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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social

Nights were warm (mean minimum 13.8°C) with a minimum dropping below 10°C only once - 9.2°C on the 22nd. Warmest night a sticky 18.2°C on the 15th. A very warm & dry spell (0.2mm rain) from 11th-17th saw maximums of 28.1, 29.4, 21.6 (but only dropping to 18.2 at night), 25.8, 27.5, 24.7, 24.5°C. 2/4

daily temperature statistics for Dorchester, August 2025 me standing in the ditch I've just spent 4 days in the heat excavating. Winterborne Kingston dig July 2025.
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social

83.5mm rain fell in August, with 81mm falling in 4 days 27-30th. Wettest day was 28th, when 61.2mm fell in a tropical downpour in the early morning. 40mm fell in 1.5 hours (see graph - green is mm/hr). Otherwise it was a very dry August with 20 dry days (same as 2022), with 6 days of <1mm rain. 3/4

Graph showing the tropical downpour in the early morning of the 28th August. Cumulative rainfall in blue, rainfall per hour in green.
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social

For the Summer over all, mean Temp was 18.6°C, just a shade cooler than 2022 (18.7°C), with rainfall at 176.5mm compared with 51mm for 2022. Again the total is very skewed by those 4 days at the end of August. Interestingly (for me anyway) at no point did we breach 30°C, unlike 2020, 21 & 22. 4/4

Dorset food fayre Poundbury 2nd August. Great Field meadows, Poundbury. August 2025
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