Another atrocious day. Overcast, dank and just 13C.

 

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You cannot possibly compare the climates of Namibia and the UK as being next to the same Atlantic. The Atlantic is thousands of miles long and has many different climatic regimes (both east & west) along it's shores. Namibia is one of the most arid countries in the world and is as such because of the cold southerly current flowing along the coast. Completely & utterly diffrent to the association the UK has with the Atlantic ocean.

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A nice early summer's day today - partly cloudy and 20°C.

My only complaint however is the fairly strong wind. It seems to have been a frequent theme lately where the relatively few warm days this year so far have been ruined by quite a stiff breeze. I really hope it doesn't become the main feature of this summer. A fresh breeze is nice on a 27°C day, not an average temperature day.

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I wouldn't say 'ruined' but I know you are in a pretty exposed location. The wind has certainly been quite noticeable though.

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"Ruined" probably was too strong of a word, to be fair. There have been quite a few cases so far this year though where it (the wind) has shown up on a warmer day.

Contrast that to early in the week when it was calm.

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Good news for a change. It's been an excellent start to summer with the first third of June beating last year as the sunniest I have recorded 

Sunshine hours for the first 10 days of June:

2022	93.4
2021	91.6
2018	90.6
2013	82.1
2015	81.2
2011	76.4
2014	67.8
2016	67.2
2008	61.4
2019	60.0
2009	56.5
2010	46.6
2017	40.2
2020	39.2
2012	35.2
2007	16.8

2007 woeful beyond comprehension and I still have nightmares about that super-revolting month. The full monthly total for that pile of garbage has already been surpassed by this month and closing in on 2012 as well.

Surprising to see 2015 so high on the list as all I recall about that month is the wretched spell of permacast hell in the second half. Flew out to Ibiza on the 24th having barely seen the sun for a week and that day was the coldest so late in the summer since 1978.It was just ridiculously awful and 2015 was the third year in less than a decade (along with 2007 and 2012) where the dullest week of the year occurred in summer 

Hopefully we've moved past that nonsense now but mid-June does seem to be the worst time for the permacast. Very disappointing today with high cloud cover although the sun has been shining more frequently than expected given the cloud amounts. The worst aspect is the appalling wind. Sick to death of it. It's been a year of relentless Force 4/5 winds even with 1040mb highs 

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Multiple thuds heard around the country as jaws collectively hit the floor

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Love a stiff breeze on a hot day, not when it's low-20s or late-teens. 

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Believe it or not, some of our hottest days of the year here in Edinburgh can actually happen when it's windy.

It can be blowing a gale here with the wind coming from between the south and SW, but that usually always results in us being sheltered by the Pentland Hills to our south which can then cause a Foehn Effect here which at this time of the year, can raise our temperatures to not all that far short of 30°C under the right synoptic setup.

As a result, it should therefore come as no surprise that this summer's first temperature of over 20°C came yesterday on a day when it was very windy.

 

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Level 2 Heat-Health Alert issued for parts of England from 00:00 Friday to 00:00 Sunday

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/heat-health/?tab=heatHealth&season=normal#?tab=heatHealth 

Very, very dull here in Galway snice June came in. Really can't remember the last time I have seen the sun. Just a heavy layer of grey pretty much every day. Still, very pleasant to be out and about in all the same. Never very warm or particularly humid at any stage, which suits me down to the ground.  

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I love the short nights at this time of year.

This is a time-lapse I did last night with the perpetual "night-long" twilight lingering on the northern horizon. There was the added bonus of a new noctilucent clouds in the early hours too:

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This summer is turning into a disaster after getting off to such a promising start.
 
Just a repeat of last week with more utterly dire, demoralising, mind-numbing non-weather cloudfest horror which I detest with every bone in my body 
 
Repulsive grey all day long without a single break. It's unreal. Summer days 17 hours long completely ruined by putrid grey blankets that can't even break for an hour or two 
 
What the hell happened to days with 4/5/6 oktas of cumulus that used to be classed as normal summer weather? Virtually non-existent now. Absolutely sick to death of what has happened to summer in the 21st Century.
 
Illustrates perfectly why there are no longer any summer months with moderately above average sunshine. Because unless there is a high directly overhead, that produces well above average sunshine, everything else produces this ridiculous overcast horror like nothing on earth we ever used to get in summer.
 

Talking of hideous cyclonic set-ups, the rest of the month looks a horrific washout with endless cloud and rain. Weekend looks on a par with the worst 2007 and 2012 had to offer 
 
Each vile grey day moves closer to March ending up the sunniest month of the year which is ludicrous and sums up perfectly why this is the worst era ever for weather.
 
Getting ever closer to two years on the trot when the warmest month of the year has a single figure max when this never happened before. Utterly surreal and depressing in equal measure.
 
Only get sunshine when it's freezing cold and windy and the warm months are just a cloud infested write-off year after year 

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I can see that you and Moomin75 would get on very well together.

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Not the best year to spend in Cumbria!

Still only seen 21 C Max and a lot of cloud, like today

Not the copious amounts of rain though. Thats reserved for the weekend when we have a walking weekend in Wasdale!

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Oh those amazing long June evenings.

SE England has among the best summer climates in the world! 

I love this time of year.

Just after 10.30pm at night and I can see the sunset reflecting on Manchester’s skyline. 

It’s a lovely evening here too currently https://www.seacroftmarine.com/webcams/north-webcam/ 

At 10:50 pm

 

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👍👍👍👍👍👍 Magical. 

Time to fire up this thread again, since the 24th June Summer has taken a dive, had a really dismal week with cool temperatures and rain, something like a bad week in early April.Today again gone noon and its 14c , raining and skies like November.Utter garbage!!!

Keep hearing better weather is on the way, its taking a long time to come, and probably fizzle out after 5 days.

I've seen that happen in other years as well when the models have had it virtually nailed on for high pressure to build in from the Azores and bring a spell of proper summer weather to these shores, only for all of that to be downgraded closer to the time what that spell of decent weather never actually happening in the end.

That is the opposite of what commonly happens during the winter (last Christmas was the best example of that) when the models point towards some really cold and snowy weather on the way, only for that to be downgraded and never end up actually happening.

If there is any consolation though, this was never going to a 2007 or 2012 type washout summer and that is proving to be the case. In fact, this has actually been quite a decent summer here overall up until now.

That has resulted in me being concerned about the effects of the resulting lack of rainfall, but even those concerns have been addressed to a certain extent just lately with the odd downpour which has provided some welcome and much needed rainfall for the gardens without producing any of those biblical amounts of rain in a very short period of time, such as what we have seen in other recent years.

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https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2022/07/01/june-extends-run-of-warm-months/amp/ 

As can be seen from the official stats, June certainly nothing to moan about for most. Warmer, dryer and sunnier than average . I thought the anomoly might be more pronounced here than some other parts and whilst that is true large parts of have been better than average.
It has been warm , normally we have to toy with the heating at times in June but no need this year.

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Soon as the schools break up the full blown 2007/2012 horror arrives. Exactly the same as last year but at least it was nowhere near as wet.

Absolutely stinking awful, horrendous, bleak and revolting start to July that is so ridiculously wet and dull it's up there with the very worst.

Half the average monthly rain total already, courtesy of the wettest summer weekend since 2015, accompanied by sun levels on a par with mid-winter 

June has seen an improvement in recent years so it's now July that is taking over as the worst month of the year. A month of endless soul-destroying cloud. Not had a properly dry one since 2006 and only three above average sunshine totals since 2010 

Supposed to be dry today but it's hammering down yet again and only 13.9C at noon. Utterly VILE.

Just what the hell is happening when this nonsense is occurring year after year? Endless grey overcast grot day after day when it's supposed to be summer.

July 2021: 14/31 days with 3 hours or more of sun
Jan 2022: 19/31 days with 3 hours or more of sun
Feb 2022: 18/28 days with 3 hours or more of sun
July 2022: 1/3 days with 3 hours or more of sun and today not looking promising to make it 2/4.

Twice the available daylight but can't manage as many days with a paltry 3 hours than winter months. Should be seeing more like 20-25 days with 3 hours in a summer month and more like 10, or possibly not even that, in winter.

What the hell sort of rational explanation could there be for this pure and utter garbage? How on Earth can this sort of crap be possible year in year out?

Winter sunshine barely 10 degrees above the horizon is totally useless and worthless. It doesn't in any way make up for not getting any during summer. It's the equivalent of a scammer stealing £10k from your bank account and returning £10 six months later. 

Stupefyingly sunny, dry and snowless winters like nothing on Earth we ever used to get followed by stupefyingly dull, depressing and miserable summers like nothing on Earth ever used to get.

 

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Not great here either, only 14 C at 1pm with drizzle in the air. Dull and slightly wetter than average so far this summer. No t-shirt & shorts up here yet

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That's a big difference from this time last year when you were still living up here in Edinburgh and enjoying the lovely weather which we were getting here at the time (as you will no doubt remember).

Perhaps then, Lake District weather isn't better than our Edinburgh weather after all.

So far, I would even go as far as saying that this summer has been quite decent as well so far, although it's not been as warm and sunny as last summer.

Up here, it's been quite a lot drier than average during this summer so far (even though this month started off on a very wet note on the very first day of it) and it's also been slightly warmer than average here overall. Although this month is running slightly cooler than average at Edinburgh Gogarbank so far, it won't take much for that temperature anomaly to become positive once again.

The only thing which is letting this summer down so far is the fact that it has been duller than average so far. Last month was only slightly duller than average at Edinburgh Gogarbank but this month has started on a very dull note here with sunshine totals more like what we would expect to be getting in the middle of winter (so that aspect for this month so far is exactly the same here, as what RichardAbdn described above, as regards to his own situation up in Aberdeen).

The Sun has now come out here as I write, but it has also become very windy. Nevertheless, we are still at least getting some decent sunny spells and so, the ongoing lack of sunshine is only really a very minor issue in the overall scale of things. Since that is really my only complaint about this summer so far, I would say that we are actually doing really well overall, especially given the fact that two back to back decent summers are not exactly something which we would normally expect to be getting here in Scotland.

Furthermore, last month was only slightly duller than average and if the latest model output is correct, there is a good chance that we might have some much sunnier weather on the way, although we might just need to bear a bit of patience with that one as it could take a bit longer for that sunnier weather to reach us than what a lot of people might be expecting.

Given that we have only really just entered into the month of July and the fact that last month was only slightly duller than average, it won't take much for the situation as regards to sunshine totals to be turned around, and I certainly wouldn't rule that out.

 

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