Another weird year

For the second year in a row, the warmest temperature of the year was not recorded in the summer. In 2010 the year's hottest temperature was in May; this year it was in late September (that is, assuming no higher temperature is on the cards for the rest of the year). Unlike the rest of the UK, there were no records broken for hottest October temperature since for the past couple of days it's been thoroughly cloudy and rainy up here. Before the global warming crowd jumps in, however, it must be remembered that the three traditional summer months of June, July and August were all distinctly colder than normal.