Wednesday, August 24, 2005
St Swithin's Day results (40 days on)
Weather on St Swithin's Day: dry
Had St Swithin been correct, we should just have enjoyed 40 consecutive days of glorious sunshine. But no. Since July 15th London has had (roughly speaking) a dry week followed by a wet fortnight followed by a dry week followed by an unsettled fortnight. The final results are as follows:
Number of dry days since July 15th: 20
Number of wet days since July 15th: 20
Which just goes to show that:
a) St Swithin was wrong (as he has been every year since 971 AD)
b) It's been wetter than normal (on average one third of days in London are wet, not one half)
c) This wasn't the best week to take time off work (it's raining again today).
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