The wind strength is quite extraordinary here in Fulham today and it is late July when summer is meant to be at its best. Supressed temperatures coupled with rain and strong winds with little or no sunshine feels like late Autumn let alone high summer. What an extraordinary change from a balmy warm and sunny June/ first half of July to this awful weather with no sign of a return to a degree of summer like conditions. Just 17 degrees today with Saturday pronged for heavy rain and a continuation of this vile weather.....

A quite awful late July day. Light levels similar to what one would see in November a constant steady drizzle and a strong wind. It felt absolutely horrendous for the time of year and definitely had the look and feel of mid to late Autumn. And no sign of any improvement any time soon. Summer really has died a death in the last 10 days.

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Love the fact that you southerners are posting in here now! 😂

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Love the fact that you southerners are posting in here now! 😂

Yes, and that makes it even more amazing that there has been nothing in this thread from Richard from Aberdeen for the last day or so.

Having said that though, our weather here in Edinburgh hasn't exactly been brilliant either as we have remained in pretty much a permacast hell for much of the time with some heavy showers during the last couple of evenings, as this joke of a 'summer' rolls onwards.

 

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Love the fact that you southerners are posting in here now! 😂

From the Deep South....Chichester....a truly awful summer's day...grey, rain on and off and a howling wind...much more like autumn than high summer!

Pure crap! Like a mid octobers day down here in far south, and gales this evening.

Looking at the models, is this going to be yet another year where August turns out cool and unsettled again? We got away with it last year, but it seems the August curse could well be back with vengeance this year.

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Love the fact that you southerners are posting in here now! 😂

Absolutely, in the north summer collapsed in early June and hasn't returned.

June was one of the wettest on record while July has been mostly wet and cloudy with only a few nice days always in the middle of the week.

The North/South split in the weather during June was remarkable even by modern standards.

Andy

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Vile day yesterday with gales and grey murk. Slightly better start to today but I think most people would have been asleep and missed the half hour of morning sunshine at sunrise. I went fishing earlier but the middens of seaweed piled high on the beach, grey rollers coming from some unnamed storm out  in the Atlantic, meant that although I enjoyed a brisk walk in chest waders on the Jurassic Coast the fishing was slow.

Poor people on holiday especially if they have escaped from up north's apocalypse of a summer. If Richard from Aberdeen is by chance here in Dorset he will feel quite at home.

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Tipping it down in Manchester.

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

 

Just over an inch of rain here fell yesterday! Proper autumn/winter rain event. Given how wet last weekend I reckon a months rain has fallen this week alone. 

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Today, we were supposed to just get showers with any rain from the secondary features passing to the south of the main area of low pressure missing us altogether and just passing across England and Wales. However and despite an abundance of blue sky to the SE as I look outside my window, the rain has been pelting down here fore over an hour or so. On top of that, the skies still continue to look very threatening to the SW where all of that bad weather is coming from, which suggests there is still quite a bit of rain to come here before everything everything is over and done with.

That means what we are getting just now, is a lot more than just a shower and of course, this is just yet another part of this really miserable summer which we are continuing to experience. This weekend was forecast to be not as bad as last weekend but at the moment, the weather here is actually worse if anything, than what it was at this same time last Saturday night. We still have August to go through yet but with the way that this summer has gone so far, it is not going to be long before I'm glad to see the back of it, and in a position where I can then look forward to see what the coming winter has to offer.

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http://en.sat24.com/en/gb?type=visual5 

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It's been a funny old year up until now, anomalous warmth and a lack of moisture for many for the first half of the year and almost like switching a light on about turn over the last week or so. The question is will this switch be locked in for the remainder of summer before we see the usual dry and warm start to Autumn occur?

There were only 6 summer months of the 1960s that recorded at least 100mm of rainfall for England and Wales. From 2007 to 2016, there were 11 summer months and 5 of them were wetter than the wettest summer month of the 1960s.

Total summer rainfall for summers of '60s: 2272.5mm
Total summer rainfall for summers 2007-16: 2566.8mm (2141.5mm for summers 1997-2006)

Wet summers have ruled the roost since and including 2007

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Back to more rain later possibly with thunder and lightning. 

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Absolutely, in the north summer collapsed in early June and hasn't returned.

June was one of the wettest on record while July has been mostly wet and cloudy with only a few nice days always in the middle of the week.

The North/South split in the weather during June was remarkable even by modern standards.

Andy

Over here, my perception is that our summer hasn't been too bad but then again, we've got fairly low expectations. Like many of you in the North, I generally look on in envy at weather conditions in the Southern UK. 

We missed the really bad conditions that much of England seems to have had over the past day or two, but it really has been Autumn here for the past couple of days - fresh, breezy and not so much sun. 

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If there's one thing that's done my head in this week it's been this damn wind! So many days that would have been decent enough without it have been ruined by this awful chilling breeze. I've also had to pick up a load of our potted plants in the garden several times, because they've all been blown over.

A nice cooling breeze is fine and lovely when it's in the mid-to upper 20s, but not when it's 18C by mid-afternoon!

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There were only 6 summer months of the 1960s that recorded at least 100mm of rainfall for England and Wales. From 2007 to 2016, there were 11 summer months and 5 of them were wetter than the wettest summer month of the 1960s.

Total summer rainfall for summers of '60s: 2272.5mm
Total summer rainfall for summers 2007-16: 2566.8mm (2141.5mm for summers 1997-2006)

Wet summers have ruled the roost since and including 2007

The other side of the coin, in the 1990s, there were 9 summer months that were sub 40mm for England and Wales. There have been only 2 such summer months since 2007.

 

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I'm in central France, where it's hot and until today the grass in the fields was brown. But even here isn't immune from the slow deterioration of summer 2017. 70mm of rain forecast here over the next week. We just had 9 of them in about half an hour, the grass is sodden and I can hear rumbles of thunder upwind ready for tonight's repeat performance.

By the end of August maybe even Italy's historic drought might fall foul to the slow Southward creep of the gunk.

Could this be like ghostbusters, a dark roiling cloud spreading inexorably Southwards until even the Sahara is under its pall? Certainly feels that way.

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

Indeed it looks like it is. Infact, it is another 100+ summer month!

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