Year 2007

An exceptionally mild (and wet) winter preceded a warm, sunny and dry spring and then a lousy, cool, wet and dull summer though August 'sort' of saved the day. Then followed a very dry and settled autumn. No floods or anything out of the ordinary rainfall wise. The complete absence of any settled, warm weather from the 12th June until the 29th July was, depressingly, the only notable weather feature of the summer. Though June did get off to a very warm start and August ended with some hot and sunny weather the summer overall was the worst I have ever known. Potatoes and tomatoes in the garden and allotment were ravaged by blight, something which has not happened here (according to the locals) in living memory. Despite the poor summer the year had a mean temperature of 11.2C which is the same as 2006. Sea surface temperatures in Lyme Bay did not get as high as 2006 (21.1C) but still achieved a respectable 20.0C around the end of August/early September.

Summer in the spring: bluebells and wild garlic being bathed in warm sunshine during one the warmest and sunniest Aprils ever recorded. Mean Max 15.9 oC   Mean Min 6.6 oC   Mean 11.2 oC           High Max 29.4 oC 25th August Low Max 2.3 oC 20th December High Min 15.5 oC 4th August Low Min -4.8 oC 24th November Grass Min -5.5 oC 23rd December       Rain Total 901.9  mm   Rain Days >0.2 161  Days   Rain Days >1.0 114  Days   Rainfall Duration 359  Hours   Max 24 hrs 36.1  mm 27th May       Air Frost 24  Days   Snow Falling 0  Days   Snow (50%) @ 9am 0  Days   Thunder Heard 14  Days   Hail <5 mm 2  Days   Hail >5 mm 0  Days   Fog @ 9am 2  Days         Total monthly sunshine 1723.3  Hours*   Most sunshine in a day 14.9  Hours 31st July Sunless days 28  Days         Mean Soil Temperature @ 30 cm 11.6 oC   Mean Soil Temperature @ 100 cm 11.4 oC         Wind >39 mph 1  Day   N 46.1  Days   NE 53.6  Days   E 21.3  Days   SE 48.3  Days   S 42.9  Days   SW 31.4  Days   W 67.1  Days   NW 46.0  Days   Calm 107.8  Days   Mean Wind 3.7  mph   Max Gust 42  mph 2nd December       Cloud cover 49 %   Mean RH @ 9am 88.5 %   Rain Duration >0.1mm/hour 359.0  Hours   Frost Duration 147.3  Hours         Mean Pressure @ 9am 1016.7  mb   Max Pressure 1038.6  mb 3rd February Min Pressure 978.7  mb 12th February *Total annual sunshine amounts are likely to be slightly lower than actual due to partial obstruction of sunlight to the sensor. This was rectified from September onwards.