{"id":1301,"date":"2018-09-05T14:41:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T13:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2019-09-12T21:28:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T20:28:53","slug":"uk-weather-tracker-2018-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/uk-weather-tracker-2018-august\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Weather Tracker #19 – August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

After 3 months of hot, dry and sunny weather, the UK returned to normal in August with a completely unremarkable month.<\/p>\n

The meteorological year starts in December which is why December appears as the 1st data point in the charts below.\u00a0 More information on the layout of the charts can be found in this pos<\/a>t.\u00a0 Points lying between the upper and lower deciles are shown as open black circles, points lying between the deciles and minimum\/maximum are shown as solid black circles and any month with a new record is shown as solid black squares.<\/p>\n

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There is nothing of note to say about August but it does mark the end of the meteorological summer and as I explain in my\u00a0Weather Trends<\/a> post about the summer, the summer of 2018 has been one of best ever.\u00a0 However, this was not necessarily the case everywhere in the UK as shown in my\u00a0regional chart of temperatures below.\u00a0 At the moment, I do not track regional statistics every month but I do track temperature by season.\u00a0 The chart shown here, is the Z-Score for each region for the 2018 summer.\u00a0 A Z-Score is simply the regional temperature minus the long term average for that region divided by the long term standard deviation for that region.\u00a0 Doing this, gets around the issue that each region is different on average whereas z-scores all have the same scale, namely number of standard deviations from the mean.<\/p>\n

\"\"For the UK as a whole, Summer 2018 was the joint hottest on record tying with 2006.\u00a0 For the South East and North East, it was the hottest summer ever.\u00a0 Indeed, it appears that the East coast of England was hot throughout but on the west coast, it was hot but not extraordinary.\u00a0 In Scotland, there may well have been hot spells but overall the summer was not one to get worked up about.<\/p>\n

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PS: If you bookmark this link<\/a>, it will be refreshed with the latest month’s data.\u00a0 I usually post the update in the first week of each month.<\/em><\/p>\n

Click the relevant month to see my other weather trackers.\u00a0 Alternatively click the Weather Tracker<\/a> hash tag below this post to see a list of all such posts.<\/p>\n