That’ll be the second warning in 3-4 days here for heavy rainfall. You can tell the school holidays have started. 🤣

I've been watching the rain slowly edging north since I got up. Painfully slow progress, so when the heavier stuff arrives, I assume this is why they have given this warning because it will takes ages to pass by. A dire/dour day here in south Dorset. Anyone on holiday under a tent will be able to enjoy the pitter patter of raindrops tonight.

i notice London got a fair cop of rain and cold temperatures than in the Midlands last few days which so far escaped the wetness but not hte coldness and some shallow grass areas started to parched which I did not expected it under this unsettled cold summer pattern so it must had been so dry lately.

Cloudy now here but was pleasant warmer and sunnier earlier on until early afternoon.

Latest aam chart below.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://atlas.niu.edu/gwo/&ved=2ahUKEwjd_56jk5iHAxW-QUEAHYoOAzEQFnoECBgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2U7YJ-9hFypzGYGu2J6rIv 

Afraid you may be right. The summer pattern appears well and truly set in now, and I think we can safely write off the next few weeks.

Maybe August can save summer, but this has been another abysmal one so far, as bad as last summer!

August no use to me as daylight getting shorter and knowing that Autumn is near but already having this non-stop.  I still can see September will be the best month.  Like I said before the aveage for summer will plunge down further with September the warmest month of the year. How it like now from Jan to Dec: 9, 10, 11, 12, 14. 16, 18, 19, 20C, !7C, 14C 11C.  Sept the warmest month.   Very boring and can't see a return to weather recording data if this going to be like that so rack off modern UK climate.   AC units was desire needs during the warming 1990's summers and early 2000's now not possible.

Did not see a heatwave that come with full sunny days this year so can’t see any this summer but perhaps in September which will be 1 year since then.  Heatwave for every country in NH but not the UK at all.

First of all, the fact that we're having such a poor summer would be perfectly understandable if there were a quick transition from El Nino to La Nina in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean because that is something which is thought to favour a poor summer as was the case in 2012.

However, the developing La Nina appears to have stalled, leaving us stuck on ENSO neutral for now and when that happens, or when there is only a very slow transition to La Nina from El Nino, that is thought to favour a decent summer overall as highlighted in Gavin P.'s excellent summer update videos not all that long ago.

In addition to that, we have a positive NAO at the moment which is backed up by a positive AO which at this of the year, would be expected to favour a decent summer as a result of a stronger Azores High building in towards the UK.

All in all, this shows that there are actually quite a few factors in place which would be expected to favour a decent summer and yet not one of those have been of any help to us whatsoever up until now which for me, is the most frustrating aspect of this summer up until now.

I guess this is probably the summer equivalent of what has happened in our most recent winters in which we have had two easterly QBO winters in the last three years, only for neither of those easterly QBOs to be of any help to us whatsoever in terms of us actually getting a cold winter out of any of that.

In winter, we would typically be looking at a major SSW event to shake things up whereas what is needed now at this time of year is for an ex-hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean to shake things up by taking a track to our west and north over the Atlantic in such a way that it then promotes the building of high pressure either over the UK or just to our east.

That to me, is probably our only route now to any decent summer weather. At the moment though, I can't see any signs of that happening any time soon.

It’s even worse further north with over 72 mm of rain at Forehill WS near Peterhead and reports of flooding. The A90 further north is currently closed.

Only six other months in my 19-years of records have got off to such a horrifically wet start and three of those have been during this past two years of near relentless poison and all were autumn/winter (Jan 2016, Dec 2023, Oct 2014, Oct 2020, Sept 2022, Oct 2023).

Came close to having four consecutive days with 10mm for only the second time (after last December) but Monday fell short at 9.8mm. 

Sunshine of 28.7 hours lower than any other first third of July apart from 2012 but even that was nowhere near as wet with only 32mm. Only 2015 came anywhere near as close on rainfall but that was partly down to a thunderstorm and sunshine levels were near average. 

All of the past three Novembers had sunnier first thirds while 2020 had exactly the same total so the last time November began with less sunshine was in 2019 and none of those Novembers were sunny. Just average/below average levels of sun.

You couldn't make this crap up. It was beyond ludicrous a long time ago and new depths keep being plumbed. This month is truly the worst yet. Can't even get the odd scrap of good weather that everywhere else is seeing. Just a constant stream of vile rubbish putting it well on course to rival July 1957 as the wettest/dullest on record. 

Extraordinary rain stat there Richard. Here in the traditionally wetter west of Ireland Ive only recorded 11.2mm so far this month, which is well below even the July 1st -10th average. Grant it, it looks like it raining most of the time but it has been very dry here. 

I also heard that a pre-season friendly match which Aberdeen FC were due to play in tonight was cancelled because of the weather.

That is something which typically happens in the winter months, but not at this time of the year in what is supposed to be high summer and so, this just shows how bad the weather actually is in many parts of the country just now.

And from memory, those of us who were around in the 50s would say that summers were no better then than in the 60s and 70s..

Now you realise why foreign holidays became the thing as soon as cheap air transport became available.

That time we had decent winters and more variety to keep us interested but all gone now. 

True David, though, I was still a fragment of DNA in the fifties and yet to meet the egg.

For anyone who wants a feel of the Seventies, try looking at almost any of the Giles cartoons that capture the dire feel of weather back then. Winters were snowy, summers washouts, and the rest as bad as those two mentioned. Bleak.