August, the month that everybody associates
with summer, sunshine and the holiday season. Lyneham experienced
a fairly warm month and had 20 days without rainfall. The
total rain for the month was 41mm which was 72% of an August
average (mean 61.8mm). The mean average temperature for
August has been recorded at 20.3°C and this month we
experienced a slightly higher average temperatures of 21.4°C.
Some would not believed it, but we did had 237 hours of
sunshine for the month, which is over 30 hours more that
the mean. The highest recorded daily sunshine total for
the month was on the 8th. The record for the amount of sunshine
was documented in 1989 where we experienced 15.5 hours of
glorious sunshine. The highest temperature recorded at Lyneham
was 34.9°C in 1990, compared to 26.8°C this month
on the 30th. Seven years later the highest night minimum
temperature recorded was 19.5°C. |
