UK On Track For Driest, Sunniest, Warmest Year Ever Recorded

[hatrack]

"Another weather record tumbled yesterday when it was
confirmed that January to October was the sunniest
period documented. The Meteorological Office said it was also likely to be the
driest 10-month stretch since records began in 1873.

Unparalleled levels of warm sunshine have already
earned this year a place in the annals of weather history
for the highest temperature, warmest summer nights and
the sunniest September.

EDIT

The record for the driest January-to-October period is
also expected to fall.

EDIT

According to the Climatic Research Unit at the University
of East Anglia, if temperatures remain slightly above
average until the end of December, 2003 will also become
the warmest year since statistics were first compiled in
1659. The record was set in 1990 and equalled four years
ago, with an average temperature of 10.63C (51.1F).



Telegraph

[patdem]

1. How boring must be a sunny UK? All those gray buildings

against a blue sky just seems somehow illegal? Britan is known for its grey drizzly weather and I find sunny England sort of freightening...is this a halloween scare??? :scared:

[LibLabUK]

2. Ahem

"How boring must be a sunny UK? All those gray buildings against a blue sky just seems somehow illegal?"

There's a lot of green areas in our cities, and drive for an hour or so from the centre of London and you'll be in rolling countryside (greenfields, animals, woods etc). Drive for a few minutes more and you'll be at the seaside. This holds true for everywhere in the country (you're never more than 80miles from the coast anywhere in mainland Britain).

In addition to that, depending on what part of the country live in different building materials are used. In my part of London we have red brick, yellow sandstone, white limestone, glass and steel of various colours.

I can't think of anywhere (in London anyway) that is just "grey".