In ‘breaking news’ last night it was announced that this second quarter – April to June – has been the wettest since reconds began in 1910. I think we could have worked that out for ourselves, given the appalling run of weather we have had for the past three months. It makes me more glad than ever to have been to the Texas Star Party this year, although thinking back to that does put into sharp focus just how utterly shit our climate can be is and what UK astronomers are missing. I wrote a while back about how our climate isn’t *that* bad, depending on where you are in the country, with the south east being better than the north west, but at the moment I feel like a prat to have written it.

Reading on Facebook and Cloudy Nights boasts/moans about hot weather and sunshine elsewhere does nothing to dispel the gloom either.