July Monthly Report

The slight frustration about the weather felt in June has not gone away in July, in fact if anything the weather has been more of a disappointment.  Overall, temperatures have been a couple of degrees down on what we'd expect, all the more dismal considering the exceptionally high temperatures we saw at the start of the month!  The other standout stat on temperature is that it's been a pretty consistent trend downwards as this graph shows:

Wind in July hasn't been excessive, though there has been a steady breeze throughout the month, and always from a cool direction too.  The rain though has been above expectations - not by a lot, 70.5mm overall is around 10% above the seasonal expected amount, and the rain has fallen on most days - 21 days have been wet this month.

Of course, it's a well worn joke in these parts that the weather rarely plays fair during the traditional Wakes weeks - not generally observed now of course but historically the third and fourth weeks of July, and that's certainly been true this year.