Hearing the talk of it becoming more unsettled in the next couple of weeks makes me a little bit disappointed at the way this summer has slowly fizzled out from the beginning of July up here. It has kind of just got cloudier, cooler and wetter each week. It isn't bad by any stretch but after such a great June going into the key summer months of July and August, it needed to be better to make it one of the greats. It will go down as one of the better summers though.

I've been keeping my fingers crossed all year that August will finally deliver but it looks unlikely this year.

It has, but for this area I'd say that July 2006 remains the overall superior July. That one had more sunshine, was slightly warmer and even had a few thunderstorms to boot. That's not to undermine this month though, as it has been a brilliant one!

I still read NW sometimes and it really bemuses me why summer haters over there constantly feel the need to tell everyone on an almost-daily basis that they hate sunshine and anything over 20C. I have no problem with people having the odd whinge (as heat loathers over here occasionally do), but almost every day gets tedious. We all know how they would react if there was an equivilent who always moaned at anything under 6C in winter.

That would be the overcast Sunday afternoon with a high of 26c followed by the Monday that reached 27c and the week that Aberdeen reached 20+ most days culminating in Friday's high of 25c and the thundery Friday night that followed. That's a pretty summery week in my book especially for NE Scotland.

 The July average max for Aberdeen is 17.6C btw.  I judge summers here by that benchmark. So we had a very wet weekend this weekend gone, but for summer as a whole it's are still below average in terms of rainfall and the 7 day forecast looks fairly dry and the key dates coming up are next Sunday/Monday with 40,000 people expected at Turriff Show the premier summer event in five region. Both days look dry, reasonably sunny with highs in the low 20s. Perfect day out weather.

I've also noticed that nearly all the winter barley has had the combines through it which is not only a very early start to the harvest but also they've had plenty of unbroken dry weather to work in too. 

I'd say that the Julys of 2006, 2013 and 2014 all beat this one.

Overall, though, this the best summer period (and I'm including the excellent May in that) since probably 1995 here. Just a pity that the last 3 weeks have contained a lot of 'distinctly average' weather, and August doesn't look to be fizzing, either.

you say that on a weekly basis 

That's the thing really.. including May. It all happened so early which always meant it was going to be difficult to keep hold of it. I actually thought the rest of summer would be even worse than it has been, just HOPED it would carry on until October! If the months were nudged along so our best months were June and July with August starting well but then on a slow decline with an early September warm and possibly sunny weekend then I would have been very happy with summer. Same weather, different months.

A nice August would have been nice for a change because as I've said before, a messy August can easily feel and look so depressingly autumnal up here. It only took a late July rain fest last weekend with what felt like very early darkness for the "what you doing for Christmas dinner?" question to be brought out and Facebook friends sharing Christmas events!

This is why I dislike early warmth - because as you say it would always be difficult to hold onto it throughout the summer. It would have been so much better if the May warmth had been delayed until June - we'd potentially be looking at two consecutive 19C months if that was the case.

And I can already tell that August is going to be a cloudy month if the current pattern is anything to go by - it's still reasonably warm but once again sunshine is in short supply. 

I don’t really judge summer by temperature at all, more on sunshine and rainfall -especially at weekends and in any case the average max for Dyce is 18.5C not 17.6C.

25C days should be accompanied by sunshine not overcast skies. No point in it being 25C if it looks the same as a cool 15C day. I can’t remember seeing any days that hot with overcast skies here before. Last week was not very summery at all with three wet evenings and so far this week is worse. I haven't been able to sit in the garden since last Wednesday. So poor is the current spell that even a rare dry day like today has been rubbish due to cloudy skies and wind. 

Also, not convinced the weekend will see 20s and sunshine. Forecasts and model output suggest more like 17C and overcast so the second half of summer looks like continuing poor.

After the deluges of late July, August wouldn’t have to be that wet for this to end up yet another wetter than average summer. Certainly it will not now rank alongside 1976, 1995 and 2003 no matter what. All those summers had under 100mm of rain as well as over 600 hours sun. This one won’t.

Miserable grey start to August with the prospect of another soul destroying write-off evening to not look forward to. Be as well being October already because it’s now a week since there was any opportunity to sit in the garden, which is almost unheard of, at this time of year, even in the worst summers.

The way this summer has effortlessly slipped back to the stinking awful norm of the past decade is extremely depressing. August is looking more and more like an abject horror show. Struggling to see when there might be one decent mostly sunny and dry day. All there is in the forecast, is cloud, cloud and more cloud, oh and a little bit of rain too.

This is just horrible, bleak and depressing:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/gfnt07u1s#?date=2018-08-01 

Where the hell has the sun gone? Will seriously have to look at digging out the vitamin D pills two months early

With just a little bit of sunshine a short time ago, we have now managed to struggle up to just 18 minutes of sunshine being recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 10am this morning. This is now the fourth day of August and yet so far this month, even the sunniest day of the month so far delivered no more than 1.5 hours of sunshine with that being the only day during this month so far, which has delivered at least an hour of sunshine in total during the entire day.

That is even worse than what we would normally expect to be seeing during the winter and yet, we are still supposed to still be in our meteorological summer just now. To make matters worse still, this is the time of year when the days are shortening which means that we would expect the amount of available sunshine during each day to go down as the month goes on. Because of that, this (the start of the month) is actually the very time when we should be getting our sunniest days of this month.

This just serves to make what we are getting just now, even more vile and disgusting!! Of course, this isn't all down to what is happening this month because the current decline in the amount of sunshine which we have been getting, actually started during the second half of July. Luckily, the really sunny start which we had to July was enough to carry us through which meant that July still ended up being sunnier than average despite that much cloudier second half of the month.

However, what we are seeing just now, has to be one of the dullest ever starts to any summer month which I can remember. What is also important here is that when we got to half-way through July, we were only half-way through the summer (meteorologically speaking anyway) . Since it has been rather dull since then, this has actually turning into a summer of two halves which in terms of sunshine totals at least, is no longer looking like such a decent summer after all because of that. In fact, what is happening just now has to be in par with those really poor summers of the past such as 2007 and 2012 in terms of the amounts of sunshine which we are getting (it wouldn't surprise me if this month was actually even worse than that), and that just tells you how bad it has become now.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/es/cordoba/306728/weather-forecast/306728