Utterly horrendous now. rain lashing down and battering the north facing windows as I guess the wind is becoming more NW in nature. Everytime I look at the radar and it seems like it's going to clear up a little, more heavy showers form and it never shifts away.

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Utterly horrendous now. rain lashing down and battering the north facing windows as I guess the wind is becoming more NW in nature. Everytime I look at the radar and it seems like it's going to clear up a little, more heavy showers form and it never shifts away.

Its the weekend curse !

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Summer has definitely slipped around here in the last 10 days or so. Lots of rain and little in the way of sunshine or dry weather.

I really hope this isn't going to be another year where August ruins the work of a decent June and July but it's looking like it on the models. August ruining the summer really is becoming the most predictable annual weather event in this country.

August is notorious for being unsettled and its unusual to get prolonged dry settled conditions,yet everyone books thier holidays for this month.

September in recent years gone has shown to be much more settled,dry and summery than august and this year im sure will be the same.

I hate to say I told you so, but I believe I suggested much of August would be a write off.
That said, next week looks like we may have a brief window of better weather, which I suggest we all make the most of.
This summer has gone down as the worst for me since 2012, it's been utterly horrendous for 90% of the time.
Let's hope the northern blocking remains in place for the upcoming winter, but Sod's Law suggests it will be replaced by a positive NAO and Zonality throughout, giving us another mild, wet and windy winter.

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I hate to say I told you so

Well we all know that’s a lie. 😂😂😂

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I hate to say I told you so, but I believe I suggested much of August would be a write off.
That said, next week looks like we may have a brief window of better weather, which I suggest we all make the most of.
This summer has gone down as the worst for me since 2012, it's been utterly horrendous for 90% of the time.
Let's hope the northern blocking remains in place for the upcoming winter, but Sod's Law suggests it will be replaced by a positive NAO and Zonality throughout, giving us another mild, wet and windy winter.

A dangerous thing to say, given that we are only on the 8th!

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I hate to say I told you so, but I believe I suggested much of August would be a write off.

Always an agenda, always out to prove a point.  ps. you don't 'hate' to say I told you so...you love it . Even a broken clock is correct twice a day so I suppose it was time your horrendous washout summer (which it isn't of course) came to fruition eventually. 

Anyway back to the models its looking like a fairly mobile and unsettled pattern. Great for the gardens and for convective skies fans like myself. 

 

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Always an agenda, always out to prove a point.  ps. you don't 'hate' to say I told you so...you love it . Even a broken clock is correct twice a day so I suppose it was time your horrendous washout summer (which it isn't of course) came to fruition eventually. 

Anyway back to the models its looking like a fairly mobile and unsettled pattern. Great for the gardens and for convective skies fans like myself. 

 

No, I genuinely do hate to say it, and I'm not trying to prove any point. I would love to have been completely wrong, but this summer for many of us has been awful. I would love to have been completely and utterly 100% wrong, but I haven't been....and that upsets me, because summer is for living, and this summer has been just a disaster, cricket wise, I've never had so many games washed out. More than 40% of all my games have been cancelled, and that is even worse than in 2012.

I am not writing off the whole of August, next week looks useable....but whatever happens for the remainder of summer, it has been at the very least disappointing, and for many, myself included, its been downright terrible.

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Well we all know that’s a lie. 😂😂😂

It really isn't Joe. See my post above.

I've just written off winter as well 🤣🤣 (No not really, but I wouldn't be surprised if the northern blocking dissipates just in time for December). 

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Yet another overcast day which will make it the ludcrous 23rd since the start of July 

Utterly soul destroying. I didn't get up until after 10am today which is practically unheard of even in winter. This stuepfying grim and depressing weather is really taking it's toll. Feel so tired all the time and nothing to get up for when you know you're just stuck indoors all the time and can't make use of the garden

Relentless crud off the sea. Even when the sea is clear like yesterday the clear skies only make it about a mile from the coast and only briefly. Stays in place all day here. God knows where it's coming from. Today there are breaks in the cloud in the sea but they never make it to land. All we get are occasional slivers of sunshine 

Four completely rotten write-off weekends now this summer which matches last year already and that was the worst summer since 2012.

They say a picture paints a thousand words but are there really a thousand swear words in the English language?:

Even the most putrid summer month combinations June/July 2007, July/Aug 2011, June/July 2012 didn't see such relentless and persistent wind from the vile SE quarter and didn't produce the same  extreme lack of diurnal range. Yet another stupidly mild night of 14.4C from which it's risen by a whopping 2 degrees 

Roll on November because it is hard to imagine things could be this bleak even then. Certainly wasn't last year even with a good 10 days of  grey SE'ly muck. Only wrote-off the middle third of the month and was followed by two brilliant weekends.

Sat 21st November 2020 - The River Don at Kemnay

Sun 22nd November 2020 - Sunset over Scolty Hill, Banchory

Sat 28th November 2020 - View from Ben Newe, Strathdon

Sun 29th November 2020 - Aberdeen Beach

Far more pleasant, congenial and enjoyable conditions to be out and about in than the godforsaken pigswill inflicted on us this July/August.

Day in day out of this

or this

adding up to a complete disaster of a summer. Of those three vile combinations of summer months I listed above, which were the three worst I've experienced in my lifetime, June/July 2007 had 37 overcast days, June/July 2012 had 32 and July/Aug 2011 30. Must be a good chance of July/August 2021 beating them all unless there is a change in weather patterns to something even remotely normal 

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It really isn't Joe. See my post above.

I've just written off winter as well 🤣🤣 (No not really, but I wouldn't be surprised if the northern blocking dissipates just in time for December). 

OK Mooms. 👍

It has been a good summer overall here, plenty of dry days and usable weather.

It has been sh*tting it down today however. 

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August is notorious for being unsettled and its unusual to get prolonged dry settled conditions,yet everyone books thier holidays for this month.

September in recent years gone has shown to be much more settled,dry and summery than august and this year im sure will be the same.

 

 

It's dictated by the kids' school holidays. Surely you've heard of them.

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The joke ran out, years ago.........

 

I stopped reading them a long time ago. Read one, you've read them all.

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Another point to be borne in mind is that although most people out there tend to believe that we are most likely to get thunderstorms at the end of a summer heatwave, that's not actually always how it is necessarily going to work out in the end.

I have quite often found that our hottest summers have not actually delivered as many thunderstorms as what I would have expected and I suppose that this is probably down to there being a lot of high pressure around during those summers which means that there just isn't enough instability being created during those summers to actually produce those storms.

In the other hand, I have seen some very poor, wet and miserable summers deliver quite a lot of thunderstorms to these parts (although that doesn't always end up happening). That is probably because those summers are usually much more low pressure dominated which means that the air is generally a lot more unstable on average with those storms tending to occur when the low pressure is centred slap bang on top of us.

That is despite the fact that we get relatively little in the way of heat during those poorer summers and the fact that we have even been been getting thunderstorms here during a few of our most recent winters (such as in February 2018 and during last winter) shows that you don't always even need a preceding build-up of heat to produce these storms.

 

Yes, I would largely agree with you hear Johncs, although a similar heat surge in July 2013 did end up finishing with a good old fashioned thundery spell that lasted many days, but in contrast to that, thunder was more of a feature before that record breaking hot spell in late June 2018 than it was after it. 

Thunderstorms in winter still need heat though, and this is usually taken from the nearby ocean rather than land fuelled as it would be at this time of year, though these showers running up against coastal uplands can help 'big 'em up' further.! Nothing like a boisterous winter's night watching lightning flashing away towards the western coastlands. Hopefully many such instances this coming season. 

 

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I stopped reading them a long time ago. Read one, you've read them all.

In contrast, when I see that Richard has posted, I prepare: Cup of hot tea, a couple of biccys and a freshly made rolled up cig so as to enjoy in comfort his written experiences of Aberdeen weather because, unlike the actual weather there, they are colourful to the extreme! 

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My moan is I've had to water the fuchsias I planted a week ago. There's been so little rain that it hasn't had much effect - just makes the very top of the soil wet, then it evaporates away.

1.2mm of rain today, 3.8mm yesterday, but all in the form of brief showers (think 5 minutes max) rather than anything more prolonged.

It really is amazing how the North Downs break up rain coming in from the SW!

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This will go down as one of the worst summer weekends of all time in my part of the world. It’s been awful. Yesterday morning was JM just awful and today has been slightly better but still windy with heavy showers.

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Constant heavy showers here in Fulham with gusty winds and very cool temps apparently the weather improves later this week but I won’t hold my breath

Thunderstorm warnings yesterday, today and tomorrow for my area. So far, zero thunder, not sure anyone in NW England heard any thunder yesterday nor even today so far. 

3 days of warnings for thunderstorms and I think there may have been one thunderstorm on Friday for the north of Cumbria, Vast majority of the NW England region didn't hear one rumble of thunder.  

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3 days of warnings for thunderstorms and I think there may have been one thunderstorm on Friday for the north of Cumbria, Vast majority of the NW England region didn't hear one rumble of thunder.  

... and there was me thinking that Manchester got all of the more "interesting" weather which is around.

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