It's also pleasant to experience what I had in my childhood. It's only warmed up a couple of degrees since then (e.g. Faversham max 21.2 in July, 61-90, max 23.1 July 91-20), but those two degrees have made all the difference - my bedroom going from 23-25 back then, for example, to 25-30 in a typical summer these days, and meaning when extreme warmth arrives it's amplified that bit more.

It's unlikely to continue, and I fully expect the second half of summer to be comparatively warmer - we really have been incredibly lucky in being in one of the few cooler spots of the hemisphere so far this summer.

For those who feel depressed for whatever reason, now you know how I feel every summer!

It will be interesting to see what happens in the second half. Summer 2012 did improve slightly in the second half. The last week of July seen a few days of warm and dry weather and August wasn't bad overall. If this one doesn't see something similar, it will very easily dip below 2012 then.

That's very much true. The summers of the 50s and 60s were all bad apart from summer 1959. In the 1960s a mate of my father's said. "You can't have a proper holiday here in Britain. You've got to go abroad ". That's how bad it was.   🙂 

Day after day after day of wrist-slittingly awful stupefying cold, grey unpleasant filth. The worst summers of my childhood were like heaven compared to this heinous rubbish akin to being in a bleak subarctic wasteland unfit for human habitation.

Day after day of this vile grey blanket suffocating the life out of everything. I was supposed to be in Italy but had to cancel and reschedule the holiday and this is the crap I'm being slapped in the face with. 

On course for a duller first half of the month than even the infamously grotesque abomination of June 2007. July 2012 is the only summer month even remotely comparable to this extreme sunless horror in the last 50 years. Nothing from the 70s, 80s or 90s was anywhere near as dreadful. It is worse than any of the terrible dull wet Novembers we've endured since 2018.

Every single day is utter crap. Not one day has managed 6 hours sun. Highest daily duration has been 5.7 hours - the same as was managed on 1st December last year. Not even the wettest December in 150 years could put together a string of relentless filth like this. Not even close. 

Also not one day has managed 19C when that was achieved during the rotten cold, dull, wet April we just had. 21st Century summers are a sick joke you couldn't make up unless you had a truly warped mind. I've said it before and I'll say it again the 50s and 60s summers were nowhere near as unrelentingly poor as the tenth rate rubbish we are subjected to in this godawful century of bottom of the barrel scraped tripe.

Supposed to be the warmest time of year and need central heating on as the cold sunless crud drains the house of warmth. Down to just 16.6C indoors this morning following only 2 hours sun in three days and yet another sunless weekend horror today.

This is the 9th worse than average July out of 10. A consistently awful run like nothing ever seen before. Even the 60s had four acceptable Julys with over 170 hours sun and under 50mm of rain - 1964, 1966, 1967 and 1969. Only 2018 has managed 170 hours in the last decade and even it was over 50mm due to the horrid wet end. It's just unreal. 2014 was the last July under 50mm and 2006 the last time under 40mm. An absolutely disastrous run.

Unless there is substantial improvement soon this month will end up even worse than the absolute worst of the 1960s - August 1963 and July 1968. At the moment it seems well on course to be the worst summer month of all time.

As for today, I ventured outside a short while ago and it actually felt quite chilly in that wind which is coming in from off the North Sea. It certainly doesn't feel like summer out there.

As I write, it's into the afternoon with a temperature of only around 12°C here in Edinburgh. That is actually even lower than that Christmas Day temperature which I mentioned above and yet, this is supposed to be high "summer".

Absolutely pathetic!!😡

All vastly superior and more summerlike than the 13 days of unadulterated pigswill we have endured this month. In fact scrap that description - if you tried feeding something like this to a pig you'd be prosecuted under an animal cruelty act.

February was more of a summer month than this pile of festering filth. Final 13 days of the month had 67.7 hours sun, more than double this months surreal total of 30.8 hours and temperatures got up to 13.5C as opposed to the rancid 12.9C it is now.

Sat out in the garden far more in February than I have in this month. Even in 8C and sunshine it is more pleasurable than attempting to do under a chilly wind and blanket of relentless overcast that even the worst climates on earth don't have to endure constantly when it is supposed to be summer.

Santa Claus Village temps had never drop below 14C since I started viewing them last month, rained once and mostly sunny.   Currently 17C and that warm for an Arctic circle than Scotland.

Each day seems determined to sink to new levels of depravity. Weekend after weekend of grim grey rubbish. Not a single day mainly aunny day in almost 3 weeks. 2 hours of sun in 5 days. Not only can I not face leaving the house but I struggle to get out of bed. 20 consecutive days of utter crap that even the worst of winter months, such as last December, would never sink low enough to produce.

This is on course to not only the worst ever summer month but the worst month at any time of year. It's just an absolute disaster that not even the harshest words of condemnation could do justice to.

This country does not have an appalling quality of life. It has no quality of life whatsoever. Wish it would just sink into the Atlantic and allow us all to be evacuated somewhere with a liveable and survivable climate.

Having to endure this, while the rest of the Northern Hemisphere enjoys summer, is a human rights abuse. 

No corner being turned here. Just continuing on the one way trajectory to hell on earth with yet another mind-numbingly depressing and unpleasant day of overcast cold drizzly garbage. Nothing can illustrate the tediousness of this more than the minimum being exactly the same (10.8C) three nights running.

It's beyond surreal. None of the clearer skies to the south could make it up here and now it's all filled in. Stuck under the permacast cloud that has been sitting there refusing to move since last Tuesday. Once again it defies rational explanation.

6.1 hours of sun in the past week. 31.1 hours for the month which even beats the first half total for June 2007 which used to be the ultimate horror sunless summer month but now there is just no floor on how low things can sink.

What is most preposterous is that we have not had a sunny November since 2017 yet every single November since then recorded more sunshine by the 15th except for 2019 which still managed 29.1 hours so higher in percentage terms.

2018, 2022 and 2023 all horrendously wet and dull Novembers but managed respective totals of 37.8hrs, 32.9hrs and 45.1hrs by the 15th. What the hell is going wrong when a summer month is so catastrophically bad it compares poorly against terrible Novembers?

Even more incredulous, we have had a glut of dull and wet Octobers recently yet none of them have had a first half as sunless as this with the lowest total being 39.9 hours in 2010. June 2007, July 2012, August 2012 and now July 2024 all below that.

21st Century summers truly are the work of Satan.

Tonight might be a bit better (depends on whether we get a random, illegal (C) Jiries, warming in the evening like yesterday)... and then after that, three nights of pure hell.

And as the final turd on top of a manky cake, MetO is now showing 28C on Friday... so not only will it be hot, humid and very unpleasant, but the air will no doubt stink due to barbecues, and getting to sleep will be even harder thanks to the noise... as people suddenly think everyone shares their tastes in music, etc.

Pah, I hate summer. At least we're now losing 2 minutes a day of daylight, I guess, we're only a month away from that magic time when the sun starts to noticeably get weaker!

Absolutely stinking awful day of overcast and drizzle without even a hint of brightness. 2.3 hours of sun in the past week which can only be beaten in summer by 1.6 hours from 5th to 11th June 2012 and 0.8 hours for 7th to 13th July 2012.

Not even June 2007, which at the time was thought to be as vile a summer month as it was possible to get, can match this depraved soul destroying filth. 

Many recent winters have been so dominated by W/SW winds that even they can't match this grot. Winter 2021/22, even with the hideously dull Festive period, never went below 3.9 hours for the lowest 7 day total. Winter 19/20 lowest was 5.9 hours, 18/19 lowest 8.7 hours and 14/15 didn't even have a single weekly period under 15 hours which is astonishing.

There are truly no words at having to endure worse conditions than terrible winter months produced in the middle of summer. Can't imagine anywhere else being this sunless in the entire Northern Hemisphere. It would be easier for the sun to permeate an underground cave system.

Never once during my childhood on the 80s and 90s was there ever such a putrid spell of misery like this in summer. Purely a 21st Century phenomenon. In fact I'm struggling to remember such a wrist-slittingly awful run at any time of year. 2012 managed 26 conseuctive mostly cloudy days in July. Currently the total stands at 22. 

I think even amongst the darkest months of the year only January 1996 could manage that with every single day of that revolting month being mostly cloudy and only 10 hours in total. Even that was nowhere near as depressing occurring in mid-winter as opposed to mid-summer.

July 2012 and July 2024 are simply the two worst months I have ever endured closely followed by June 2007 and June 2012. 20 years ago, when mobile conditions dominated, would never have believed it possible to get such unceassingly awful dross in summer.

My bedroom is on 2nd floor of new build house and the heat builds quickly, this air con unit lowers the temperature from 27c to 22c in half an hour while lowering the humidity as well. Its a bit noisy so I turn it off before going to sleep and the room doesn't really heat up again as the temperature outside falls.

For £200 it's worth every penny.

Andy

Welcome to the a/c club! 😁I started off with one like yours, but it really struggled in my west-facing bedroom (the flat roof of course making it worse - a loft at least traps the heat up there).

My current one is a more powerful affair with two long hoses... meaning the machine sits in the back bedroom, one hose dangles out the window and the other runs across the hallway and is suspended by some twine at the top of my bedroom door, blowing cool air in at a high level (more effective than the usual floor-standing a/c units). I then block the gap with an old shower screen, but of course as soon as it's turned off the heat soon returns. I'll be leaving it going all night starting tomorrow night, I think, and thankfully now it's in a different room entirely the noise isn't as bad... that drrr, drrr, drrr noise portables have does make sleeping a problem, especially if you're a very light sleeper like me!

(As a bonus, that background thrumming drowns out some of the noise from outside, because as we know - nothing like warm weather to encourage people to make a racket.)

I have never recorded a summer month that didn't manage at least one day with 10 hours of sun but this ghastly pile of festering filth can't get anywhere close to that. If you looked at the daily totals without knowing which month it is you would guess January. A beyond pitiful 7.0 hours sun on the sunniest day which is less than was managed by four of the past five Januaries.

Barely 2 hours sun a day, less than 40% of average. At this rate a real chance of it ending with less than the 71.9 hours recorded in January 2024 which was the lowest total for that month since 2016. Once again it's the stuff of nightmares that only an extremely warped mind could ever dream of making up.

Headed for the dullest summer month ever seen in over 140 years  as well as one of the dullest spring/summer combination. 1944 was the only year that both seasons recorded fewer than 400 hours. Seems a very real possibility that 2024 will join it. A torturous endurance test that just keeps on getting more and more unbearable and intolerable.

It sucks that this time around we won't have the saviour of a sea breeze... I can even see the sea from the back bedroom windows of the house, but the wind's from just the wrong direction. It's also just my luck that this time round Sheppey will be within a degree or two of being the hottest place in the UK today, tomorrow and Saturday. Pah.

My electricty bill will be going through the roof today (the portable a/c will be working overtime) and yet I know it's still going to suck trying to sleep tonight. I'm half-zombiefied already and expect to be fully zombiefied tomorrow.

Here is super blue skies a rare sight and not humid more like dry heat type and today 2 years anniversary to see 40C here on that same dry heat but 10C hotter than today forecast.  

But it all gets swept away tomorrow. Thundery showers by lunch and temps to 21c. Sunday should at least be dry - but just 17c.

Further west, they don't even get that. Was looking at Anglesey and their max today is just 20 under cloud. Sunday and 16c.

The same here as well, a beautiful morning. It's just a shame it isn't going to last.

To be honest, I'm perfectly happy with Sunday's weather. Whilst I do prefer a pleasant warmth in high summer, I'm not really bothered about the temperature as long as it's dry and sunny. That's what frustrates me with cool weather in summer - if it didn't always come with cloud, rain and wind, I wouldn't mind it.

We were looking at a trip to Anglesey on Sunday for some paddleboarding. If we do go, it'll be wetsuits 😟

It doesn't matter what synoptic set-up it's just the same poisonous, ugly, revolting and beyond depressing grey mess covering the entirety of the sky. The current set-up would have brought plenty of sunshine in the 20th Century but now nothing but disgusting grey gloom that can barely break to allow the sun to shine for even five minutes at a time.

Yet another 21st Century horror summer month so horrifically bad you just can't believe it's happening. I've never been more depressed in my life being subjected to this demoralising poison day after day.

VILE VILE VILE 

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OK, Jiries, please give Retron his account back