I personally enjoy the fresh but still quite warm evenings. I'm managing to sit out in my shorts now so it's not that cool. It's just nice and breezy enough the get some air into the house before bed 🙂. It's been another hot cloudless day today. Nice to just get outdoors more this summer.

On garden watch, my front garden (don't know why they always come out sideways!) has completely given into summer now but my back garden is putting up a fight - helped by being shaded by clover until I cut it today. I judge summers off my garden colour!

24.1

24.2

26.8

26.8

26.5

26.6

26.2

27.3

Not spectacular, but how does that read? Great for June AFAIAC; the word'prolonged' is starting to thrust its head above the parapet.

Quite liking this role reversal! Nice to see Manchester being one of the best places for heat and sunshine, whilst those in the east are stuck under morning cloud. Makes a nice change and actually fills me with a slight sense of schadenfreude!

Annoyingly close to 30c today top spot was Otterbourne Hampshire 29.5c 

We should hit 30 Sunday, Monday and Tuesday though

That feeling of schadenfreude won't last long though - autumn and winter will be here before you know it, and I'll be rubbing my hands in delight as fronts dump all their rain on Manchester but never make it here. 

Fine by me. I like winter mild, damp and dull. You can keep your frost and snow.

There's always one nutter. 

Glad to be it!

Anyway, I was mostly referring to months like January 2007 - mild everywhere, but only wet in the north west. That's what I'm looking forward to. You can keep your mild, wet, dull weather and I'll have the mild, dry and sunny weather. Deal? 

Either or suits me. Just get winter out the way uneventfully.

By the way, the weather has been better in Manchester than in Leeds today... and will be so tomorrow too. Just reminding you.

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Yeah, sure it does. You keep telling yourself that. Meanwhile, I'll console myself in the knowledge that I don't live in the worst part of the country for virtually any type of weather. It's only fair that you guys enjoy better weather for a month or two before it returns to normal again. 

Winter Hill didn't look good yesterday

Already 25c in the SE somewhere should get to 90f today

You remind me of my old flat mate. She was from Leeds and refused to acknowledge that it ever even rained there.

 Manchester has more ‘rain days’ than most other UK cities apart from Glasgow, Preston and Huddersfield. It has less rainfall totals though than places like Cardiff for example, and its annual rainfall is less than the UK average. 

Yorkshire’s climate is also a bit sh1t. Don’t kid yourself. 

Indeed I tell people that Manchester has below average rainfall for the UK and they don't believe me. lol 

Quite a different air mass and feel here today with both T and Td a few degrees higher day on day and less bright sunshine. 

Tomorrow (esp pm) should revert to the perfect conditions though. 

Shoreham already 28.7c if carries on like this we could hit 34c today

I can confirm the change in airmass is evident up here too. 

Already 25C at 11am. Going to be a hot one. 

Next Saturday is already showing 25c so that is very encouraging IMO.

The humidity is making it unbearable now, yesterday was much nicer. Hopefully the week ahead will return to that

I’ve noticed for quite a while that the MetO app always seems to underplay temperatures. 

Perhaps the sun is getting hotter! I don't remember temperatures rising so easily 30 years ago. Upper 20s was rare, now its normal

Well all of this could not have happened at a better time for us as the channel of the calder, opposite, is now narrowed to half its width as they prepare the foundations of the new Caldene bridge....... when I first saw the breakdown that was progged for this weekend ( over a week ago) I did have a twinge but it quickly evaporated into this SW storms forecast and opened up another rainless week for our workers.....

To think we had our second worst flood in july 2012 from a 4 hr thunderstorm ............

Anyhow, off into the garden, and onto my hammock, I go!!!