Most days in July were cooler than normal. The first chart shows cold days persisted for more than a fortnight. The coldest, on the 16th, reached only 10.5 degrees, which is 5 degrees below normal. However, the weather was mainly pleasant, with more fine days and fewer cloudy days than usual.

Night-time temperatures were . . .

Most days in July were cooler than normal. The first chart shows cold days persisted for more than a fortnight. The coldest, on the 16th, reached only 10.5 degrees, which is 5 degrees below normal. However, the weather was mainly pleasant, with more fine days and fewer cloudy days than usual.

Night-time temperatures were normal for July, hovering around plus two degrees. There were warm nights at each end of the month, including one 7 degrees above normal. In the middle, there were thirteen nights in a row below 2.2 degrees in the thermometer screen, the limit for frosts on the grass. The lowest temperature for the month was minus 4.4 degrees. There were 17 frosts in total; far fewer than the 28 frosts of July 2002.

The second chart shows that this July had colder daytime maximum temperatures than any July from 1999. Night-time minimum temperatures were also a bit on the low side. July 2002 stands out from the others. It had by far the lowest night-time temperatures in these years: three degrees below the average.

Apart from frosty 2002, July in Manilla seems to have become steadily cooler over these nine years. In the first year, July 1999 had the highest maximum, the highest mean, and the second-highest minimum. In the last year, July 2007 had the lowest maximum, the second-lowest mean, and the second-lowest minimum.