Saw lot of plebs wearing coats today in Nuneaton when we went shopping.  Another cold summer to fight off with and keeping ourserlves warm instead of using fans or AC to keep us cool over high summer.  Car temps was 13C so that definitely severe cold for July as it average 23C here so that 10C lower but same boring temps in winter months. 

Even today, we had wind gusts up to 43.8 mph from the WSW at Edinburgh Gogarbank and so, I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow was even worse than, possible even with 50+ mph gusts in this part of the world.

That has happened before at this time of year and just to give a very good example of that, the last year in which the Open Championships was played at St. Andrew's in the golf was back in 2015 and I can remember that there was one day during that particular event which was cancelled altogether due to high winds even though the Sun shone there right throughout that day.

As a coincidence, that was also within our last cooler than average summer and this summer appears to be panning out just like that.

It's after 2pm in what is supposed to be high summer and the warmest month of the year yet the temperature here in Edinburgh has dropped to just an absolutely abysmal and miserable 11°C, and we've had warmer days than this even in the depth of winter.🤢

Absolutely pathetic!!😡

No wonder there are no bees or butterflies, they have been battered to death this year!

In the sun it is pleasant if you can keep out of the breeze, it is looking like next week will not be as chilly as first thought for the time of year. But have to agree overall it’s been poor this year. It’s almost like it is autumn for 10 months of the year now, seasons just do not seem to be what they were once 😕

Whilst the busiest part of this site today has been the General Election thread over on the UIA forum for obvious reasons, I've been watching a bit of the tennis at Wimbledon which reminded me that at this time of year, I would normally be sweltering whilst indoors and often having to take a nice ice cool drink or some ice cream to cool me down.

In addition to that, it was also in this same month just two years ago that the temperature in SE England exceeded 40°C with temperatures above 30°C being recorded even here in Edinburgh.

All of that seems like a very distant memory now though because instead of that, I'm now having to put a jumper on to keep warm and keep the chill off whilst I'm watching the tennis, which is something which I wouldn't normally be expected to be doing until the end of September going into the start of October.🤢

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckmmkdr0m2po

If you have a conservatory facing south then it will do a good job to keep your house warm,  Today was 26-27C in doors and that normal high summer indoor temps so it feel very comfortable warm and not humid indoors.  Also need to store the warmth indoors as I see stupid 16c max after tomorrow so house stay warm enough.  It very tiring to battle to keep warm all summer whne we should be using either fans or AC with this global warming nonsense. 23C at Santa Claus village, Arctic circle area in Finland so that warmer than whole of UK.

Care to post said update? The one I can see for the second half of July says temperatures are more likely to be average to above average. While I'd LOVE a "well below average" July, I just can't see it.

As can often be the case at this time of year, predictability at this range is exceptionally low. There is a roughly even chance of rainfall being both below average and above average, whilst around average to above average temperatures are slightly favoured.

Which will be the same as I've just quoted, I suspect. In other words, not "exceptionally wet" and not "well below average"...

As it's the moaning thread, I'll have another moan - for the millionth time, stop exaggerating! 😉

“Plenty of dry weather around to start the weekend although the chance of an odd shower”

Hasn’t stopped raining all morning here, and it’s clear from the radar there are showers or prolonged rain across the entire south west 

Almost every single month since November 2022 has had worse weekend weather than weekday and it just keeps on getting more prepestorous with around half of the rainfall in this repulsive summer occuring at the weekends. No rational explanation behind this ludicrous never ending hell. It truly is being engineered by Satan. 

Worst Sunday sunshine average between 2007 and 2012 was 3.73 hours. Last year it sunk to 3.52 hours and this year 3.43 hours before yet another crap total is added and with all the dullest months of the year still to come. It's just beyond excruciating. The same filthy grey unusable drizzly crud week in week out.

An absolutely woeful 19 hours sun for the first week of this horror show month which is the second lowest total in my records after 2012. The last 12 days have had under 40 hours in total with a max daily duration of 6.3 hours which could be achieved any time of year, bar a few weeks round the solstice. 

Yet again a 21st Century summer permacast special like nothing we ever saw in history. Even the poorest of summers had an element of day to day variability. Not stagnant cloud that stuck around refusing to budge day after day for weeks on end.

Three consecutive days with 10mm+ which has never happened before in July in my records. Not even in 2007 and 2012. That's how bad it is and from the looks of things today could be the fourth.

Day after day the NE is being plagued by stagnant cloud and rain which just sits there and won't shift. At the same time we are enduring this horrific filth Glasgow had 19 hours of sunshine at the weekend showing how ridiculous and abnormal this hellish pattern is. The antithesis of normal.

21 hours of sun and 50mm of rain so far. Nowhere else on the planet has averages this poor at the height of summer. Not even Torshavn. 

Legitimately feels even worse than 2012. Back then we managed two clear afternoons with temps of 20C. Nothing remotely summerlike from this malevolent month. Don't think there has been less than four oktas of cloud at any point. It's not come close to reaching 20C and it's looking like the umpteenth month in the past two years to reach the full monthly average rainfall in the first half.

It's more grotesque and unpleasant than any words could do justice to. A steaming pile of horse manure like nothing on earth ever endured within living memory. The 12-month rolling rain total has been above 1200mm for over three months bar a brief period of three days in May when it dropped to 1196mm. Could even increase this month which is beyond surreal given how wet last July was.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?date=2024-07-09 

Soak it up, DrM - we are having our windows painted - keep it there! 😁