A bit of a recap this post. I had been saying that it had been cold with persistent E or NE winds this spring and early summer, which rather spoiled the sailing. I got notified of a feature of of the Met office that I hadn’t been aware off before and I can recommend anyone with an interest in the weather to tune into this. It is called:
Strangely I can’t find in on the Met Office site itself!! just on its You tube channel.
The one at the beginning of June had a very good explanation of why it had been cold on the East coast and included this rather striking graphic.
So it wasn’t just my imagination- it had been an unusually cold.