Not much to say about summer [JJAJJA Meteorological Summer comprising the months June, July & August] other than it ended up a very average summer. That was because the cooler, cloudier, wetter conditions in the northwest, were almost perfectly cancelled out by the drier, sunnier and warmer weather in the east and southeast.
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July 2024 was rather cool and dull, wet in places in the south, but drier in central and Western Scotland.
Despite the 1,221 M difference in height AMSLAMSL The height Above Mean Sea Level. between them, temperatures at Heathrow (+0.2°C) and at CairngormCairn Gorm Cairn Gorm (Scottish Gaelic: An Cà rn Gorm) is a mountain in the Scottish Highlands. It is part of the Cairngorms range and wider Grampian Mountains. With a summit elevation of 1,245 m (4,085 ft) above sea level, Cairn Gorm is classed as a Munro and is the seventh-highest mountain in the British Isles. (-0.1°C) were both very close to the LTALTA Long Term Average. This is usually defined as a 30 year period by the WMO. for July.
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Temperatures were just a little below average, a cold spell in the first half of the month was cancelled out by a cold spell in the second. Rainfall was below average in the east and well below average south of 53°N. Sunshine was close to or a little above average in most places, but it was dull month across Northern Ireland and NW Scotland.
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May 2024 was a record warm month in Scotland. In the north of Scotland mean temperature were +3.5°C above the 1991-2020 LTALTA Long Term Average. This is usually defined as a 30 year period by the WMO., and beat the previous record set in 1889 by 1.6°C. The UKMOUKMO The Meteorological Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy say the high mean temperatures were down to high overnight minimum temperatures, that may be true for the whole of the UKUK The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland., but not for northern Scotland where the mean maximum anomaly of +3.3°C was very similar to the mean minimum anomaly of+3.5°C.
May was also another rather dry month in NW Scotland with rainfall totals just 63% of the LTA. Although there were some very sunny days total sunshine for the month was just 85% of the LTA.
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My auto headline in my UKMOUKMO The Meteorological Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy gridded weather application for the weather in April 2024 in the UKUK The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. was “Mild, wet and rather dull”, which I sums it up quite succinctly. I wrote the code for the auto-headline routine 10 years ago now and it still does a pretty good job. I tried to get an answer from Chat GPT about what it thought the weather had been like and all I got was this. 😜
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The North of Scotland features quite highly in the March climate statistics as being colder, sunnier & much drier than average.
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The north of Scotland was the driest, sunniest, coldest and frostiest region in the UKUK The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. in December 2023. It’s a shame the UKMOUKMO The Meteorological Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy don’t provide a chart showing mean wind speeds which this month would show that it’s also been pretty windy too. The +0.1°C mean temperature for northern Scotland has been
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Mean temperatures were close to average across England and Wales and southeast Scotland but slightly below average across the north and west of Scotland. Rainfall was above average in the south but much of Scotland was drier than average. Sunshine was well above average across England, the southwest and northwest of Scotland and Northern Ireland but much duller across west Wales, southwest England and northeast Scotland.
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