July carried on the bad work, but rallied at the end, with fine weather in the southern half of the country that lasted through the Olympics.
It added other problems included new competition, unseasonable weather in the first half of 2000, and more recently, the tightening of trade credit and curtailment of inventory shipments.
It announced full year like for like sales fell by 2.9%, hit by cold weather in the first half and the poor consumer environment.
This storm system had, in part, a large effect on the weather in the entire eastern half of the country.
This means that it is unlikely to come unscrewed 300 yards along the first bumpy road you take it down, and almost certainly won't split in half when the weather gets cold.
They were T2's, ships hastily built of inferior metal during World War II and sometimes known as "serial sinkers" for their tendency to snap in half during cold weather.
As an example, R4 Today presenters can summarise the weather for their transmission area (UK) in half a dozen words.
Iraq is weathering its worst eruption of violence in half a decade, raising fears that the country is heading back toward the widespread sectarian fighting that peaked in 2006 and 2007.
In 2013, a survey conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication found that 85% of Americans had experienced one or more types of extreme weather in the past year, with over half specifically citing extreme heat.
However, the company has been struggling in its largest market, the U.S., mainly due to tough weather conditions in the first half that stalled economic activity.
