All this polar air aloft is doing wonders for the sunshine amounts despite the convective build-up during the daytime.
This is thanks to the still fairly long morning periods during which the sun is shining but not heating the surface too much, and also a fair number of sunny evenings as the surface cools and convection subsides, usually by some time between 6 and 7pm around here.
The sunny skies have at times persisted all day over in west Hampshire, thanks to a divergence of low level winds extending inland from the coast on days with a northerly airstream, of which there have been many of late.
It has been a truly bizzarre August really, one that has felt more like late April/Early May, or perhaps early/mid-October than the third month of summer.
I have enjoyed sampling the exceptionally clean, fresh air on offer and coupled with reasonably strong sunshine that still wins out when the winds are light - which has been on most days aside from last Saturday.
It's a shame that this month pretty much shatters 2014's chance to become the warmest year on record, at least in my region, unless it manages a truly exceptional September/October combination in terms of warmth.
...well, that's what I think is the case. I'm sure GW will have all the facts when the annual CET thread is updated at the turn of the month
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