Satellite looked a typical disgusting post-2006 summer mess this morning with a massive band of cloud over the UK and only SE England and NW Scotland getting any sun. The cloud moved south eastwards but the clearance seemed to stop just to the NW of here. Cloud all day pretty much with very limited sun again and it's just started raining again
This will go down as one of the most abysmal ends to summer I can recall. Only about 2 or 3 evenings in more than a fortnight when it has been possible to do anything outdoors.
Yesterday was total garbage with cloud and 19C instead of the 24-25C and sun we would have got from such a set-up in the past when the fronts sat over the NW Highlands and Northern Isles not the whole of Scotland. Time after time we see this crap since 1998. The most desperate time for summer warmth and heat in recorded history.
10 years since 24C was reached in August here. 20 years since it reached 80F. It’s beyond comprehension. Totally without precedent in modern times. Three out of four years now it hasn’t even reached 22C – the worst run since there were three in a row from 1949-51.
Decadal Maximum Temperatures for August at Dyce:
1950s: 27.2C
1960s: 26.8C
1970s: 28.4C
1980s: 26.8C
1990s: 29.7C
2000s: 26.0C
2010s: 23.7C
One of the readings sticks out like a sore thumb. So far removed from the rest it’s unreal and 23.7C is not just the highest since 2010 but the highest since 2007 so a full decade.
Has become almost impossible to see higher than low 20s in Scotland in August whereas this was certainly not the case in the past. Even in the dismal Augusts of the 1960s far higher temperatures were being recorded in Scotland than today:
1960: 78F(25.6C), 3rd (Renfrew & Pitlochry)
1961: 28.9C, 29th (Kinlochewe)
1962: 21.2C, 20th (Kinloss)
1963: 26.1C, 1st (Ardtalnaig)
1964: 27.8C, 3rd (Strachan)
1965: 25.0C, 12th and 13th (Poolewe)
1966: 22.8C, 18th (Dinnet), 25th (Kinlochewe), 30th (Sloy)
1967: 25.6C, 21st (Grantown-on-Spey)
1968: 25.6C, 23rd (Kelso), 27th (Glenlee & Dinnet)
1969: 27.8C, 8th (Nairn & Forres)
In this lousy decade, only 2016 has managed to reach 26C somewhere in Scotland with 2010, 2011, 2014 and now 2017 all failing to reach 25C compared to just 1962 and 1966 in the 60s.
2013 may have failed as well but can’t find the highest as the Met Office Monthly Summaries are absolute rubbish compared to those prior to 1993 which were comprehensively produced and always gave the highest temperatures in England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. 24C at Aboyne on the 15th is one of the highest I can find so highly probable that 5 out of 8 have failed to hit 25C compared to just 2 out of 10 in the 1960s.
The 1990s predictions of increasing and more intense heatwaves couldn’t be more wrong and the clowns, who made them, should be made to answer for why their rotten predictions have failed to come off but they just bury their heads in the sand and pretend that dodgy heat island readings in the SE are representative of the whole country. Of course we have our own rotten stations up here as well. Perhaps Inverailort has reached 27C this month
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