This means that unless something drastic happens during the last two weeks of the meteorological summer to change that, it is now looking likely that our highest temperature of the year won't even have occurred during the actual summer, and that shows just how poor this summer has been.

 

That's what happened last year; the warmest day of 2016 (I mean in a UK context rather than in a Scottish one) occured in the second week of last September if my memory serves me well. Not sure when the hottest day was during the summer of 2016 either in Scotland or anywhere else in the UK, but I do remember a short but notable blast of heat which affected the whole of the UK just after mid-July last year (19th/20th July 2016 I think it was) before the inevitable thundery breakdown occured and we were back to square one.

The thing that has made this summer worse in my area than even the poor efforts we saw in 2015 and 2016 was that early on in both of those years, we did have at least one week of mostly good or decent summer weather at the start of the meteorogical summer season. The worst weather last year and in 2015 was during the time of the school summer holidays. This year we didn't even get a decent opening to the summer as happened in the last two years and in my area we haven't had so much as a fully settled week since the first half of May.

Must do better, A LOT better next summer!

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These last few days have been better. Still not stunners, but about as good as August seems to bring nowadays with average temperatures and parlty sunny afternoons. Still looking like a shocker of a Friday on the way, however.

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We haven't had a single 20c here so far this month. I know that I am at elevation and sure low ground will have seen 20c several times but that is still very poor. The August average in my back garden should be around 20c and not one day has reached that mark.

Hadn't realised but that's true here too with high of 19.3C so far for August.
Despite our altitude we are actually on the downslopes and often get relatively high temperatures in a westerly flow.
We are usually praying for rain this time of year too, but not this year with frequent generous waterings since last week of June.
June started and ended very wet with just three very warm days at mid-month, highest was 27.1C on the 18th.
It is hard to believe that will likely be the only almost hot spell this year.

For the first time in many years it has been all but impossible to make any proper hay without expensively wrapping half made stuff as haylage.
Those who persevered with attempting to get hay dry enough have now abandoned it and there are at least six fields just lying there rotting away locally. 
This will have repercussions next year with weeds such as docks invading bare patches where the material has killed of sward below.

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Hadn't realised but that's true here too with high of 19.3C so far for August.
Despite our altitude we are actually on the downslopes and often get relatively high temperatures in a westerly flow.
We are usually praying for rain this time of year too, but not this year with frequent generous waterings since last week of June.
June started and ended very wet with just three very warm days at mid-month, highest was 27.1C on the 18th.
It is hard to believe that will likely be the only almost hot spell this year.

For the first time in many years it has been all but impossible to make any proper hay without expensively wrapping half made stuff as haylage.
Those who persevered with attempting to get hay dry enough have now abandoned it and there are at least six fields just lying there rotting away locally. 
This will have repercussions next year with weeds such as docks invading bare patches where the material has killed of sward below.

It a shame how hard to get a decent warm weather up north because it not like in the 85-90 period when I was in Boston Spa, near Wetherby, we always have heatwaves in between poor weather and often see 28-30C there every summer month.

Today, we had a nice start to the day during which time, I managed to go out for a long walk which I later aborted as it suddenly clouded over with some fairly heavy rain setting in yet again from 11:30am this morning. There was always going to be some uncertainties over the timing of this rain but in the end, that rain didn't even manage to hold off until midday in this part of the world. Now, it is still raining (although it did stop for an hour or so this afternoon) and it has turned into yet another miserable afternoon with a temperature of just 16C (I'm just surprised that we've only had 0.8 mm of rain so far today, according to SEPA).

If we can avoid the showers during tomorrow as we managed to do yesterday, I might be able to get out for a walk tomorrow without getting wet. However, with more rain to come from a further secondary feature during Friday followed by the remnants of Hurricane Gert on Sunday, my prospects for being able to do any more walking during this week are not going to be looking good at all, if we end up getting those showers which are forecast for both tomorrow and Saturday, and that is just another part of this sad and sorry tale which has been this so-called 'summer' of 2017.

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Finally managed 20.6c here today so the 20c mark is broken. Agree re the high rainfall amounts. Normally my garden is in desperate need of water due to the number of trees but not this year.

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Currently enjoying 37C and blue skies in Edinburgh

Don't believe the fake weather sites which say I've come inside because of showers and 35mph gusts which have covered my garden in so many leaves and twigs we might as well just zip straight to October and have bloody well done with it. Go on summer, p*ss off.

Currently enjoying 37C and blue skies in Edinburgh

Don't believe the fake weather sites which say I've come inside because of showers and 35mph gusts which have covered my garden in so many leaves and twigs we might as well just zip straight to October and have bloody well done with it. Go on summer, p*ss off.

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August is turning into another dire month here. Raining practically every single day and I am sick to death of it 

Just four days without measurable rainfall so far, despite sunshine being above average. It's basically the same every day. Some sun, some rain, average temperatures. Haven't reached 22C yet and weekends have been poor, failing to even reach 18C

Worst summer since 2012 for sure and had it been 2007 would have been the worst since 1987. Even 1998 was better than this due to a fine end to June and a fine spell in August.

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A moan and a gloat.
Still not reached 20 C in Edinburgh 16 days into August with rain on 13 days....however I'm down in my native Yorkshire this week Mon-Fri, in Otley, Wharfedale to be precise. I've experienced 3 mostly sunny days 20 C+ with the bonus of a night time thunderstorm waking me up at 0100. Haven't seen night time lightning for years!

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Hadn't realised but that's true here too with high of 19.3C so far for August.
Despite our altitude we are actually on the downslopes and often get relatively high temperatures in a westerly flow.
We are usually praying for rain this time of year too, but not this year with frequent generous waterings since last week of June.
June started and ended very wet with just three very warm days at mid-month, highest was 27.1C on the 18th.
It is hard to believe that will likely be the only almost hot spell this year.

For the first time in many years it has been all but impossible to make any proper hay without expensively wrapping half made stuff as haylage.
Those who persevered with attempting to get hay dry enough have now abandoned it and there are at least six fields just lying there rotting away locally. 
This will have repercussions next year with weeds such as docks invading bare patches where the material has killed of sward below.

It would seem from a lot of what I have read on this thread and others in this forum over the past couple of months that the only areas of the UK where summer ever got going to any meaningful extent this year were the counties from the Midlands southwards, and then that was during June and the first half of July. Seems that everywhere has been in the same unsettled boat over the past four weeks or so.

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22.4C currently, making it the warmest day since 19 July! It just shows how poor the last 4 weeks have been for summer weather!

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It would seem from a lot of what I have read on this thread and others in this forum over the past couple of months that the only areas of the UK where summer ever got going to any meaningful extent this year were the counties from the Midlands southwards, and then that was during June and the first half of July. Seems that everywhere has been in the same unsettled boat over the past four weeks or so.

Past 8 days have seen 2 lots of rain about a week apart, and one of those fell overnight. To start with temps were below par by day & night but gradually over the last 5 days have by day returned to normal August temps with one day even hitting 24C. The nights have been up & down still with some chilly 10-13C overnight low's, but still with a couple normal and even one warm one - last night's low was just 18.2C. 

I see Edinburgh has at last hit 20 C.

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This month has to go down as one of the most excruciating of all time.

More complete and utter crap today. 21.6C and sunny during working hours turning to cloud and now more rain as it gets to the evening 

There aren't words to describe how insufferable this is. Beyond vile 

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I am on holiday at home in Worcestershire this week and I have no complaints about the weather. The days have been mostly fine and sunny and the wet weather has had the good grace to come overnight. Chucked it down at 04:00 this morning, but by 10:00 the sun was coming out and the rest of the day was warm and fine - managed to get a tree felled in the garden. Likewise on Tuesday - managed to get the hedge cut and cleared up in the sunshine and yesterday we took the grandchildren to Warwick Castle for a day out and again it was warm and sunny.

So no moaning from me at the moment.

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Today has to be as bad as a summer's day can possibly get here, as it is raining yet again with a temperature of just 14C, which is absolutely abysmal for this time of year (once again, this is yet another day which is actually no warmer than last Christmas Day).

Furthermore, I was caught in a really torrential downpour in the latter part of this morning. The actual rainfall figures for Edinburgh Gogarbank for today, aren't actually as high as I would have expected after witnessing such a downpour, but I'm pretty certain that we will see that official confirmation by the end of today, that we have now already had more than our average rainfall (with the remnants of Hurricane Gert still to come on top of that, at the beginning of next week), which means that we can safely say now that this is officially yet another wetter than average summer month, which also confirms that all three summer months are wetter than average this year.

With today's absolutely dire and vile conditions, autumn has well and truly arrived rather early (although the entire year seems to be one big eternal autumn these days), although what's the betting that summer then finally decides to make an appearance once we get into September, and the actual start of the meteorological autumn.

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I'm still down in Yorkshire John and its another sunny day with just the odd light shower and 17 C instead of 20-23 C over the last 4 days. Feeling pleasant though, its another world down here....you just need to get south of the Border!
I'm back up to eternal Autumn tomorrow 😣

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Utterly disgusting day. Temperature stuck on 12C, heavy rain and thick gloom. At one point every bit as dark as a bad day around the winter solstice

Now almost at the monthly average rainfall and the next week is looking so vile that it will safely tip this August into horror show category. 

 A horrible cool, cloudy and wet month to conclude one of the most dismal summers of all time

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I'm still down in Yorkshire John and its another sunny day with just the odd light shower and 17 C instead of 20-23 C over the last 4 days. Feeling pleasant though, its another world down here....you just need to get south of the Border!
I'm back up to eternal Autumn tomorrow 😣

Utterly disgusting day. Temperature stuck on 12C, heavy rain and thick gloom. At one point every bit as dark as a bad day around the winter solstice

Now almost at the monthly average rainfall and the next week is looking so vile that it will safely tip this August into horror show category. 

 A horrible cool, cloudy and wet month to conclude one of the most dismal summers of all time

Virtually no sunshine here though, as we return back to that permacast hell which we have been used to throughout this summer despite the forecast of sunny intervals in between the showers. Rather surprisingly though, the figures for Edinburgh Gogarbank according to SEPA show that only a further 0.2 mm of rain fell after my last report for that over on the August Precipitation Watch thread, which still leaves us 0.2 mm short of the 1981-2010 monthly average for August.

With such a poor day today, I really expected to be going over that average and we did get quite a bit of rain here during today, so I have no idea why those figures for Edinburgh Gogarbank haven't come out to be higher for today, than what is actually being shown. Tomorrow's forecast is for showers, but I have noticed recently that when a forecast for showers has been given, we have tended not to get them, and the forecast does state that there will be fewer showers around during tomorrow, than what there has been today.

On top of that, the arrival of the remnants of Hurricane Gert is being delayed by further all the time by the forecast models. That was originally going to happen on Sunday but now, the BBC forecasts have delayed that until Monday evening with some models even indicating that this system might not ever reach us at all, and be kept to the west of us by high pressure building to our east. When you take all of that into consideration, we could still have quite a long wait yet for that official confirmation of this being a wetter than average month, even though we are really close to that average already.

Furthermore and as bad as the weather has been today, we can at least say that it's not been as bad as it has been further north where according to the rain radar maps, that rain has persisted throughout the entire day. That is something which I knew that Richard from Aberdeen would have a lot to talk about, so I'm not surprised that his post has just come in at the very time whilst I was putting this one together.

 

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