Lovely and warm for Lower Stoke area and with all the windows and back door opened to bring the warmth inside to 23.5C now so I aim to see 25C inside and closed everything this evening to retain the warmth for this coming week when it get cooler.   This time last year we were getting 25-32C temps daily and the long dry period started.

Maybe try closing windows amd curtains in sun facing rooms during day time.

We had overnight low of 16C after a day high 23.3C but the core house was closer ro 24C overnight.. Rooms near open windows cooler. 

But being a coastal location in a city we get used to mild nights from late May to mid Sept 12-18C... 16-18 more from late June-Aug..

Awful start to summer with the third dire weekend in a row. Truly horrific suicide inducing levels of sunshine for weeks on end giving the worst weather at this time of year since 1983.

I would think the turnaround that occurred that year will be unlikely to be repeated this year. Rather I see a situation akin to 1993 where the dross goes on and on and it just never gets warm and sunny. That has to be the only year I can remember that offered so little in the way of fine evening/weekend weather as 2019 has by this point. Even 1996 turned around by now with a glorious June following months of horror. Only difference with 1993 appears to be that the winter months all produced decent snow back then 

As if the lousy weather here hasn't been bad enough I am looking at the upcoming forecast for close to where I will be going in Portugal next month and it's unreal. Days of 17-18C highs with cloud and rain. Unspeakably poor when even southern European locations are getting no summer in June 

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/ez3ux9yys#?date=2019-06-02 

What a grim year to finish off a truly pathetic and woeful decade of weather. 

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And things can only get worse.

Poor start to summer in my neck of the woods, and unfortunately the models don't show much hope, at least around here. The only consolation is because I'm working nights all of this month, at least it doesn't look like I'll really be missing anything.

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Ah, time-tested advice - as I write this the windows and curtains are indeed closed on the west side of the house, but it's still hot indoors regardless (a flat roof is to blame).

I'll open the windows in an hour or so (which should at least get it below 30, as there's actually a breeze today), then the air-con's going on again.

I still plan, eventually, to get a "proper" AC unit installed, the type with an outdoor fan. For now, though, I'm still using a portable job. It does an okay job, but it's loud!

 

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No idea why he lives in Aberdeen if the weather is so bad.....miserable fella

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A cloudy couple of days to bring in the Summer here but it has been warm so not too bad

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I don't think that Richard would ever be happy with the weather in his neck of the woods regardless of wherever he was in the world at any particular time as we saw from his most recent trip to Italy.

I know that complain a lot about the weather being boring (and not just on these moaning threads) but then, I do live in Scotland which means that I have just learned to grin and bear that in the knowledge that this is what I expect to see from our weather in this part of the world.

 

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My house in Lower Stoke had just finally reached 24.5C as I opened all the windows to bring the 26C warmth which is currently now but could had been done better if was more sunnier to see my house temps reaching 25C.   Kitchen extension have a flat roof but facing N so lack of sun made the kitchen always cold room even with heating on.  Previous owner had left the ceiling fans here in the N facing bedrooms and kitchen which scratch my head, what the hell she put the fans if this house does not really hot up like your house or my old house in Epsom.  It now cover in dust and not going to take off since I am moving out again.

Weybourne 28.8c today not bad for 2 day wonder spell

 

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Well the sun is out now so mustn’t grumble and it feels pleasantly warm at 18°C.

I realise that persistent moaning can be irritating and tiresome but perhaps it is therapeutic to some? Personally I prefer to assume that the U.K.’s climate is mediocre at best and then happily embrace any pleasant or exciting weather that we do get. Even going outside currently, listening to the birdsong and feeling the warmth of the sun on my skin is lovely.

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Aberdeen arguably has the worst weather of any city in Europe in the Summer. Trying to think of somewhere worse Reykjavik perhaps not many though.

 

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Hey, Richard, why don't you cancel the holiday in Portugal and book in at a hotel here in Kent?  We've got weeks of sunny, dry weather down here.

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No, it really doesn’t. Aberdeen is both sunnier and drier than quite a few other cities in the U.K.

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True, as is the case with Edinburgh (although you wouldn't think so, going by the sort of weather which we've had during the last month especially when that is seen in comparison with what the rest of the UK has been experiencing over that time as is seen from the fact that we were actually wetter than average during last month at a time when the rest of the UK was still generally drier than average overall).

Anyway, I'm wondering is perhaps, Ally was stating what the weather in Aberdeen would appear to generally be like from the point of view of a certain other poster from your city with the name of Richard, rather than expressing his own particular view about that.

 

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It was definitely a bit of a tongue in cheek comment. Richard's posts always make me smile.

 

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Manchester summer indices

Summers in order with the best at the top and the worst at the bottom 

1976 301
1995 298
1983 278
1955 277
1911 274
2018 272
1984 271
1959 269
1975 268
1949 267
1989 262
1947 255
1933 251
1901 249
1921 249
2003 247
2013 247
1925 246
2006 246
1996 245
1935 243 
1994 240
1934 238
1940 238
1941 236
2014 236
1970 235
1969 234
1973 234
1999 234
1997 232
1990 229
1917 228
1926 227
2005 224
1905 223
1932 223
1945 223
1967 223
1977 223
1914 222
1992 222
1908 220
1960 217
1950 216
1957 216
1968 215
1906 214
1942 214
1937 213
1939 213
1904 212
1929 211
2001 211
1903 209
1943 209
1991 207
1913 205
1971 205
1919 203
1961 203
1982 203
1951 201
1918 200
1944 200
2002 200
1930 199
1974 199
1979 199
1952 198
2000 198
1928 197
1962 197
1964 197
2004 197
1915 196
1981 196
1902 195
1963 194
1993 194
2009 194
1953 193
1966 192
1998 192
2015 192
2017 192
1988 191
2010 191
1910 190
1936 190
2016 189
1965 189
1986 189
1916 188
1972 185
1958 184

2019 184 (up to 3rd June)

1985 180
2011 179
1922 178
1938 177
1948 176
1927 175
1920 174
1923 174
2007 174
1931 173
1978 173
1980 173
1909 171
1946 170
1987 169
2008 168
2012 164
1924 158
1912 156
1956 155
1907 147
1954 143

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As I type this, it Is raining (albeit lightly at the moment) and we really could do with the wet stuff, but what I find depressing is how it is that dim and grey that I'm having to turn lights on indoors to lift the gloom - at noon time in early June. A contrast to the past few days.

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During nearly every single winter, those of us who are looking for a lot of cold weather and snow at that time of the year will the be relying on there being quite a bit of northern blocking around to deliver that with a strong Greenland/Scandinavian High feeding in really cold winds from either Siberia (if that is an easterly wind) or the Arctic (if that is a northerly wind).

Yet all too often, it is the Azores High which then becomes our unwelcome visitor at that time of the year as that then brings in really mild air from the Canary Islands which has then ruined many recent winters in particular. Now that we are into what is supposed to be "summer" though, this now brings us into the very time of the year when we want the Azores High to be around so that it then builds toward the UK and delivers some proper summer weather with a lot of hot, dry and sunny weather.

Indeed, we even got our wish from that last year and we ended up with a really good summer as a result. However, that is once again being shown to be an exception rather than the rule because just when we want the Azores High to be around, it is now posted almost completely missing.

What we have instead of that, is the very type of northern blocking which we look for during the winter to deliver some really cold weather except that at this time of year, this tends to result of low pressure forming underneath it and then sitting in a certain particular location such as right over the UK, resulting in us then experiencing a really poor summer such as what we had in 2007 and 2012, and which has also caused this so-called "summer" to get off to such a poor start.

When you all of that together, you couldn't really make that up. Two questions then arise from that and the first such question is the one of where that Azores High is at the very time of the year when we need it to be around and secondly, why can't we get that sort of northern blocking during the winter which is around at the moment (if we did, our winters would no doubt be colder than what they are turning out to be with those snow and cold weather lovers being much happier as a result)?

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What an absolutely shocking summer so far up here. We don't seen to have had a warm and/or dry day for weeks. The last 2 weeks have been as bad as I can remember at this time of year. Veg are a write off - nothing has grown, it's been too cold.

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Very true Michael, although one wouldn't think that if they were to believe a certain other resident of Aberdeen who regularly posts on this forum!

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It's been very feast or famine here since April. We've had a couple of lovely spells and some crap ones, but mostly it's been that archetypal British weather: changeable (from day to day in recent weeks)

Even took the weather with us on holiday! We were moving around a bit day by day admittedly, but had 5 nice days, 3 crap ones, and one scorchio.

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Other than yesterday's rain which didn't arrive until the afternoon it's been very pleasant with plenty of warm sunshine......of course it is only 4 days old 

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Another perfect evening here: strong sunshine, low humidity and 19C with the right amount of wind.

This week has been very dry and very useable and tomorrow is more the exception to this rule.