Finally its over! After a week of hell, today is the 1st day ive felt human again with a very pleasant 20c imby,no sun and thick cloud cover

Finally its over! After a week of hell, today is the 1st day ive felt human again with a very pleasant 20c imby,no sun and thick cloud cover

Yes indeed it is though it never even went out with a bang here though some had a good light show.

Like a November day too. Soon will be feeling the effects of SAD. Where are those Vit E tablets?

The beach beckons this evening.  Apparently Chesil Beach in places is like a long shingle toilet such have been the numbers of people camping there. A place to avoid until the autumnal storms have refreshed it.

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Finally its over! After a week of hell, today is the 1st day ive felt human again with a very pleasant 20c imby,no sun and thick cloud cover

For me, it's not really fully over. Yes, 20 c would be pleasant during the day, trouble is it's now 11.30 pm and is still 20.0 c on the nose but with 91% h & no wind adding to the clamminess - so effectively the dewpoint is no different to when we had the heatwave. It's still a stuffy 32 c indoors with windows open and a fan going.

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Should be waking up to glorious sunshine over Loch Leven but instead stuck in this suicide inducing hellhole waking up to another day of soul destroying featureless grey garbage 

Third day of this unrelenting mind-numbing featureless easterly crap and it's worse than ever with the temperature exhibiting a ridiculous 0.3C range since midnight - stuck between 13.6 and 13.9C  

When this filth comes to an end we then have a washout week to endure. One of the worst ever Augusts to conclude one of the worst ever summers. A cool, wet, dull and depressing disaster. The entire period since April has been a catastrophic write-off like no other year thanks to a combination of ridiculous lockdowns and vile weather. Absolutely sick of living a miserable existence with zero enjoyment 

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You were moaning about how hot your flat was and the great British weather is dealing with it and now you are moaning again.

In fairness surely it's OT if you are not moaning here  I'm with him on this. The heat and humidity was such last week that you could do nothing. It was unbearable. It has gone from that to grey, cool and miserable. If you are a keen gardener like me and you have not had a single downpour or thunderstorm then the sight of a burnt up garden and a lawn covered in autumnal brown leaves there is little to cheer. However I did break my zero August rainfall with 1.2mm of drizzle this morning. 

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Third day of zero sunshine, dark gloomy disgusting garbage continues, 15.5c spells of drizzly muck. Outlook for model runs does not inspire any confidence for the rest of August.

Still very uncomfortably humid and warm at nights. Exeter had a night time low of 20c and now the temperature has fallen to 19.5c. Just hope the nights cool down sometime.

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Weird weather today. Warmer, at 19C, at the top of Cairngorm mountain than at 2 of the 3 CET sites and only a degree cooler than London.

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When is this rain going to stop!? We had a 3 hour dry window this afternoon which we luckily chose for a walk in the soaked landscape. But other than that it has rained or drizzled all day and is chucking it down now. I don't have a rain gauge but we must be close to 50mm in the last 48 hours.

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When is this rain going to stop!? We had a 3 hour dry window this afternoon which we luckily chose for a walk in the soaked landscape. But other than that it has rained or drizzled all day and is chucking it down now. I don't have a rain gauge but we must be close to 50mm in the last 48 hours.

Weird isn't it. There's me wanting rain and it always misses us just 40 miles to your S.E. A paltry 5.0mm since all of this begun and that is the total for the whole of August. It's like a desert here.

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Weird isn't it. There's me wanting rain and it always misses us just 40 miles to your S.E. A paltry 5.0mm since all of this begun and that is the total for the whole of August. It's like a desert here.

The local differences are astounding.  If you look at the rain radar you can see that new bands of rain keep rotating around the low pressure system but always over the same areas. Some places are getting dumped on while others get none. According to weatheronline nearby Rothamsted has had 55mm in the last 48 hours so my instincts were correct. And it's still pouring down......

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The painful misery continues , the 4th day of zero sunshine, even more mist and fog today, rain & drizzle, 17.5c, but does not feel like it in this damp disgusting gloop. Will have to check my records to see if such a long spell of same garbage lasted this long in recent Augusts.

horrendous weather for August, more like November

Looks like another day of grey muck while stuck here in the city. Lovely and sunny a few miles inland yesterday and no doubt today too, and we are not allowed to go there.

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Looks like another day of grey muck while stuck here in the city. Lovely and sunny a few miles inland yesterday and no doubt today too, and we are not allowed to go there.

It was mostly cloudy here yesterday Michael and again today if that's any consolation...

I have looked back to Augusts from 1991 , and have not found such a dull period with mist,fog and rain and no sun for 4 days in a row, Unprecedented !! 

I have few in the late eighties , will have to try and find those.

 

It was mostly cloudy here yesterday Michael and again today if that's any consolation...

I’m not sure whether to be pleased or disappointed. 

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Not only am I being punished by not being able to get away for the weekend, as planned, I'm being doubly punished with the place I was going getting the best weather in the entire country while I am stuck here being forced to endure the utterly repellent conditions I despise the most

What should have been a great weekend reduced to the levels of enjoyment and pleasure associated with being locked up in a Belarussian jail  

Day four of this ridiculous permacast hell. Approaching noon it's 14C and the same featureless disgusting grey grot that has been covering the sky constantly since last Wednesday evening. This is just ludicrous and akin to what you would have got from an easterly in early spring. A joke for August.

Well over half the sunshine hours for this vile month were recorded in just four days from the 6th to 9th. The rest has been even worse than August 2008 - just a relentless depressing cloudfest. Horrible, horrible month but this is what we are now seeing time and time again. All the sunshine comes at once resulting in these long stretches of hideous soul destroying gloom like nothing we ever got before

A despicable end to another wretched summer scraped from the bowels of hell 

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A despicable end to another wretched summer scraped from the bowels of hell 

"And that's your forecast for now"

 

"And that's your forecast for now"

 

Brilliant.

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Here in Edinburgh, our latest permacast hell has entered only its second day, but this was enough to cause the cancellation of yesterday's Red Arrows fly past which had been due to take place here to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day (as if we hadn't had enough to deal with anyway, thanks to the cancellation of this year's festival due to COVID-19).

Furthermore, we are now halfway through this month, but have had less than 40% of the 1981-2010 August average sunshine at Edinburgh Gogarbank during this month so far with the vast majority of that of occurring on 8th August and 12th August.

In addition to that, today will be our second back to back completely sunless day in a row if the Sun fails to break through at any time during the rest of today.

The exceptionally dull months of June and July had already ensured that this summer would end up being duller than average overall but now, it is clear that even getting a sunnier than average month has become too much to ask for these days, as has getting a drier than average summer month.

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