Travelling to my concert rehearsal in Farrington Gurney yesterday evening was in sunshine. Had the sun visor down all the way.

---

Manchester Summer Indices

2019 143 (up to 13th June)
1954 143
1907 147
1956 155
1912 156
1924 158
2012 164
2008 168
1987 169
1946 170
1909 171
1931 173
1978 173
1980 173
1920 174
1923 174
2007 174
1927 175
1948 176
1938 177
1922 178
2011 179
1985 180

 

Yay! Made it to the top of the rubbish tree!

 

 

---

 

 

Yay! Made it to the top of the rubbish tree!

 

 

But just imagine the horror of living through 1954, when the entire summer was as bad as the first 13 days of June!

---

 

But just imagine the horror of living through 1954, when the entire summer was as bad as the first 13 days of June!

 

It was probably a little bit worse than living through 2012 & 2007   

---

Would rather have lived through summer 1954 than the much worse summers of 2007 and 2012.

While summer 2019 is not has bad as any of them, so far, the year as a whole is much worse. All those years had decent weather in spring whereas 2019 is just staggeringly awful without even the snow that other poor spring/summer years like 1985 and 1993 had.

Not to mention the utterly dire evening/weekend weather. Lucky if there's even been five days all year when I've been able to sit out in the garden after work. Not in all the years I have been working has it been this bad - probably have to go back to 1993 for something as unrelentingly awful and I was still at school then.

Almost given up trying to plan a day out on a Saturday as it is just the same disgusting, horrifically depressing grey crap week in week out. If anything it's just getting worse. More grey garbage today only with the added misery of thick murk and appalling visibility as yet again the wind comes from the repulsive SE quadrant. Looking like potentially the third sunless day out of four 

On course to outdo even 2011 and 2014 for sheer horror weekend weather. Just one mostly sunny Saturday since the start of April and even that was a cooler than average day. Basically no nice warm and sunny weather at all. Even Easter Saturday which remains the warmest day of the year was only sunny in the afternoon.

Looking at the whole of the April to September period the best year for Saturday weather was last year when there were 12 mostly sunny Saturdays and the worst were 2011 and 2014 (no surprises there) when there were only six so we still have a long way to go to even catch up with those horrors. No year had fewer than three by this point.

No wonder all everyone is talking about is how crap the weather has been this year and as usually the stats back it up. Another desperately SAD and depressing horror show. Just had an email offering me deals on summer essentials such as sandals and t-shirts. What a joke as the only summer essentials here these days are raincoats, SAD lamps and Vitamin D pills

---

Would rather have lived through summer 1954 than the much worse summers of 2007 and 2012.

While summer 2019 is not has bad as any of them, so far, the year as a whole is much worse. All those years had decent weather in spring whereas 2019 is just staggeringly awful without even the snow that other poor spring/summer years like 1985 and 1993 had.

 

Did you not get any of the unprecedentedly warm weather in February or the wonderful Easter weekend?

---

Would rather have lived through summer 1954 than the much worse summers of 2007 and 2012.

While summer 2019 is not has bad as any of them, so far, the year as a whole is much worse. All those years had decent weather in spring whereas 2019 is just staggeringly awful without even the snow that other poor spring/summer years like 1985 and 1993 had.

Not to mention the utterly dire evening/weekend weather. Lucky if there's even been five days all year when I've been able to sit out in the garden after work. Not in all the years I have been working has it been this bad - probably have to go back to 1993 for something as unrelentingly awful and I was still at school then.

Almost given up trying to plan a day out on a Saturday as it is just the same disgusting, horrifically depressing grey crap week in week out. If anything it's just getting worse. More grey garbage today only with the added misery of thick murk and appalling visibility as yet again the wind comes from the repulsive SE quadrant. Looking like potentially the third sunless day out of four 

On course to outdo even 2011 and 2014 for sheer horror weekend weather. Just one mostly sunny Saturday since the start of April and even that was a cooler than average day. Basically no nice warm and sunny weather at all. Even Easter Saturday which remains the warmest day of the year was only sunny in the afternoon.

Looking at the whole of the April to September period the best year for Saturday weather was last year when there were 12 mostly sunny Saturdays and the worst were 2011 and 2014 (no surprises there) when there were only six so we still have a long way to go to even catch up with those horrors. No year had fewer than three by this point.

No wonder all everyone is talking about is how crap the weather has been this year and as usually the stats back it up. Another desperately SAD and depressing horror show. Just had an email offering me deals on summer essentials such as sandals and t-shirts. What a joke as the only summer essentials here these days are raincoats, SAD lamps and Vitamin D pills

If last year was such a good year for Saturday weather, does this mean that you will now be updating your signature (which still mentions a weekend "curse" during last year) accordingly?

 

---

 

If last year was such a good year for Saturday weather, does this mean that you will now be updating your signature (which still mentions a weekend "curse" during last year) accordingly?

 

Last year I actually called him out for saying that weekend weather was worse than during the week, when even his own statistics showed that not to be the case. I never received a reply.

---

Manchester Summer Indices

2019 142 (up to 14th June)
1954 143
1907 147
1956 155
1912 156
1924 158
2012 164
2008 168
1987 169
1946 170
1909 171
1931 173
1978 173
1980 173
1920 174
1923 174
2007 174
1927 175
1948 176
1938 177
1922 178
2011 179
1985 180

---

Yet another horrific day here. 10th consecutive day of rain in this horrendous dogsick so called summer. It's absolutely appalling and will not get better. This summer will go down in history as the worst of our lifetime. Rain every day for seems like an eternity it is absolutely rancid disgusting bilge and vomit inducing. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😓😴🥵🥵🤢🤢🤢😵😵😵😡😡😡
It really might as well rain until September or November, and no doubt when winter arrives, we will be "blessed" with perfect summer charts in the height of winter. This country really does produce the worst of the worst. It never ceases to disappoint.
Yes, summer 2019 (and winter 2019-20) are over. Rancid disgusting crapfest. 😡😵🤢🥵😴😓🤬

---

After a murky start to the day it has developed into a very pleasant afternoon and evening with good sunny spells. Not warm but nice enough to sit outside and enjoy the sun.

---

Yet another horrific day here. 10th consecutive day of rain in this horrendous dogsick so called summer. It's absolutely appalling and will not get better. This summer will go down in history as the worst of our lifetime. Rain every day for seems like an eternity it is absolutely rancid disgusting bilge and vomit inducing. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😓😴🥵🥵🤢🤢🤢😵😵😵😡😡😡
It really might as well rain until September or November, and no doubt when winter arrives, we will be "blessed" with perfect summer charts in the height of winter. This country really does produce the worst of the worst. It never ceases to disappoint.
Yes, summer 2019 (and winter 2019-20) are over. Rancid disgusting crapfest. 😡😵🤢🥵😴😓🤬

Best not look at GavinP's update for July ;)

Not sure what all the fuss is about lol.

We've had two or three days this week with largely unbroken sunshine. Maxes have been between 17-20c most days.

We've dodged the bullet too with regard to rainfall too.

Sun 9th - Nil

Mon 10th 9.4mm

Tues 11th - Nil

Weds 12th - 3.8mm

Thurs 13th - Nil

Fri 14th - Nil

Today - Nil

 

---

 

Best not look at GavinP's update for July ;)

To be honest, I've given up on this summer now, so I'm resorting to trying to emulate Richard in Aberdeen.

Whatever happens now will be a bonus, I think summer is a write-off, and so I couldn't give a damn anymore. 

---

To be honest, I've given up on this summer now, so I'm resorting to trying to emulate Richard in Aberdeen.

Whatever happens now will be a bonus, I think summer is a write-off, and so I couldn't give a damn anymore. 

  Moomin in Oxford!  Competition for you there Richard!

There's really been no hope for poor Richard since he stopped taking his medication!  Thankfully Doc steps in with a bit of reality medicine now and again. 

Anyway, we had a lovely sunny morning then showers from mid afternoon but at least the weather is behaving more like June than November now, unlike the previous four days!

 

---

  Moomin in Oxford!  Competition for you there Richard!

There's really been no hope for poor Richard since he stopped taking his medication!  Thankfully Doc steps in with a bit of reality medicine now and again. 

Anyway, we had a lovely sunny morning then showers from mid afternoon but at least the weather is behaving more like June than November now, unlike the previous four days!

 

It's nice to see Moomin taking a change of tack from what he was previously posting on a regular basis on the MO thread. Given the general pessimistic nature at those posts though, I can see why that this is now probably a more appropriate home for him.

 

---

---

Here in Edinburgh, we have had barely any rain at all over the last week and we haven't had anything like the amount of rain which other parts of the UK have been getting, especially down south and it seems though we have still never managed to shake off that ongoing trend from this time last year where any wet spells end up just being very brief with the next significant dry spell always being just around the corner.

The model output does indicate that there could be further downpours for the southerners in the coming days, although even these aren't likely to be quite as bad as what has being going on down there recently. For here though, the model output continues to show virtually nothing for us in terms of rainfall and I'm struggling at the moment to see just where our next significant rainfall is actually going to come from.

This month did start off on a wet note here, but it is now looking increasingly likely that we will actually end up with no more than average rainfall here and I wouldn't even be surprised if we actually came out slightly drier than average in the end overall during this month with the way that this is going.

As far as the temperatures are concerned, this has been a cold month here overall, and we still haven't yet had a single day during this month where our daytime maximum temperatures have been above average for this time of the year. However, recent days haven't been as cold as what they have been lately, so everything appears to be slowly heading in the right direction there.

As far as sunshine is concerned, this has been a very dull month so far with just the one really sunny day within it. Even now, that continues to remain the case. However, we have started to get a little more in the way of sunshine during recent days than what we were getting beforehand, so even that is at least a small step in the right direction.

When you add all of that together, this might actually end up being not such a bad summer here after all as what it had looked at one point in time, as it would be. As you may well have guessed, this is therefore another gloat from me rather than a moan.

---

In June 2012 we managed a 4 day run without rain(17th - 21st) and temperatures of 22 - 23c ! , not manged a 2 day run without rain this June and since the 1st very poor temperatures . After a promising start with some sunshine this morning it clouded over and started raining around 1130 am today. A real horrid spell of weather , dare I say vomit inducing

To be honest, I've given up on this summer now, so I'm resorting to trying to emulate Richard in Aberdeen.

Whatever happens now will be a bonus, I think summer is a write-off, and so I couldn't give a damn anymore. 

I feel the same and got a horrible feeling this summer could very well be a complete write off.So far it has been utterly dismal and depressing. December 2015 was more summer like than this June!