So much for the weather improving when the schools went back because today is absolutely disgusting and this week is looking to turn out as atrocious as anything in this cancerous write-off abomination of a summer
Cool, dull drizzly,write-off easterly filth. Zero sunshine, murk, 1.2C diurnal range. Pretty much need the lights on indoors already. Never ever in the past did things ever get this dire with more or less complete absence of temperature variation throughout the day and appalling light levels in what is laughably described as a summer month
Yes, the summers of that period were bad but TBH there isn't much difference between it raining at 19c and raining at 16c, you still can't have a bbq! This summer with its excessive rainfall and cloud compares with any crap summer from the1960s
And in the 1950s and 60s they had plenty of cold winters to compensate!
I think the weather up north since 2011 is about as miserable and depressing as any in the last 200 years and I certainly don't feel lucky for living through it!!!
Andy
Completely agree that this grotesque decade is without parallel throughout recorded history for its sheer unrelenting awfulness. Dire snowless winters and horrifically dull and wet summers year in year out.
This decade has the worst summers in recorded history and the worst winters. It’s just unreal. The summers of the 60s were most definitely not this poor. As dull but not as wet whereas the 50s were as wet but not as dull. There was at least one good summer month in most years of the 50s and 60s whereas the vast majority of the past decade has consisted of three months of rubbish. The 1920s, 1930s and 1990s were also nowhere near as frost free and snowless as this repulsive decade of endless autumnal gunk.
In addition, Summer temperatures today are certainly not warmer. They have been either average or below average for the past decade except 2013. The average summer maxima were the same here in the mid-19th century, when records were first kept, but the station was closer to the sea then so in reality is probably about 0.5C cooler now.
Moreover, because it is so persistently cloudy and rains almost every day the maxima are attained for a far shorter period than in the past. So many days recently it seems to reach around 18-19C for less than an hour when the rest of the day is nearer 15/16C and who could forget the absolute horror show joke that was the warmest day of 2017. 25.7C reached at noon but 15C and rain by evening. Toxic rubbish and not what the warmest day of the year ever brought in the past.
Another summer month so crap that it can't even reach 22C - a fairly modest threshold but reached only once in the past two months. 10 years now since even 24C was reached in August when that used to be average for the hottest day of the month. The lack of warmth is just beyond a joke and matched only by the lack of cold come winter
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