Our columnist Andrew Gordon takes a look at the latest forecast...
We, the people of this green and pleasant land, are more preoccupied with the weather than any other nation on Earth.
That's why if there is so much as a hint of hot weather, it makes front page news. Anticipated storms or droughts tend to make good newspaper copy too.
It was no surprise then that our local daily splashed yesterday with Get Set! Summer is back on Track after the Met Office predicted warm and sunny weather for the rest of July.
That's the same Met Office remember, which only a few weeks ago, warned of a decade of wet and dreary summers.
Every day, BBC Radio Pasty devotes a great deal of airtime to the weather, with weather-watchers up and down the county filing reports on what the weather is doing in their town or village. Why do they do this?
Only people in say, Altarnun, would be interested in what the weather is doing there, and unless they are lying in bed with the curtains drawn, they would know full well if it is overcast, wet, or God forbid, sunny, in Altarnun.
But no, we all listen intently to discover what the morning's temperature happens to be in Altarnun, because we are all obsessed with the weather.
If it's wet, or cold for prolonged periods, a cloud of gloom and despondency hangs over us, and we all consider emigrating to warmer climes.
On the other hand, if we have a few days of warm and sunny weather, our mood swings the other way. We are happy, we smile at people in the street, whether we know them or not, and we think there is no better place to live on planet Earth. This doesn't happen too often in Cornwall.
We are lumbered with a wet climate, or at least we have been during the summer months for many years now. But if we complain about the rain, have a thought for the Irish, living in north or south, because it is forever raining there.
But let us all look forward to a hot and sunny July, which according to the Met Office is due to start on Friday. Good news for the tourist industry, good news for our farmers, good news for us.
Of course, if it becomes too hot, unlikely as that is, we then complain about that too, but not too much because warm weather in Cornwall never lasts that long these days.
I'm old enough to remember the longest hot summer in recent history in 1976. Phew, that was a scorcher.
It went on and on and on. I recall spending a day at a Test match at the Oval and watching the great West Indian bowlers of that period ripping through the England batting line-up. I also recall sharing many a tin of Red Stripe lager with the West Indian supporters, and paying for it with a soar head and heat stroke the following day.
The heat hasn't bothered me since, at least not in this country, because we have not felt it or seen too much scorching sun for decades.
This is all to do with climate change, say scientists. It is all to do with the Gulf Stream going AWOL. on occasion, it is all to do with our weather getting messed up.
The Met Office forecasters are predicting something of a flaming July, but are not going beyond that and into August, when most people go on holiday and most tourists head this way to Cornwall.
August? Expect torrential rain; cold winds and floods. Floods you say? Well, remember Boscastle – that happened in August.
In August we may end up feeling miserable, but for now, let us rejoice in the thought of hot weather for the next few days at least.
