Sounds pretty dire Richard, hope it picks up there soon. I have to admit I did have Renton's voice-over going through my head reading that, with Underworld providing the soundtrack.

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Sounds pretty dire Richard, hope it picks up there soon. I have to admit I did have Renton's voice-over going through my head reading that, with Underworld providing the soundtrack.

😂😂😂😂

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Sounds pretty dire Richard, hope it picks up there soon. I have to admit I did have Renton's voice-over going through my head reading that, with Underworld providing the soundtrack.

8.4 hours sun in the past week. Dire doesn't begin to describe it.

Contrast this with 62.5 hours in the week 12th -18th July when I was still in Greece. The minute I arrived back so did the gloom and it's just hung about like a bad smell. An absolute joke. 

Sick fed up of always missing out on the good stuff and having to endure the permacast hell. This was never a problem in the past when we actually had a changeable climate. Nowadays it's a case of all the sun coming at once then followed by these horrific periods of endless gloom

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Its funny the perception that this has been a dry year is not borne out if you take the rainfall figures at face value. Only April has been a really dry month, this year so far.

June and now July are wetter than average for England and Wales

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Its funny the perception that this has been a dry year is not borne out if you take the rainfall figures at face value. Only April has been a really dry month, this year so far.

June and now July are wetter than average for England and Wales

 

Is it not though that we get less rain days during the summer but that the rain we do get is more intensive. I have no stats to back that up but it is my impression....

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I am still in the Scottish Borders, but will be heading back up to Edinburgh later on today.

I have to say that the weather here has been rather disappointing while I have been here, with not even a single bright and sunny start to any day whilst I have been here. Until that really miserable weekend, it had been mostly dry during the day although with the usual grey skies, but it had rained at some point during every single day (usually first thing in the morning) whilst I was here, right up until Monday which was only our first completely dry day during my time here.

Then came that really miserable weekend. I was at an outdoor event at my parents' local bowling club which would have been really good for the kids if only the weather had actually behaved itself. Sadly though, it rained on and off for most of the time during that event to the extent that a few people were surprised that this event wasn't cancelled altogether because of the conditions. This event did go ahead, but in a very much scaled back form, with a much poorer turnout than what would have been the case, so the weather once again largely spoiled yet another decent outdoor event and I'm afraid, that this has pretty much been the story of this summer here in Scotland.

Sunday then brought the usual grey skies although it was dry during the morning before the rain set in very heavily at around lunchtime, continuing until later on that night when it eventually became a lot drier. Monday was much better, but started off on a dull note once again. The Sun did come out for a while, thus allowing me to have a short period of being able to sit outside in the garden. However, that is the only such period which I was able to get as we were well and truly back into that same old permacast by Monday night.

Tuesday was then supposed to be the best day of the week according to the forecast but although it did stay dry, the Sun failed to come out at any point in the day, apart from a very brief period just before sunset. That then left us with three out of four days with little or no sunshine which for this time of year, is very poor fare indeed especially since we have often had better sunshine totals during the depths of winter, than what we are seeing just now.

This morning started off on a dry note but under the usual permacast but surprise, surprise, it is raining yet again now. We at least had a run of fairly decent Wednesdays up until now which had been better than what had been forecast, but this morning's bad weather has now even thrown that well and truly out of the window as this really miserable summer continues unabated with no signs (in the short-term models at least), of the situation improving any time soon as will continue to be the case as long as the Azores High continues to be posted missing as it appears to be just now, or too far away to be able to help us in any way (that in itself, just seems to be typical of our summers in this part of the world these days).

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As bad as it gets today, with persistent heavy rain.

Luckily, I had yesterday as my day off to look after the sprogs. Total contrast in terms of weather; a beautiful day with temps around 22c and unbroken sunshine from late-morning onwards.

 

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This utter joke of  a summer was beyond salvation on 6^th June and just continues to get worse and worse. A write-off dark, gloomy, windy, wet horror day to follow days on end of sunless, permacast hell. Like nothing on earth we ever got in summer before 2007. Just 5 minutes sun so far this week with appalling light levels for the most part. Wind relentless from either the N or E for the past 8 days.

Just feels as though we’ve missed out 3 months and gone straight to the end of October and even if we had this would still rate as one of the most disgusting and vile spells I could recall for the time of year.

Unspeakably bad and every bit as horrible and depressing as the absolute worst of summers 2007 and 2012. Makes June seem decent by comparison.

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Its funny the perception that this has been a dry year is not borne out if you take the rainfall figures at face value. Only April has been a really dry month, this year so far.

June and now July are wetter than average for England and Wales

Don’t understand the perception that this has been a dry year. It’s been yet another foul year here – the 4^th in succession to be wetter than average.

Well above average rainfall courtesy of an exceptionally wet period from late January to early March, a record breaking wet June and a July on course to be yet another horrible, wet, dull summer month. January and May the only dry months so far but only average sunshine in May so January the only sunny and dry month which is par for the course in this godawful era.

Looking odds on to me that this disaster of a summer will end up as the wettest since 2012 across the UK and will possibly even surpass that in Eastern Scotland

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Don’t understand the perception that this has been a dry year. It’s been yet another foul year here – the 4^th in succession to be wetter than average.

Well above average rainfall courtesy of an exceptionally wet period from late January to early March, a record breaking wet June and a July on course to be yet another horrible, wet, dull summer month. January and May the only dry months so far but only average sunshine in May so January the only sunny and dry month which is par for the course in this godawful era.

Looking odds on to me that this disaster of a summer will end up as the wettest since 2012 across the UK and will possibly even surpass that in Eastern Scotland

If you look at the met office stats for Scotland January, April and May were drier than average. Feb and March were pretty much average. Only June was significantly wetter than average. The problem we seem to have had over the past few years is that you can get a period of significant rain which skews the figure and makes it look like overall it's wetter than average throughout the whole year. 

 

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It's the school holidays, many folk planning days out and UK Holidays, it was always going to go pear shaped.

...Blame the kids 

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Thought we'd get our first overhead thunder of the year from that squall line just after 10pm last night. All was looking good. Plenty of strikes to the West of Manchester. By the time it got here the lightning had died out!

Normally the opposite in that squalls pep up as the slam in to the Pennine. The wait goes on.

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After an early fluttering of her eyelashes and cheeky flash of her drawers, this summer is turning into a bit of a crapfest.

The last good August was 2003, and this one looks like shaping up to be another 'distinctly average' one, with the first part at least set to be disappointingly changeable and lacking warmth.

We were toying with the idea of a long weekend down in Devon from the 10th, but as it stands we're not going to bother. No point without settled weather and temps comfortably into the 20's.

 

 

 

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Despite some brightness around, currently it's only 17C with quite a strong breeze after heavy rain this morning. Very poor temperatures for what is supposed to be high summer.

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Yes summer appears to have gone for a burton at the moment. Signs of a brief plume early next week but generally very poor outlook and August looks set to be somewhat disappointing yet again. No doubt it'll return to blue skies and sunshine in September and October. I feel the seasons have shifted.

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Average rainfall and sunshine for June and above average temperatures, and I would think similar for July, so a decent summer for me so far.....certainly not a poor one.

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I notice any forecasts in here or at Met/BBC kept saying sunshine and showers?  Excuse me I haven't see once happening which they are poorly wrong forecast for 2 weeks now. It been mostly overcast and light to moderate rain falls, no showers so far because my strong belief on rain showers is you expect 8-10 hours of sunshine which is around half of max 16 hours in summer and beautiful cloud formation like you see in April.

Also many saying rain or showers so that very poor with today technology as they have no clue what it going to be.  I am sure in 3rd world countries would already would know if going to rain, showers or thunderstorms that it.  Forecasts in Toronto is more accurate and give you percentage so you know the more % the more rain you get.

Temperatures recording had stalled the minute this nonsense started.  I only started recording from late May to mid July.  I still can't get back to the full time weather hobby like before which I stopped in 2012 after runs of poor years.  Only part time when normal real weather action occurs.

Persistant

Almost everday day

Nasty rain and cloud and not one decent

Thunderstorm would love some hot

Sunshine

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A very average July here,a typical British summer month with spells of rain and some warm sunny days.

Whats disappointing is there has been no real heat at all this month.

Summer still has a long way to go though and rekon August/September could produce a hot spell like we had in June.

Here`s hoping.

Tipping it down in Manchester.

Chance it could end up being the wettest July since 2012 for England and Wales.

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