Funnily enough, I was saying just exactly the same thing on today's CC thread earlier on this afternoon.
That's because I wasn't here the past week meaning I missed the 27.7C that was reached on Friday.
Was in Stirling. Weather wasn't great to start but really picked up from Monday onwards. Thursday was the hottest day there.
Now I'm back the weather has returned to the same soul destroying grey gunk that I left on the 9th July.
It's yet another putrid grey Sunday. 10C cooler than yesterday but not bothered about that as could do with a break from the heat. It's the unrelenting overcast I can't stand.
I can't put into words just how sick to death I am of constantly having to endure these revolting conditions on one of my two days off when it is supposed to be summer
Sunday sunshine this summer:
6th June - 4.8hrs
13th June - 9.3hrs
20th June - 0.0hrs
27th June - 3.0 hrs
4th July - 0.0 hrs
11th July - 3.2 hrs
Just one decent Sunday so far and even that only produced a total that could be recorded during winter. The only day of the week not to record a 10+ hour total.
Sun averages by day of week:
Thu - 9.73
Sat - 7.80
Tue - 7.06
Fri - 6.94
Wed - 6.13
Mon - 4.57
Sun - 3.38
Saturday has been the second sunniest day but it's not good enough to cancel out the lousy Sundays. Thursdays which also averaged over 9 hours in 2018. About time we saw a weekend day put in that kind of performance but no it never happens. It's always at least one of the weekend days putting in a pitiful performance.
Only 2007 and 2012 produced a lower average than 3.38 hours, which says it all, and the average will likely fall further today. A rotten 0.3 hrs recorded so far with no sign of the grim rubbish breaking.
Sunshine hours have been bizarre this month. I've been saying how it's increasingly all or nothing as regards sunshine amounts and this month has been the most extreme example. Not a single day has recorded between 5.3 hours and 13.3 hours which is ridiculous.
Five brilliantly sunny days (1st, 14th-17th) produced 74.6 hours between them compared to a stupefyingly awful 20.1 hours in the 12 days from the 2nd to 13th. What you would expect in December so a spell of rank summer weather on a par with 2007/12 just like this terrible run of godawful Sundays.
I really hope this isn't the start of another extended spell of misery
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