Positively chilly. Was 27.4C here at the same time. 

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He’s had such a good night’s sleep he forgot to put his false teeth in!

I’m the same, I am happy to sleep in a hot room. When we went on holiday to Greece last month my wife kept putting the air con on at night and I had to get the extra blankets out of the wardrobe 🙄

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Had a very hot night’s sleep in Caen where the max yesterday was 38C but it’s now down to 19. The change has arrived.

But I’ve realised that the biggest issue with sleepless nights in summer is the noise from having windows open. Caen appears to be a 24 hour party city.

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Of course if he wanted to experience real heat and if he had plenty of money to spare, then he could always head towards Australia at some time of the year like January which is the height of the Southern Hemisphere summer. That way, he would learn a lot about what real heat is, and gain some experience of that as well.

Anyway, after that really hot day in this part of the world which we had yesterday, we could really do with some rain here now. At this time last year, we needed the rain in order to make up the vast rainfall deficit which had been building up then but of course, that never really happened as the following autumn was also drier than average with an exceptionally dry winter after that.

On this occasion though, we had a wet spring in this part of the world and this has actually been quite a wet summer here overall so far despite these really intense burst of heat which we're getting and the fact that there has actually been some decent dry spells during this summer. This means that we don't really need the rain to make up the rainfall deficit this year as we did at this time last year.

What we do need the rain for though, is to get the pollen count down a bit after this latest burst of heat. I have what may well be a few symptoms of hay fever because of this high pollen count and there are plenty of others who will no doubt be experiencing these symptoms with many, experiencing even worse health symptoms in addition to that, possibly because of one of more other conditions which they might have in addition to that.

The fact that last night's forecast thunderstorms failed to materialise here has not helped one single bit with and so, we could really do with some rain now in order to cool things down a bit and clear away a lot of the pollen which is in the air just now. Only then can we then be relieved of these hay fever symptoms altogether or at the very least, get any sort of relief from them.

 

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The warm weather still hanging on by its fingernails here at Folkestone with 30.3 c and hazy sunny spells, while West Kent is cooler with sweet, sweet rain.

Don't know whether to feel smug or curse the weather gods. I'm leaning towards the latter.

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Anyone had Saharan dust? Splotches on car this morning.

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Yeah. Like I said int he convection thread, we only had the TS's skirt us so only had a few blobs of rain. These just stayed on cars then soon evaporated, leaving the Saharan dust.

I'd just had my white car cleaned, too...

 

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Yes. Just had the blasted thing washed too.

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Yes a very dusty car this morning. I hadn't washed it though!

So a weekend washout now back on the cards, after the BBC and Met Office had both backed away from such a scenario in the west.

Bugger.

 

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The Lakes wouldn't be the same without a bit of rain! We were up in Haven Lakeland last week and the weather was a bit better than forecast. Rain was mainly confined to the night and the sun occasionally came out 

 

We binned any thoughts of going the Lakes tomorrow off a few days ago, and had chosen Wales (either coast or Snowdon) instead. The forecast for that area was fine right up until today, when forecasts now show that ribbon of PPN more extensive and making less progress ENE'wards.

 

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Doesn't worry me. As somone who has to spend their whole Saturday afternoon stuck in work, nothing fills me with a wonderful sense of schadenfreude more than seeing everyone else's Saturday wrecked by crap weather too!

Jokin aside, it is typical though that the whole working week is nice and then we're back to crap by weekend though. Wonder if August will go the same way as usual too?

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Thank god its over!!! It isn`t nice to be working in especially in a kitchen. Its very pleasant here now,cool cloudy and fresh its nice not to feel hot for the first time in what seems ages. Roll on winter and I for one won`t bemoan the usual autumnal august if it materialises. Ive had enough of heat. Summers over the last 13 years have been one extreme or the other a normal English one would be nice.

Yes we’ve had it for a couple of days.  My daughter had my car yesterday and brought it back this morning looking like she’d been down a dusty lane, yet it had only been parked outside her house.

I also remarked on the beautiful pink sunrise on Tuesday morning, which I later heard on the radio was due to the Saharan dust!  

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I'm getting really fed up with this weather now!!

The rain is still refusing to fall in this part of the world (now, it seems to be raining just about everywhere else other than here). We need that rain to help to cool things down a bit and now that we're just not getting that rain, I'm continuing to sweat profusely with the temperature still up at around 20°C here in Edinburgh as at 9pm this evening.

EDIT:

I've noticed that it's now at along last, just started raining as I write, so maybe, I will get my wish here after all.

 

 

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Absolutely sick to death of this vile rubbish. It is yet another disgusting grey weekend of repellent humid grey muck with the temperature failing to drop below 16.5C overnight yet will struggle to hit 20C Why the hell can't we get a nice settled dry spell with sunshine, low humidity and pleasant temperatures?

July 2019 is one of the worst summer months I can remember. The first week was grotesque, it was poor when I was away and it has been garbage since I returned. Suffered a horrific day stuck inside a sweltering office yesterday when it was 26C and sunny outside only for the evening to be repulsively humid and overcast with yet more rain making 10 out of 11 days to record rain. An umitigated horror show 

There hasn't been a single decent weekend day all month. Another summer month where the weekend curse strikes in the extreme.

Weekday sunshine: 5.5hrs

Weekend sunshine: 3.2hrs and likely to drop further after this dross 

This follows hot on the heels of August 2018 (5.9 hrs, 3.2hrs) and July 2016 (5.0hrs, 2.5hrs). It just defies rational explanation. The office I work in is has no air conditioning and is just unbearable in summer even on a sunny day at just 17C. So to endure that and constantly suffer grey crap at the weekends is just torture. Grim and depressing beyond words.

Sunday was doing well up to June but Saturday has been hideous all year. We have so far had two mostly sunny Saturdays since the start of April when even the worst years of 2011 and 2014 managed six between April and September. We are going to need a very good run now just to equal those appalling years.

This is the sunshine recorded on Saturdays this month:

6th: 2.2 hrs

13th: 2.8hrs

20th: 1.7hrs

and today is just more of the same. Can't see even 3 hours being achieved with a seemingly constant stream of utter filth pouring in off the North Sea.

Just how the hell is this remotely acceptable for a summer month? I can't remember the last time November was this grim. Even in last years horrible dull wet atrocity we managed one decent Saturday (10th with 5.7 hrs). 

How on earth can a summer month be so bad that none of the four Saturdays record even 3 hours sun? Not even June 2007, June 2012 and July 2012 sunk this low. Not even close. I am so glad I was away for half this month because just enduring half has been bad enough.

Looks like a continuation of poor weather next week as well. Just depressing beyond words 

 

 

 

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Now that I do heartily agree with.

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Contrary to Richard's report, it's sunny here and feeling very warm in that sunshine. Temp was over 26C yesterday too.

No sunshine here though, and it is absolutely chucking it down with rain here as I write as it has been for the vast majority of this morning.

The one good thing about that is that this has cooled things down quite a lot. The temperature here in Edinburgh was no higher than 16°C at 10am this morning, and I no longer have to carry on sweating profusely as a result.

This should also help to reduce the pollen count and help to alleviate any hay fever symptoms as a result.

The downside though is that because this rain is falling along a weather front which retreating back westwards and then southwards, we are only going to end up back in that same air mass which brought those record breaking temperatures on Thursday.

The difference this time is that the wind will now have much more of an easterly component to it and therefore, be coming in from off the North Sea instead of directly up from North Africa. That will make it a lot cooler across the UK as a whole but for here, this will no doubt mean that we will continue to have plenty of easterly muck coming in from off the North Sea even after it has stopped raining here, as it is forecast to do.

 

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After the early murk has cleared it has turned out to be lovely day here, so far. Feeling warm with lots of sunshine once more.

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Here's one for the record books - warmest temperatures so far today. Aberdeen is, of course, high on the list.

Scatsa/Shetland Island (22 m)	22.0 °C
Lossiemouth (6 m)	21.0 °C
Exeter Airport (30 m)	21.0 °C
Bournemouth (10 m)	21.0 °C
Aberdeen Airport (69 m)	20.0 °C

There was a day a few decades ago where Shetland saw temperatures in the high 20s while it was much cooler across mainland Britain - a similar synoptic setup, I'd imagine.

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We’re back to situation normal today!  Just a brief spell of sunshine and now rain.  The first day of the week that it hasn’t been too hot to get any gardening done and it’s too wet!  

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Thanks Darren, I had missed the Shetland warmth this morning. An unusual setup that’s for sure, but as you say not unprecedented.

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21.1C in my garden but feels divine in the sunshine. I think the Shetland all time record is 23.4C. I've been up there numerous times this year for work and it is normally 12 and overcast!!