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Saint Snow
03 September 2024 08:23:36

I have used Kevin Bradshaw’s “Manchester Summer Index” formula to plot the summer indexes for 2024 and the previous 7 years 2017-2023 for both NW and SE England

This index combines Maximum Temperature, Sun Hours and Rain Days into an index value ranging from about 150-350 for the whole or part of a summer

There was a fair bit if debate this year about how different the summer felt between the north and south of the UK and this is borne out by the two graphs.

The NW England graph show that 2024 was almost bottom of the 2017-2024 summers for that area in terms of the index value whereas in the SE it was a fairly average summer being around the middle of the pack

The SE index is on average higher by about 75 due to average maxima being 3-4C higher (40% contribution) less rain days (40%) and more sun hours (20%) but this year the difference was about 95 in favour of the SE

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Originally Posted by: lanky 

That's interesting about the respective WSI's.

My feelings about this summer is that it's frequently dangled a carrot, then quickly whipped it away again. We've not had any sustained summery weather - and I'm not talking temps up around 30c, just 2/3/4 weeks of sunny and dry with high-pressure over the UK. So many times the models have shown a spell of nice weather, only for that to get shortened and shortened once we're a couple of days away, so we end up with 1/2/3 days of summer then a breakdown.

Impossible to plan anything with any certainty, even a few days away.

I'd give this summer 4/10

Martin

Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)

A TWO addict since 14/12/01

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Saint Snow
03 September 2024 08:26:00
Oh, and another thing - this thread's been moved to this section of the forum way too early. It should sit in the main forum for a few weeks to allow more people to post their summaries of summer - not many will notice that it's in here and still active

Martin

Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)

A TWO addict since 14/12/01

"How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics."

Aneurin Bevan

johncs2016
04 September 2024 10:43:59

Oh, and another thing - this thread's been moved to this section of the forum way too early. It should sit in the main forum for a few weeks to allow more people to post their summaries of summer - not many will notice that it's in here and still active

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 

I agree with that, so I shall also copy my summer ratings post with all of the various statistics into what should have just been the summer moaning thread on the main weather forum as others are doing.

The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.

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