2°C compared to 17°C historically.  The average minimum, at 8.6°C, was a couple of degrees or so below the historic average, but this isn't enormously different and as this relates to night-time conditions we wouldn't really notice anyway.

We had some windy days, most noticeably at the beginning of the month, but overall winds have been fairly light and unremarkable.  And the overall rainfall total, at 50.7mm, all but hits the historic average for June.

So do we just expect too much for June?  Perhaps there's a little in this, as June marks the start of summer when we all hope for a stretch of warm sunny days for picnics, barbecues and the like, so expectations are probably higher than they should.  But there's another factor going on too - the weekends in particular haven't been great, and these are the times when summer weather is most memorable.

Anyway, there's still plenty of summer left, so here's to a better July!