... and the afternoon on a boat will be a bit wet on Friday.

 

 

FFS, crap weather is bad enough on an ordinary day, but when it buggers up your holiday plans it's a real kick in the nads.

We'll be taking our holiday abroad next year and f*** the environment.

This country has such a sh*te climate. 

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Summers in order with the best at the top and the worst at the bottom

1976 301

1995 298

1983 278

1955 277

1911 274

2018 272

1984 271

1959 269

1975 268

1949 267

1989 262

1947 255

1933 251

1901 249

1921 249

2003 247

2013 247

1925 246

2006 246

1996 245

1935 243

1994 240

1934 238

1940 238

2021 237 (up to 17th Aug)

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... and the afternoon on a boat will be a bit wet on Friday.

 

 

FFS, crap weather is bad enough on an ordinary day, but when it buggers up your holiday plans it's a real kick in the nads.

We'll be taking our holiday abroad next year and f*** the environment.

This country has such a sh*te climate. 

 

If only you'd known you could have gone to Fife's amazing beaches! A sunny three days and 21-24 C

.........I'll shut up now 🙄

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If only you'd known you could have gone to Fife's amazing beaches! A sunny three days and 21-24 C

.........I'll shut up now 🙄

 

Turned out not that bad today. Occasional sunny spells and when you're in a wetsuit the temp isn't that much of an issue.

Still despise the UK climate, though.

If we could have summers like 1995 and winters like 2009/10 every year, spring and autumn could be as wet and windy as they liked and I'd be a happy chappy. 

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Turned out not that bad today. Occasional sunny spells and when you're in a wetsuit the temp isn't that much of an issue.

Still despise the UK climate, though.

If we could have summers like 1995 and winters like 2009/10 every year, spring and autumn could be as wet and windy as they liked and I'd be a happy chappy. 

It would be even worse if you'd holidayed locally in Lancashire.

Dull, drizzly here again today . Max temp just over 15c

Only about an hours sun in total this week. 

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It's been a really poor few days of weather here. None stop drizzle, grey skies, cold temperatures, nights drawing in. It's hard to believe that August is a summer month these days. My thoughts have started drifting to winter

It's been a really poor few days of weather here. None stop drizzle, grey skies, cold temperatures, nights drawing in. It's hard to believe that August is a summer month these days. My thoughts have started drifting to winter

It's been a poor August round here - Not so much cold - but sunshine hours have been very poor.

 

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Cloudy days are not liked for summer. Day or night. 

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This month must be the most average and boring month on record for my location. So far every day the max temperatures have ranged from about 18-22c, rainfall has been around 40mm so far which must be very close to average, and sunshine hours feel as though they have been average or slightly below average. Several days recently have just been bland and cloudy with occasional sunny spells, occasional drizzle, and a moderate breeze with max temperatures around 18/19c. Having said that the weather has been very 'useable' for outdoor activities, and not problematic in the slightest. If every month was like this it would be extremely boring but completely non-disruptive.

Sums it up well.

Not a disaster , just boring.  Last two days have been particularly tedious, apart from about 30 mins of warmth yesterday when the cloud broke.  It resulted in places east of here getting very warm, E.g Bridlington 25c. 

At least I haven't had the heating on yet, which does happen from time to time in August. 

 

 

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It just gets worse and worse. Vilest spell yet from the most dismal and depressing summer since 2012 

Relentless featureless overcast filth since Wednesday lunchtime which is now producing the 7th consecutive write-off overcast weekend day with not even a semblence of decent useable weather. Grey filthy manky murky garbage with the wind coming from the SE quarter as it now does constantly. Ludicrous temperatures with the last two days failing to reach 15C but last night failing to drop below 14C 

This even surpasses 2012 and is the WORST run of weekend weather since June 2007 when there were eight repulsive write-offs in succession. That is not just in summer but any time of year. The last time, and probably only time, I can recall such a comparably awful run in winter would have been December 2002 

The number of overcast days this July/August is already the highest since 2012 and I think it will even surpass that which shouldn't even be possible. It's mind-bogglingly awful. Stuck at home all week then slapped in the face with this garbage every weekend. Punished for doing nothing wrong.

The toll living in this hellhole is taking on my health is incalculable. The stats for this month are just appalling. Average step count is the lowest I've ever recorded at barely 5000 per day. Can't even make up for it on the bike as can't get out on any long cycles of 20, 30, 40 miles when every single weekend it is the same grey, dismal drizzly garbage with no usable slots. 12 miles is the best I've managed. To put that into context I managed 14 miles one day in last years rank exceptionally wet and miserable December 

Total mileage for this month a dismal 116 miles. I managed over 400 miles in June, 145 miles in the second half of February and 204 miles last November. It's just an utter joke that a so called summer month can be this repulsive.

Not only would a vaguely normal pre-2007 summer month feel like the Med by comparison but even stinkers like 2008 and 2011 would. I thought they were about the worst you could get in August but compared to this horror show there were oodles of decent weekend weather to be enjoyed in both months as evidence below.

Lossiemouth, Saturday 16th August 2008

Balmedie, Saturday 23rd August 2008

River Dee at Banchory, Sunday 23rd August 2008

Balmedie, Saturday 13th August 2011

Elie, Fife, Saturday 20th August 2011 (where I'm now reduced to taking my main summer holiday instead of day trip)

Fine summer evening near my house, Sunday 21st August 2011

Even when it was cloudy, in 2008 at least, we got these interesting cloudscapes such as this convective cloud at Aberdeen beach on Sunday 10th August:

Contrast that with the grubby, featureless, energy zapping, winter-like dross to be seen today, every single weekend day this month and the majority of days since the start of July:

When a month is so bad it makes you feel nostalgic for the likes of August 2008 and 2011 there are just no words 

 

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Lossiemouth, Saturday 16th August 2008

 

 

 

It was like that 16th August this year. I posted a webcam link that day.

Asked for your comment....but surprise, surprise, that's brushed under the carpet.......

https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twocommunity/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1369894#post1369894

 

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Good God what a crap week this has been. I've hardly seen any sun all week and it's just been cloud with on-and-off drizzle with temperatures stuck in the mid-teens. A few people in work have been commenting on what a crap month August tends to be nowadays, so it's clearly not just us weather enthusiasts that are noticing this trend.

At least the next week or so is looking better. Low 20s and sunshine will feel like a heat wave compared to this.

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Good God what a crap week this has been. I've hardly seen any sun all week and it's just been cloud with on-and-off drizzle with temperatures stuck in the mid-teens. A few people in work have been commenting on what a crap month August tends to be nowadays, so it's clearly not just us weather enthusiasts that are noticing this trend.

At least the next week or so is looking better. Low 20s and sunshine will feel like a heat wave compared to this.

Yep, this has been pretty much a write off August, as seems to be the case every year these days.

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Apart from today (Sat 21st) we have had a reasonable week. Dry with spells of sunshine and maxes of 18 - 22 C. East Fife had 22 - 24 C earlier in the week.

Today however we have had substantial rain all day which was well forecast

The next few days will see a return to fine weather and 20 - 22 C.

Just wanted to point out not all of us are having a bad August

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Summers in order with the best at the top and the worst at the bottom

1976 301

1995 298

1983 278

1955 277

1911 274

2018 272

1984 271

1959 269

1975 268

1949 267

1989 262

1947 255

1933 251

1901 249

1921 249

2003 247

2013 247

1925 246

2006 246

1996 245

1935 243

1994 240

1934 238

1940 238

1941 236

2014 236

1970 235

1969 234

1973 234

1999 234

2021 233 (up to 20th Aug)

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Apart from today (Sat 21st) we have had a reasonable week. Dry with spells of sunshine and maxes of 18 - 22 C. East Fife had 22 - 24 C earlier in the week.

Today however we have had substantial rain all day which was well forecast

The next few days will see a return to fine weather and 20 - 22 C.

Just wanted to point out not all of us are having a bad August

Yes, and that is at least partially confirmed by the fact that Edinburgh Gogarbank only yesterday, had its first completely sunless day of this month even though there is now just over a week left of this month.

However, there was a completely sunless day earlier on during this month at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh and this month's sunshine totals at Edinburgh Gogarbank are well down on where they should be.

The outlook for the coming week is looking good and so, it is still possible for this month to end up being sunnier than average at Edinburgh Gogarbank. For that to happen though, virtually every day from now on will need to be completely sunny and I have a feeling that our chances of that happening might be scuppered by easterly muck coming in from off the North Sea, especially given where the exact position of the high pressure is likely to end up.

Having said that though, this summer as a whole will go down as being sunnier than average at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh regardless of what happens between now and the end of this month because as at 20 August, there was already more sunshine there than the 1981-2010 summer average for that particular station.

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Not just having a bad August here but the worst August that has ever been recorded.

In June 2007 I thought I must have died and gone to hell experiencing weekend after weekend of hideous, depressing sunless murk. I'm feeling exactly the same now.

It beggars belief we could get three weekends in a row as vile as the last three only to be followed by a fourth which is even worse.

No sunshine on Wednesday afternoon or evening, 0.1 hour on Thursday nothing on Friday or yesterday and yet again another day of soul destroying featureless grey filth covering the sky. Hard to see where any sun is coming from today when yet again there is just endless crap streaming in off the North Sea. 

Day after suicide-inducing day of featureless depressing overcast which would be a disgrace in the depths of winter.

The grim weekend sun totals:

1st - 2.1

7th -0.9

8th - 2.8

14th -2.1

15th -1.0

21st -0.0

Another zero today would give an average of 1.27 hours which is the same as June 2007 and only one other month with worse than that which was December 2016 with 1.0 hour but in % terms that is nowhere near as bad as this

2008 and 2011 - the two worst Augusts of the 21st Century were nowhere near as bad as this so lets look at the two worst Augusts of the 20th Century - 1912 and 1963

Weekend Sunshine totals for August 1963:

3rd - 9.2

4th -0.1

10th - 0.1

11th -0.4

17th - 7.1

18th -1.2

19th -1.3

25th - 4.0

31st -0.0

Grim reading and would have been regarded as the worst you could get but still two decent days and a half decent day so nothing like as pitiful as the worst you can get these days. No weekend curse either as the average was comparable to the weekdays.

Perhaps 1912 will have been as bad as this month so let's look at that:

3rd -8.5

4th -0.0

10th - 0.0

11th -8.2

17th - 0.5

18th -1.7

24th - 5.3

25th -9.4

31st -7.6

Clearly not. No such thing as the weekend curse back then. Quite the opposite with about 60% of the month's sunshine coming at the weekend and the average of 4.6 hours higher than any the crap Augusts of 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2018 and 2020 managed 

Another stinker of an August was 1962. Wettest of the 20th Century and failed to hit 20C so lets look at the weekend sunshine for that apparently awful month:

4th - 12.8

5th - 4.8

11th - 8.6

12th -10.2

18th - 7.8

19th -1.9

25th - 9.5

26th -0.7

Not bad at all and in fact over 7 hours so once again no 'weekend curse' which is purely a 21st Century phenomenon for which no rational explanation exists. Present virtually every summer since 2007 turning bad summer months into abject horrors, average to poor and good to mediocre.

I'd take August 1962 over just about any of the steaming piles of excerement I've endured year in year out since 2007. Even many of the few so-called good summer months in that timeframe, including June 2021, failed to acheive 7 hours weekend sun average. So what does that say when even an exceptionally wet month from the worst decade for summers in the 20th Century did?

It tells us that the run of summers since 2007 are the worst in recorded history. Unprecedentedly awful, miserable and wretched with the 'weekend curse' responsible for practically all of the huge sunshine deficit that's been accumulated.

Truly feels that the climate we endure today has been engineered by humans with the sole objective of punishing. This relentless 'weekend curse' is just incomprehensible and has no explanation in nature when the concept of weekday v weekend is purely a man-made distinction. It is just not something which should exist over a period as long as 15 years.

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My summary of Summer 2021 - Nothing to write home about! 

It been a summer without very high temperatures (above 32.9 C), unlike that of 2020, 2019, 2018, & really for 1st time since 2014 (32.2 C). However, 2014 was quite sunny & very warm in June & July, but this Summer had only roughly one week of very warm, sunny spell in mid July. The rest of it was dull, rather cool & quite miserable (Sheffield). (2017 Summer was quite poor after June).

Very rarely had good nights for Astronomy too.

What's that bright thing in the sky? Should I be worried? Is it the Russian nuclear armada about to strike?

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Only just got around to posting this. On the London BBC forecast on Friday, I think it was, the presenter said that Heathrow Airport had recorded 64 hours of sunshine up to the 20th. The August total average is 188, so on a daily basis they were running at 50% of the average. With a cloudy weekend and cloud cover likely to be hit and miss this week (it is a dull morning here again), I think we'll struggle to stay at 50% of the final total for August, let alone exceed it.

This will go down as one of the worst Augusts I can remember due to the lack of sunshine.

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