OOP weather

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90117

-<president0084 at y...> wrote:
The drought can be explained away by the fact that surrey is in the 
South of England which normally has draught over the summer. 
Scotland 
(Hogwarts)is in the very north of the island hence generally colder.
> 
> Geoff:
> Actually, Surrey does not /normally/ have a drought. (One of the 
> driest areas of the UK is East Anglia). The most serious general 
> droughts were in 1976 and then, there was long spell of fine, dry, 
> weather in the latter part of the summer of 1994 and then, as OOTP 
> suggests, there was a long hot summer in 1995 which was fairly wide 
> spread throughout the UK.I think the references in the book refer to 
> later in the Autumn when the weather had changed in general. 
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Carol:
I'm not British, but I was in England (London and Oxford) for the one
and only time in July and August 1994. "Knowing" that England was
foggy and rainy, I had lugged along my umbrella. In the five weeks I
was there, I used it only once. England was suffering from what it
considered a heat wave (almost no rain and temperatures in the 80s
Fahrenheit). People were standing on the rim of the fountain in
Trafalgar Square trying to cool themselves with the spray. I don't
know whether the weather had gone back to normal by September, but the
conditions JKR describes in the opening chapters of OoP are exactly as
I experienced them during my visit.

Carol, who lives in Tucson and knows what heat really is