On Sunday, 9 August 2015 10:54:50 UTC+1, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 01:20:57 -0700 (PDT)
Graham Easterling wrote:

2015 must be one of (if not 'the') most SE/NW summer on record. I'll
be interesting to see the variance charts.

I reckon 1968 beat it but the opposite way round to normal, the NW
having been hot and dry whilst the SE was cold and wet.

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I'd say 1968 was the more unusual in that everything was upside down whereas this year is a gross exaggeration of the normal. The summer of 1968 was said to be due in part to the large amount of unmelted snow in NW Russia. There is one strange similarity between 1968 and 2015 in that 1st July was an isolated very hot day. In 1968 it gave some good thunderstorms with egg-sized hail. I think I found 1968 more interesting despite its awfulness at times.
Bob Prichard once remarked that if 1968 had occurred in modern times there would have been widespread hysteria, particularly in the media.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.