Even with the wind direction from the SE we get rain 

Yesterday was supposed to be dry and sunny IMBY, yet by 5pm it'd clouded up and the heavens opened.

Early days, but it's been a really crap summer so far. All will be forgiven, though, if we get a great second half of summer.

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THey should have played the world cup in the second half of summer, usually more reliable, though recent Junes have been good

 

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It's about time late summer provided something of note (and I mean something of note in the good direction). So many times August has let a summer down, so it would be a nice change to see it lift a summer up for once. This year is August's last chance to bring something nice, or it will undoubtably go down as the worst month of the decade for weather overall.

Still that's a long way away. It is only mid-June after all. Plenty of time for things to change.

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I have to say, I am absolutely loving today. Proper wet and cold day with perfect timing (Monday) after a dry and nice weekend and a big relief for gardens and farmers.

I had recorded 10mm in June so far, but already 27mm today with plenty more to come.

 

 

This summer just now, isn't turning out to be as bad here as I first feared.

Today is nice and sunny, and the only thing which is wrong with that is that it isn't very warm here with a cool wind coming from the North Sea.

To me, this reminds me of July 2014 when we had a similar sort of pattern with high pressure to our north as I would imagine that it would probably be a bit warmer away from the east coast just now, where you're more sheltered from that wind.

Furthermore, the models are showing there to be very little in the way of rainfall coming here over the next few days, so this is now shaping up to be a week where I can now kill myself laughing at the real soaking which the English are already starting to get whilst we enjoy a bit of decent weather for a change.

I will certainly be loving every bit of that and so, this is more of a gloat from me this time, rather than a moan.

 

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Dull, dark, cold, horrible.

And that was just yesterday. I decided for the first time in 20 years of living in SE London to go on a trip to the Isle of Sheppey. Home of course of Darren (Retron), and the climate of which I had heard so much about. Very interesting place. But after yesterday's visit I can confirm that the image he portrays of a searingly hot, humid hellhole of endless sunshine and unbearable indoor temperatures is a complete fabrication, and Sheppey is actually cool, damp and grey with oubreaks of rain and chilly winds. Don't believe the hype!

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Yet another vile write-off day as the June permacast hell sets in once more. Tedious and depressing in the extreme with the exact same crap three days on the trot – a disgusting grey morning giving way to an even more disgusting wet afternoon. It is not showers we are getting but persistent rain that lasts for hours and zero sign of the sun. Temperature even slipped into single figures at one point and now it is yet another good-for-nothing cool, grey weekday evening 

Just the same garbage we’ve had to endure virtually every year since 2007 with stagnant areas of cloud and rain forming over here that inexplicably won’t shift or pass through. There is no cloud in either the Atlantic or North Sea at the moment yet we have been stuck under this crap for three days. Where the hell is it all coming from? Actually I can answer that: straight from the bowels of hell itself just like all our so called weather these days. Looks like it will continue all week, getting worse if anything, so another summer that will be past the point of no return before it’s even reached mid-June.

I was horrified when I first found out how bad the summers of the 1960s were but now they seem wonderful compared to what we’ve endured for the past 12 years. This hideous run of phenomenally bad summers is simply incomparable to anything else in recorded history and it is the utterly vile month of June that is responsible year-in-year-out for the appalling lack of sunshine and excess rain. This could well end up the third top 10 wet June out of four since 2016 and that is with records going back 160 years. Just how ridiculous and totally intolerable is that?

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You should have gone to Italy this week, but then you'd probably be moaning about the too hot mid-30s.

Hmmmm....if we get much more of this, Richard: you might be out of a job.

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Ahh Richard!  I know what Bertie means!  Five hours into the four days of forecast rain and I’m already looking forward to sunshine again!  The garden looks better now though. 

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An interesting day, Started with mist and fog followed by a sunny spell, conection got going then rain late afternoon ending with a sunset

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Copied from June CET thread.I thought it was purposeful to both threads.

A note of encouragement: first 10 days of June 1975, average CET: 13.67

First ten days of 1995, 12.40 (and as far as 15th only 12.12!)

First 10 days of June 1990 12.34 (and only 12.21 to 15th).

Best of all, first 10 days of 1989 only 10.35.

Now, those of you who know these Junes and their following summers will understand all too well how not only summer can turn around, but June itself too. June 1975 is the odd one out here, as it had already switched paradigm by 10th. But 1989 and 1990 in particular are worthy of note- they kept getting colder to mid month. 

Apart from 1990 these Junes ended comfortably above 14. Of greater interest were the summers generally, with August starting hot.

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Just a shame that it never stopped raining in your neck of the woods when we were there on holiday two weeks ago. We were very wet tourists and it did rather spoil things.

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I really hope your analysis proves correct !!!!!

Yes, I do recall that it was very wet here around that time. As I mentioned earlier on today though on the MO thread, we haven't actually had any extended wet spells since last April which have lasted for over a week or so and for the vast majority of the time, it is usually not actually raining here.

With that being said though, that doesn't take anything away from the fact these wet spells which we do get, do still tend to be very wet indeed at times which means that there was always the chance that your visit to this part of the world would end up coinciding with one of those wetter spells.

It is therefore, just unfortunate that you have been one of the unlucky souls which this has happened to.

 

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Manchester Summer Indices 

1954 143
1907 147
2019 150 (up to 11th June)
1956 155
1912 156
1924 158
2012 164
2008 168
1987 169
1946 170
1909 171
1931 173
1978 173
1980 173
1920 174
1923 174
2007 174
1927 175
1948 176
1938 177
1922 178
2011 179
1985 180 

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This June is already had more rainfall than the combined total of 1975 and 1995 and is wet as 1989 and this is by the 10th.

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A plus side to all the rain is it should hopefully encourage a few early season edible fungi..

Summer Bolete or Chanterelle perhaps 😊

Another plus side to all of the rain is that we won't have to worry about there being any hosepipe bans this year and the same time, we also won't have to worry about the grass going all brown and parched like what it did last year.

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Chuffing slugs are going mental on my plants unfortunately. Anyone got any environmentally friendly deterrent techniques? 

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I've just closed the curtains as I couldn't see anything on the telly with the low evening sun shining on it.

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tin foil or salt flakes 

If the grass isn't brown and parched then it is a very poor summer.. Parched grass is a normal annual occurrence down here - 2012 was the last summer the grass remained green. 

Cheers, will give it go. 

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What's a 'sun' ?