Compared to recent years, it was the sunniest September since 2012.
"It doesn't feel like it's exceptional compared to recent years," said Kate Lewthwaite, project manager for the Woodland Trust's Nature's Calendar.
The electricity margin has decreased compared to recent years, but the outlook remains manageable and well within the reliability standard set by government".
"A lot of the orders for the retail season are being placed now, and compared to recent years, they are weak," said Chris Woodward, the vice president for container services at Ryder System, the big logistics company.
Heather Sohl, chief advisor on species at WWF-UK, said: "The slight decrease in rhinos poached is somewhat of a relief compared to recent years when we've seen nothing but increases, however, no poaching is acceptable".
Additionally, dynamical disturbances to the polar cap region during spring were aided by the prevailing phase of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) which was strongly negative (westward) and favouring the poleward propagation of heat flux anomalies; these disturbances resulted in the steady erosion of the vortex and caused it to breakdown relatively early compared to recent years.
"With economic growth stronger than expected during the first quarter, a buoyant jobs market and people generally better off, you would expect the market to continue to improve throughout the rest of 2015, if at a more moderate rate compared to recent years".
A spokesperson at the Met Office gave The Independent a rundown on the week ahead as we approach the summer solstice, and how the start of this June compares to recent years: "It's not been the most Summer-y start to June, in the first few weeks we had a nasty bout of low pressure coming through which was a little wet and windy.
