{"id":1901,"date":"2014-07-20T21:18:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T21:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2014-07-20T21:18:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T21:18:17","slug":"first-half-of-july-is-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/first-half-of-july-is-average\/","title":{"rendered":"First half of July is\u2026 average?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the recent run of generally fine, dry and warm weather you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking this July so far would be anything but average \u2013 but the statistics tell a different story.<\/p>\n

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The UK mean temperature for 1-16 of the month is 15C, just 0.1C above average. UK<\/a> rainfall is perhaps surprisingly close to the average too, with 36.3mm of rain making up 46% of the whole-month average \u2013 we\u2019d expect to see about 52% of the average by now.<\/p>\n

Sunshine is the only measure, which is notably above average, with 111.4 hours for the UK, which is about 65% of the whole-month average (again, we\u2019d expect about 52% at this point in the month).<\/p>\n

These figures might not fit in with how many have perceived this month so far, which has seen a good deal of dry and fine weather.<\/p>\n

One possible reason for this is that UK day-time maximum temperatures have been slightly higher than average (19.7C), while the night-time minimums have been slightly lower than average (10.4C). So we\u2019ve experienced warmer days, and cooler nights, which adds up to a very average mean temperature (which includes day and night-time temperatures).<\/p>\n

Another reason for the statistics bucking the expectation is because, with the exception of last year, the preceding few summers have been generally a little disappointing.<\/p>\n

While last year\u2019s July was drier than average, five out of the six previous to that were wetter than average and three were cooler than average.<\/p>\n

So perhaps we feel that the recent fine and dry weather is more unusual than it really is because of recent history.<\/p>\n

Obviously it\u2019s far too early to judge how this July will finish overall, with half of the month still to add in to the statistics.<\/p>\n

You can explore all kinds of climate information, including monthly summaries back to 2001, and climate data back to 1910, on our climate pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nMean temperature<\/strong><\/td>\nSunshine<\/strong><\/td>\nRainfall<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 –\u00a016 July 2014 **<\/strong><\/td>\nActual<\/strong><\/td>\nDiff from 81-10 average<\/strong><\/td>\nActual<\/strong><\/td>\n% of 81-10 average<\/strong><\/td>\nActual<\/strong><\/td>\n% of 81-10 average<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\ndegC<\/strong><\/td>\ndegC<\/strong><\/td>\nhours<\/strong><\/td>\n%<\/strong><\/td>\nmm<\/strong><\/td>\n%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
UK<\/td>\n15.0<\/td>\n0.1<\/td>\n111.4<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n36.3<\/td>\n46<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
England<\/td>\n16.3<\/td>\n0.2<\/td>\n120.2<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n29.0<\/td>\n46<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wales<\/td>\n14.7<\/td>\n-0.3<\/td>\n110.6<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n29.5<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scotland<\/td>\n13.1<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n101.1<\/td>\n72<\/td>\n50.0<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
N Ireland<\/td>\n14.5<\/td>\n0.1<\/td>\n88.1<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n36.7<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

** Please note these are half-month statistics from 1-16 July. The final\u00a0figures will change once statistics from the second half\u00a0of the month are included.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Met Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the recent run of generally fine, dry and warm weather you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking this July so far would be anything but average \u2013 but the statistics tell a different story. The UK mean temperature for 1-16 of the month is 15C, just 0.1C above average. UK rainfall is perhaps surprisingly close to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":746,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}