Yet again June was so bad it’s been the worst month of the year. Even compared to the rock-bottom standards set since 2007 it was a dismal month.
I said at the time of the record sunny February that it would turn out sunnier than at least one summer month, possibly all three. Yet another toxic June has proved the first part correct. The sunshine was boosted by last Wednesday to Friday but still ended up with another abysmal total.
Yet again we reach summer and the sunshine levels fall off a cliff:
Jan: 96.3hrs (143%)
Feb: 144.6hrs (167%)
March: 149.9hrs (117%)
April: 215.6hrs (140%)
May: 236.0hrs (117%)
June: 134.6hrs (79%)
Absolutely sick of this crap almost every year since 2007. Who the hell wants loads of sunshine during the cold months only to end up with this endless gloom come summer? Especially when the excess sun in winter is only due to nasty cold windy westerlies that prevent there from being any snow
June is an utter car crash year in year out pretty much. The stats are horrifying. The 1991-2020 average will be just 167 hours – down from a peak of 201 hours for 1911-40. Since 1997 only 2003, 2018 and 2019 have managed 200 hours. Absolutely staggering. No other month has changed so much. The fact that November, Winter and Spring have become so much sunnier just accentuates the depressing dullness of June.
Since 2007 the average has been just 155 hours – 13 hours less than April. Half of the Junes since 2007 have recorded less than 140 hours sunshine whereas between 1880 and 1970, which is the last time we had a really sunny June, only 12 Junes failed to beat this wretchedly poor total. June 1942 had similar sunshine to this month and was the dullest for 26 years yet three Junes since 2007 have been duller (2007, 2012, 2014) with a further two (2016, 2017) only fractionally sunnier.
What used to be exceptionally bad is now the norm in this rotten stinking awful era for weather. Even the notoriously bad summers of the 50s and 60s weren’t a patch on the utter dross endured since 2007. The Junes of 1953, 1954, 1958 and 1966 were the only ones in those two decades poor enough to come in under 140 hours.
Furthermore, as if these dismal sunshine totals aren’t bad enough, they’re made to feel even worse thanks to the loathsome and irrational ‘Weekend Curse’. Only two months out of 15 now in which the weekends have been sunnier than the weekdays. This horror June one of the very worst at just 63% of the weekday average matching last July’s execrable performance.
Is this ever going to end?
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