I'm coming up on Friday and can't wait for a bit of rain and more moderate temperatures. Don't usually mind heat but it's been a bit much down south this year and the absolute drought in this location stopped being enjoyable awhile back. 

Not specifically weather, but related to the prolonged heatwave.

It's really p*ssing me off that Coke/Pepsi and/or supermarkets & shops are profiteering by hiking the prices of cans of Coke & Pepsi.

We go through a daft amount of them (probably around 50 cans a week between us). The usual standard multipack rate is around 30p/can, but more often than not there''ll be an offer on to put them down to a max 25p/can.

The standard price in the past few weeks has been 8 for £3.50 (44p/can), and I've even seen 10-packs in supermarkets being sold at £5. The 24-packs are now no cheaper than £8.

Sorry to make a Sriram-type post, but it's costing us a fortune and really winding me up. No other product seems to be seeing price-hikes like this.

You struck me as the sort of person who would drink coconut water and guava juice from Waitrose

Yeah, that's me all over.

£6.59 inc VAT for a case of 24 cans at Makro - they at least haven't been raising their price recently!

They've been around the 25-27p/can range now for over 10 years, FWIW. I used to buy crates of them for the wolf centre, who sold them (and still do, sourced from elsewhere) for 50p a pop.

It was quite clear I’m only comparing the dull past few weeks with recent summers not the first part of summer which I did say, in another post, rated amongst the best on record. 

Only June was a washout last summer. July and August were nearer average and there wasn't a single max as low as 14C during July. I recorded 86.1 hours sunshine for the second half of July 2017 and 167.4 hours for August. 

So far 56.9 hours sun for the second half of July 2018. The dross has set in now and the rest of the month looks dreadful so there’s no way it will reach 86 hours and some of the precipitation charts look shocking into August with huge rain totals. The weekend continues to look worse and worse. A completely unacceptable write-off on a par with the worst of 2007 and 2012

I think the title of one of Chas & Dave's songs is very apt for you, Richard: "Ain't no pleasing you".

Ghastly. From the Met Office forecast video:

Wish that was in Fahrenheit instead. A high of 2C, mmm!

Well you say that but I've just gone back to the first page of this thread because I was convinced you have complained throughout and mid June you said...

"This is turning into yet another appalling summer. Sick to death of relentless grey skies and poor weekend weather. Two weeks now since the last really good day with only a few passable efforts since then."

Then two weeks later..

"This is an absolutely dreadful summer. It's nowhere near as poor as 2012 but more like 2016 without the rain"

Which part of summer did you like?! Thought I moaned a lot 

Sound good that they show more 37C areas from London to the East and even Derby will get 31C tomorrow.  With today 36.2C i would get around 37C tomorrow and perhaps a bit higher if stay good.  

Thuderstorms (if they happen)are never an unacceptable write off in my book. I well remember going to car dealership with my dad in early August 1995 and it was an absolute washout of a day. A week or so later he took delivery of his new car on what turned out to be the hottest day on record at Aberdeen Airport, a few days later the record was broken again a bad weekend does not ruin a summer. And having endured 57 days of drought I’m looking forward to seeing some rain and greenery when I arrive in Aberdeen on Friday.

So in summery May and June were very fine and dry in Aberdeen with a 31day absolute  drought and a by my count 19 days and counting with more than 12hours of sunshine, far more sunny days than any recent summer including 2006, which had a pretty poor August.  July looks like ending up being fairly average in terms of sunshine and rainfall but on the warm side temperature wise. So really not a bad summer at all so far.

Truly heinous. Today was horrendous and tomorrow promises to be worse if only because we won't get the cool down tonight that we enjoyed last night.

My ideal operating temperature is about 22/23C. Today was 12C over that, tomorrow promises more of the same. Groan!

On the contrary, I absolutely loved it today even though London was roasting. It's such a beautiful evening too and I'll probably stay in the garden til late.

Still, my ideal temp is ~25C with low humidity and a breeze.

Still no rain here - 58 days and counting - and I hate to think of what my metered water bill will look like. 

Consider switching to tap water? It's only about 1p a litre, delivered. Save yourself at least £600 a year and suffer none of the health side effects.

Mid June was a poor spell but late June and early July more than made up for that. It was excellent.

Unfortunately there seems no way back from the poor weather that's prevailed for almost three weeks now with only the occasional good day.

Good luck trying to see any greenery through the horrific nasty fog and murk that is present today. Not that green here anyway especially down at Duthie Park and River Dee. Hazlehead Park is looking greener than it was in early July though.

Weekend is not looking like a case of sun followed by thunderstorm more like a dull wet write off. It's not just one bad weekend. It's been poor since the 9th. No way can this summer be compared to 1976, 1995 or 2003 now. It will be lucky to beat 2013 which is currently the worst ever summer to be best of a decade.

2018 is miles ahead of 2013 and 2006 bar the record setting heatwave in terms of rainfall and sunshine. Both those summers has a poor month, 2013 had June and 2006 has August and that's not even accounting for the excellent spell from late April and Early May onwards. Aberdeen didn't record 20c once until 30th June 2013, which is probably the coolest start to a year ever. The weather records and the reports from friends just don't back up the notion of a crap summer in NE Scotland unless you expect nothing less that Mediterranean conditions. Foggy this morning after thunderstorms last night my Mum reports, supposed to clear later. 

I don't think it will though.

It is possible at this time of year to get such a massive torrential downpour that it actually pushes the rainfall total for that month to above the 1981-2010 average even if there has been very little rain during the rest of that month. This would then make that month wetter than average overall in terms of the actual rainfall amounts.

However, the amounts of rainfall which are required for that to happen with the current deficit being as big as it is, means that this would be quite a big ask. For where you are in Aberdeen, that could happen as I don't have the same inside knowledge of the rainfall totals in Aberdeen as I have of the rainfall totals here in Edinburgh. For here in Edinburgh though, we have had so little rainfall during this month so far that I can't really see that that happening in this part of the world.

Furthermore and even if that did end up happening, the number of official rain days (days where there has been at least 1.0 mm of rain) is still going to be below the 1981-2010 average which means that this month could never end up being truly wetter than average anyway.

This country really is pathetic at dealing with any form of abnormal weather! This brilliant summer, when you look at it, has been no more than a typical European summer. If you went to Paris or Berlin, they'd tell you that what we've had would be a fairly average summer to them. Yet over here we have water restrictions and a few days in the low-mid 30s and people can't cope. We really must be an absolute laughing stock to most of the northern hemisphere right now, who have had to face much worse conditions than we have.

The UK really needs to invest in proper air conditioning and water management. Have A/C on buses and give people the means to install a proper system in their homes and workplaces.

Where I live, we had no appreciable rainfall this month (by which I mean anything that so much as dampened the ground to any extent) until Sunday 15th July. The last proper rain I can recall before that was almost a full month earlier on 20th June. Contrast that with not only last year but the vast majority of summers going back to 2007 when we were lucky to get so much as one fully dry day for what seemed like weeks on end!

The period from 10th July onwards has not seen as much sunshine here as we did during that glorious fortnight in late June and early July. However when taken as a whole this summer thus far has, compared to the dross we have experienced over the last decade, been a summer from heaven for me. Only 2013 and 2014 saw summers that I would even describe as decent, let alone good, in the series from 2007 up to and including last year, and summer 2017 in some respects was almost as bad as 2012 and, going back even further, 1998.

No complaints from me!