Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

orrery

silverwhistle wrote: »

but you do get a look to see if you are under 25...

I don't

InVestor_2

£9.11 yesterday (18.8 kWh)

Already over £70 for the month, next payment early next month, should be a cracker

John_Pierpoint

EricMears wrote: »

Have you moved recently ?

Whatever the forecasters have told you, there's absolutely no chance of anyone in the UK getting the same sort of weather for 30 consecutive days !

Possibly parts of Arabian Peninsula or maybe even N Africa might offer that.

I bet Summer 1976 had two months of similar (endless) sunshine ?!

Eng&Wales Sunshine: 748.4hrs

Here are some one month records:

Sunshine hours: Highest monthly sunshine records

Country.....Hours...Date.........Location

England.....383.9....July 1911..Eastbourne (Sussex)

Wales........354.3....July 1955..Dale Fort (Pembrokeshire)

Scotland....329.1....May 1975..Tiree (Argyll & Bute)

N.Ireland....298.0....June 1940..Mount Stewart (County Down)

legoman62

3.59 O's yesterday:D

Forecast say's cooler weather and showers for the next few days:(

Well above PVGIS Climate-SAF for August so far:)

EricMears

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Here are some one month records:

Sunshine hours: Highest monthly sunshine records

Country.....Hours...Date.........Location

England.....383.9....July 1911..Eastbourne (Sussex)

But even Eastbourne didn't rate a mention HERE as being one of the few towns to have more than 27 rainless days and there was only one place (Bath) with more than 30 days.

tunnel

Checked my 2 meters this evening and I've recorded 130kWh between the pair over the past 10 days, just above pvgis estimates between the 2. I'll take that anytime while the forecasters keep getting it wrong(supposed to be sunny yesterday and today and was nowt like)

John_Pierpoint

EricMears wrote: »

But even Eastbourne didn't rate a mention HERE as being one of the few towns to have more than 27 rainless days and there was only one place (Bath) with more than 30 days.

Interestingly Tunbridge Wells scores the greatest excess of sunshine over average for the month - but perhaps it is normally cloudier than Eastbourne.
Summer seems to have been 29 days of sunshine followed by a thunderstorm.

June, July and August 1976 are similar and at 150% of normal sunshine for many places away from the west of the country.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/o/o/Jun1976.pdf
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/o/4/Jul1976.pdf
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/p/s/Aug1976.pdf

Then the government appointed a minister for drought and the heavens opened.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/p/s/Sep1976.pdf
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/q/6/Oct1976.pdf

By October some places were enduring 50% of normal sunshine and 200% of normal rainfall.

At least I no longer had to creep out at night to protect my investment of £150 (after volume discount) of trees and shrubs in my "green field" new garden.

legoman62

2.54 O's yesterday:D

Passed 1500kWh for 3rd quarter FITs (new record) at lunch today:T

Couple more days to make it to a £750.00 payment for the 3 months:beer:

Oscargrouch

legoman62 wrote: »

2.54 O's yesterday:D

Passed 1500kWh for 3rd quarter FITs (new record) at lunch today:T

Couple more days to make it to a £750.00 payment for the 3 months:beer:

I work that out as £187.5p O's (excluding time to go)
Mine is ££188.22 O's with 11 days to go. (22nd). :beer:
Friday - 4.08 O's.
Saturday - 4.76 O's
Today - 5.44 O's Hawaii's are back....

legoman62

Oscargrouch wrote: »

I work that out as £187.5p O's (excluding time to go)
Mine is ££188.22 O's with 11 days to go. (22nd). :beer:

Yeah...we're close, but you will pip me + and you have a few extra days to go too. Well done:beer:

4.5 O's yesterday:D