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Weather for Saturday 6th August 2022.

Below are my latest thoughts on the Weather from Friday Evening 5th Aug issued at 17.00 hrs.

There is no rain in my forecast but plenty of sunshine and the temperature will reach 28C by Sunday afternoon. There will be sunny spells and some fair weather cumulus by afternoon on both Saturday and Sunday. The wind will be light with sea breezes along the coast where it will be several degrees lower but strong sunshine here. The weather is going to become hotter next week and there is no immediate prospect of rain so a water shortage is going to be an increasing problem. 

At my Heath Common weather station rain has only amounted to 20mm or so since the first week or so of June, this is about 12 per cent of the average rainfall in this time.

Don't forget those thirsty plants in the garden or on patios and window boxes. Recycle water that you use when washing fruit and vegetables or when you wash hands etc. Water in rivers, lakes and reservoirs is depleting raidly now. 

 At 17.30 hrs GMT on 5th August at Heath Common: Current temps: 22.2C. Weather: Fine.  Air pressure: 1024 hPa :Rising more slowly.   Rainfall so far this month to 17.30hrs GMT today: 0 mm.

Stay safe, stay well.  Listen out for me next this Sunday 7th August on BBC Radio Surrey and Sussex at 13.10 hrs on the 'Dig It' show looking back on July's Weather and ahead for August.  If you have a weather question contact the programme or here on this site's contact page or what about a pack of magazines as a present.

Issue 43 of Weather eye magazine have been sent  to subscribers. I am now starting Issue 44. I do need articles which so far are slow to come in.

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The Chipstead Valley weather station lies within a dry, chalkland valley on the dip slope of the North Downs. The valley is around 60 metres deep.

Read about the Chipstead Valley Station

 This day July 15th 1949

On this St. Swithun’s Day severe storms in the Midlands and East Anglia. At March in Cambridgeshire 105mm of rain fell in 105 minutes. There was widespread flooding with the Fire Brigade pumping out many properties. Fields were flooded and crops of potatoes ruined and it was especially bad at Doddington. The river rose over a foot remarkable for a summer month when the level normally falls.

In 1881 the heatwave reached a peak with 35C in London.

In the remarkable summer of 1976 a Minister of Drought was appointed- Denis Howell.

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