The Weather!!!

What would us Brits do if we didn't have the weather to talk and moan about?? Is the weather in the UK and particularly the West Coast of Scotland as bad as we are lead to believe.

Well in a word YES, it has been the last couple of months.
Here are a few of the statistics we collected at Loch Leven Holidays from our "very professional" weather monitoring station!!!

The monthly rainfall from last October to the end of August is as follows in millimetres:




Oct.08 - 282mm
Nov.08 - 168mm
Dec.08 - 172mm
Jan.09 - 101mm
Feb.09 - 155mm
Mar.09 - 138mm
Apr.09 - 151mm
May 09 - 107mm
Jun.09 - 101mm
Jul.09 - 166mm
Aug.09 - 282mm !!!!!!!!!

Well as you can see August was very wet and July wasn't great either. The August figure is double what it was for last August. May & June were lovely months with not much rain and some glorious sunny days.

The 30th of June 09 gave us our hottest day of the year with the temperatures reaching a scorching 30.1 degrees.
In comparison, the average day time temperature in August was only 16 degrees and the night time temp dropped to 11.8 degrees.
The average for the summer (June/July & August) only reached a very poor 15.2 degrees!!

The coldest day in the last 12 months was on the 30th November 2008 and tempertures dropped to -5.9 degrees. A bit of a surprise to us, as we expected it to be colder in Jan or Feb.



And so what about the winds!!!

Based on the Beaufort Scale 1 = 0 - 4.6 miles per hour
2 = 4.6- 8.1 mph
3 = 8.1-12.7 mph
4 = 12.7-18.4 mph
5 = 18.4-25.3 mph

48.9% of the winds from Oct.08 to Aug.09 were a 1 (0-4.6 mph)
19.4% were a 2
7.6% were a 3
3.1% were a 4
0.6% were a 5

So is it true the Seasons are changing and we are getting much wetter and warmer weather. Not sure about the warmer but certainly wetter this summer! The good weather seems to be arriving earlier in the year April/May June and we are getting more Autumnial weather in the traditional summer months. So it may be we need to take our holidays a bit earlier www.glencoeselfcatering.co.uk

It will be interesting to see what the next few months bring, and wether we get an Indian summer!!