City Times Issue 82

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Weather

As can be seen from the charts, May averages were up on last year, as was the max and min temperature. However winds towards the end of the month were from a North or North Easterly direction thereby depressing the temperature. June was a complete disappointment with temperatures way down on last year. Northerly winds predominated again in the middle of the Month.
Wind direction and spells of rain all helped to lower temperatures. We have also experienced systems of low pressure from the South West which normally occur in the Autumn. Continual windy conditions have occurred with very few calm days. The weather continues to be unsettled with no signs of any high pressure systems forming. The Iberia peninsula also got off to an unusually wet May and early June.

	May 2008 (2007)	June 2008 (2007)
Average	15.19 (13)	15.30 (16.43)
Max	25.88 (22.11)	23.28 (28.88)
Min	5.7 (4.27)	7.11 (7.72)

Rainfall

2008 (2007)

May 39.5mm 83mm

June 60.5mm 197.5mm

Half year 377.5mm 454.6mm

Weather Facts

The highest world temperature ever recorded was a blistering 136 degrees F (56.7C) at Al Aziziyah, Libya, on September 13, 1922. Death Valley, California, runs it a close second with 134 degrees F (56.7 C) recorded in July 1913.
The lowest world temperature recorded was at the Vostok Station, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983 when -128.6 degrees F (-89.6C) was recorded without windchill!
The greatest rainfall recorded in a single day was 73.62 inches over the Indian Ocean on March 15th, 1952, while the one minute rainfall record was l.23 inches in Unionville MD, on July 4th 1956.