Looked at the radar at lunchtime, there was loads of heavy thundery rain to the south, over West Sussex and South Hampshire, and moving north. It looked like we were finally going to get some rain! We got the washing in before going out mid-afternoon as I was convinced we were finally going to get some decent rain.

In the end, the whole lot faded and died out just before reaching here. We didn't get a drop! So I've had to water the garden again this afternoon. Since then, I see the rain band reinvigorated itself north of us, and now the M40/M1 corridor is getting its daily storms.

A completely dry weekend except for some spits in the wind yesterday, and only 7.5mm so far this month. We've only had distant rumbles of thunder, during last week.

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Looked at the radar at lunchtime, there was loads of heavy thundery rain to the south, over West Sussex and South Hampshire, and moving north. It looked like we were finally going to get some rain! We got the washing in before going out mid-afternoon as I was convinced we were finally going to get some decent rain.

In the end, the whole lot faded and died out just before reaching here. We didn't get a drop! So I've had to water the garden again this afternoon. Since then, I see the rain band reinvigorated itself north of us, and now the M40/M1 corridor is getting its daily storms.

A completely dry weekend except for some spits in the wind yesterday, and only 7.5mm so far this month. We've only had distant rumbles of thunder, during last week.

Same here in S.Essex. 7.5mm - you lucky so and so ! Just 5mm here for month (from yesterday) But seriously I feel your pain. I am getting sick of reading of the storms and floods all around me, in fact as close as 5 miles. Today's deluge did the same here. Got within 5 miles South then evaporated into thin air only to reinforce as it moved up through East Anglia. Watering our beloved garden is a full time job and like trying to water the Sahara!

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Same here in S.Essex. 7.5mm - you lucky so and so ! Just 5mm here for month (from yesterday) But seriously I feel your pain. I am getting sick of reading of the storms and floods all around me, in fact as close as 5 miles. Today's deluge did the same here. Got within 5 miles South then evaporated into thin air only to reinforce as it moved up through East Anglia. Watering our beloved garden is a full time job and like trying to water the Sahara!

Another day, and again surrounded by heavy rain on all 4 sides. We managed to get 0.3mm of light rain/drizzle just before breakfast. Meanwhile there are downpours currently in progress in the Fareham area, West Sussex, Newbury, Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire, and one's even sprung up 4 miles East of here in Wokingham. 

The rain over Portsmouth is heading north, but just watch it fade away before it gets here!

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The grass in my back garden has that dark, saturated orangey brown colour that says the last drought of the summer is now at an end. Soon scraggy green shoots will be popping up all over it, along with weeds in the beds.

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Almost drowning in he 1.1mm of showers today ! 23C. Most pleasant except for the parched garden.

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Day 5 of this unrelenting hellish permacast garbage and it's worse than ever. Not only do we have to endure the featureless skies and lack of temperature variation now there's wind and rain to inflict even more unwarranted punishment 

No-one should have to endure this. It's torture and the worst spell all year. Five consecutive days each with less than half an hour sunshine and a total of 1.8 hours. Barely half of what was recorded during the previous dullest 5-day spell back in March.

Only recorded one bleaker 5-day period in August which unsurprisingly was back in 2012 when there was just 1 hour between the 11th and 15th. Arrived back from Spain during the middle of that so can quite legitimately say this current spell is the worst I've ever had to suffer in August 

Beyond ludicrous and once again it just goes to show that there is no floor on the depths that can be plumbed in this revolting, nasty and repellent era consisting of the same predictable, tedious, unrelenting garbage on a loop ad nauseum

Even five days of easterlies in winter would struggle to be this dull and sunless. It just defies belief.​ However relentless westerlies mean we never have to endure anything like this then. Only in the ghastly season of summer with its relentless vile and charmless easterlies like nothing on earth we ever saw before 

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It sounds as if Scotland has experienced yet another awful summer, the east and NE particularly so. 

Down here its shaping up pretty good. A good June, A mediocre (but reasonable) July and a very warm and dry August so far.

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Not a moan, more just a general comment:

There's a hint of an autumn feeling in the air now, despite it still being fairly warm and humid. It must be the changing light levels, as the days are getting shorter and the sun is noticeably lower in the sky now. Plus nature seems to be getting that very late/weary look to it now. This year has gone bloody quick...

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Not a moan, more just a general comment:

There's a hint of an autumn feeling in the air now, despite it still being fairly warm and humid. It must be the changing light levels, as the days are getting shorter and the sun is noticeably lower in the sky now. Plus nature seems to be getting that very late/weary look to it now. This year has gone bloody quick...

Yes. It became noticeable here yesterday. Lower light, morning and evening shadows where previously it was sunlit...the wheel keeps turning.

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Yes. It became noticeable here yesterday. Lower light, morning and evening shadows where previously it was sunlit...the wheel keeps turning.

Don't worry, it won't be long now before this year's autumn moaning thread is started on this forum then no doubt, we will probably then end up getting that sunshine and drier weather which we could have done with seeing during this summer.

 

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It sounds as if Scotland has experienced yet another awful summer, the east and NE particularly so. 

Down here its shaping up pretty good. A good June, A mediocre (but reasonable) July and a very warm and dry August so far.

 

Our still parched lawns will testify that. 

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The breathtakingly awful August continues. Incomprehensible how we could get a spell as bad as the last five days then the sixth day is even worse with more rancid easterly muck and not even a glimpse of sunshine. Nowhere else on the East Coast has suffered six horrific virtually sunless days in a row. Once again it is just this particular area that's singled out and subjected to the worst, most soul destroying weather to be found anywhere on the planet 

Is this ever going to end? I really am at breaking point now. No foreign holidays then deprived of my trip to the west coast and instead subjected to the worst ever spell of the conditions I despise the most. Life just feels like an endurance test. No enjoyment whatsoever 

Having to repeatedly endure these excruciating spells of stupefyingly dull, depressing and draining easterly murk that go on and on like nothing we ever used to get is simply not tolerable. There is no inhabited place on earth that summers are this grim. Even in the Faroe Islands less than 2 hours of sunshine in six days is not remotely normal.

Talking of things which aren't remotely normal here's the wind rose for this stinking summer:

A putrid mix of showery, cool NW'lies and easterly muck. Virtually nothing from the quarter that should be dominating or at least did prior to 2007. Result: one of the worst summers of all time.

It won't be as bad as 2007 or 2012 but more than 40 hours sun would be needed just to reach 2011 and 2008 which is the next level on the scale of awfulness. 60 hours to beat 2016 and avoid being the dullest since 2012. That would still be less than the average over 13 days but getting even 6 hours more before the end of the month would seem to be a tall order based on the last six days  

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 Don't worry, it won't be long now before this year's autumn moaning thread is started on this forum then no doubt, we will probably then end up getting that sunshine and drier weather which we could have done with seeing during this summer.

 

You can almost bank on that happening John .

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Don't worry, it won't be long now before this year's autumn moaning thread is started on this forum then no doubt, we will probably then end up getting that sunshine and drier weather which we could have done with seeing during this summer.

 

Plenty of sunshine & drier weather this summer down here :) 

It was a decent spring but has been a disappointing summer. No doubt September will be a nice start to autumn as it often is.

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It was a decent spring but has been a disappointing summer. No doubt September will be a nice start to autumn as it often is.

Whereas over here I would class it as a much better than average Summer, even taking into account the average July but with this half of August more than making up for it.

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It sounds as if Scotland has experienced yet another awful summer, the east and NE particularly so. 

Down here its shaping up pretty good. A good June, A mediocre (but reasonable) July and a very warm and dry August so far.

 

Not too bad really, for example today the fog lifted for a couple of hours and the temperature soared into the mid 60s! Phew! 

turning into another soggy summer month , 58mm rainfall for August so far

It was a decent spring but has been a disappointing summer. No doubt September will be a nice start to autumn as it often is.

 

Very good spring, slightly-below-average summer here (majority of June was good-to-great; July abysmal; August great until today)

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August, including today, has been dull and grey here and it is compounded by the fact you cannot travel more than five miles to escape!

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