Another day of omnipresent low cloud and little breeze. Forecasts for yesterday and today here had been for sun/sunny spells.

It was not supposed to go inland from east coast as you are well over 100 miles away from the east coast still get clouds that way too far inland. I find this weather very unsettled and not warm.  Settled only applied when it sunny and warm.

If you look at the TWO front page how the sunny spells look like with some clouds and lovely blue skies was very frequent in the past now no longer exist in this country as it always overcast or sunny?clear skies at wrong time of the day or at nights when we sleeping.  

Here in Edinburgh, it is now beginning to brighten up although there is still a lot of cloud and mist around.

During yesterday, we had a total of 8.1 hours of sunshine at Edinburgh Gogarbank, but that was with the Sun having already broken through by 11am but that is taking a bit longer to happen today.

This means that even if the rest of today is completely sunny, today's sunshine total is going to be lower than yesterday's total.

As at the end of yesterday, we needed to get an average of 7.7 or more hours of sunshine per day between now and the end of this month in order for this month to go down as being sunnier than average overall at Edinburgh Gogarbank, and an average of 8.5 or more hours of sunshine per day in order for this summer to go down as being sunnier than average there overall.

Because it has taken so long for the Sun to break though today, we are probably not going to be able to get any more than around 7.0 hours of sunshine during today at Edinburgh Gogarbank even if the rest of today is completely sunny, and this means that it is already too late for today's total to keep this month on course for being sunnier than average at Edinburgh Gogarbank, regardless of what happens during the rest of today.

If a total of 7.0 hours of sunshine is recorded for today in the end at Edinburgh Gogarbank, that will then leave us needing an average of 7.8 or more hours of sunshine per day during the last 6 days of this month in order for this month to go down as being sunnier than average there, and an average of 8.8 or more hours of sunshine per day during the last 6 days of this month in order for this summer to go down as being sunnier than average these.

Those targets are still possible to be met, but the chances of them being achieved are very small and getting slimmer over time as it stands just now.

That is why we need to at least, start to get some bright and sunny starts to our days because at this time of the year, a completely sunny day can easily still yield more than 10 hours of sunshine which would then result in those targets being met very easily if that continued for the rest of this month.

However, even getting just the one bright and sunny start to any day just seems to be asking for too much these days in this part of the world.

That is why we need to at least, start to get some bright and sunny starts to our days because at this time of the year, a completely sunny day can easily still yield more than 10 hours of sunshine which would then result in those targets being met very easily if that continued for the rest of this month.

However, even getting just the one bright and sunny start to any day just seems to be asking for too much these days in this part of the world.

Used to be very often in the past sunny starts but did not see it anymore with sunny start then some clouds forming and then clear away leaving long sunny evenings.  I remember going out biking in the evenings and mostly sunny evenings.  Just see the picture on TWO front page how sunny spells to period type used to be like before.  That would give your place over 10 hours of sunshine easily.

The only 2 things I have to moan about wrt this summer (which has certainly been good summer overall) are the fact that there was no hot weather during the school holidays and that August heat promises in the models moved and shrank and finally disappeared with time.

Another REVOLTING day 

The only part of Scotland apart from extreme coastal fringes, where sheep outnumber humans, that this utter garbage has hung around all day without clearing 

As well as being grey and miserable it was also one of the windiest days of this non-summer 

31 days during one of the vilest ever July/August combinations with less than 3 hours sun. That equals the horror of 2011 and just one more needed to equal 2012 the worst summer of the past 140 years.

Had June been swapped with May this would probably rank in the top 5 worst summers in the last century but June has saved it from that ignominy.

It doesn't matter what kind of divide there is we are always on the wrong side of it suffering relentless crap from the north or east. I defy anyone to find another place that has seen as little better-than-average summer weather since 2007 as we have here 

Another REVOLTING day 

The only part of Scotland apart from extreme coastal fringes, where sheep outnumber humans, ...

Yes, I did wonder why your local football team (that is, Aberdeen F.C.) are often referred to as the Sheep.

Been nice the last few days. It's just a shame I've not been able to have the windows open to get a nice breeze in because of the selfish cockhead up the road who keeps burning stuff in his garden.

Our next door neighbours (not nice people at all) decided to get two yappy dogs last spring and it has been nightmarish to even go into to work or enjoy our own back garden on a warm summer evening.  Every little noise just triggers them off into an endless, frenzied and head wreaking yapping session. Ourselves and other neighbours have complained to them but they seem to enjoy rising people.  

 

Our next door neighbours (not nice people at all) decided to get two yappy dogs last spring and it has been nightmarish to even go into to work or enjoy our own back garden on a warm summer evening.  Every little noise just triggers them off into an endless, frenzied and head wreaking yapping session. Ourselves and other neighbours have complained to them but they seem to enjoy rising people.  

Shoot the owners, not the dogs as they did not training them or remove them. Lot of dogs in here but all very well behaved and if we make noise never response with barking, so that mean the owners here had trained them very well.

Another day of omnipresent low cloud and little breeze. Forecasts for yesterday and today here had been for sun/sunny spells.

Not sure about today but the lovely Owain did warn us on Monday night about a cloudy day the next day (Tuesday)! 😂

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August here. Sunshine hours appalling. ⁠

 

Not sure about today but the lovely Owain did warn us on Monday night about a cloudy day the next day (Tuesday)! 😂

Owain is great, isn't he? More camp than a row of tents! I must admit his style took some getting used to but he is always immaculately turned out, never the same outfit twice it would seem, he is quite the dandy!

 

Owain is great, isn't he? More camp than a row of tents! I must admit his style took some getting used to but he is always immaculately turned out, never the same outfit twice it would seem, he is quite the dandy!

He is wonderful. As you say, camp as Christmas - a massively positive role model for the LGBT community in the NW and he clearly loves his weather and knows his stuff. 

Dianne Oxberry’s death absolutely knocked me sideways, I’m not ashamed to admit, it really upset me. More than any other celebrity death I’ve ever heard of. Having a love of weather means you have a connection with these people especially when you’ve grown up watching them. 

Owain is great and a very fitting replacement. 

 

He is wonderful. As you say, camp as Christmas - a massively positive role model for the LGBT community in the NW and he clearly loves his weather and knows his stuff. 

Dianne Oxberry’s death absolutely knocked me sideways, I’m not ashamed to admit, it really upset me. More than any other celebrity death I’ve ever heard of. Having a love of weather means you have a connection with these people especially when you’ve grown up watching them. 

Owain is great and a very fitting replacement. 

He's nuts - but really likeable.

I was relieved they didn't give the job to Eno. 

 

 

He's nuts - but really likeable.

I was relieved they didn't give the job to Eno. 

I remember Eno. She tried her best but was no substitute for Diane Oxberry.

In this rotten summer of utterly repulsive Sundays it looks like the absolute worst has been saved for last 

Averaging under 4 hours sun, when all other days are between 5 and 7 hours, and what do we have for the final Sunday? Endless featureless grey overcast crud spewing down from the north yet again. Drizzly rain, wind and appalling temperatures.

It's been stuck between 12 and 13C since 8pm yesterday - nearly 15 hours with less than a degree of range. That lack of variation is just surreal in summer and like nothing on earth we would have ever seen before but par for the course in these days of extreme tedious grey nothingness 

Looks like yet another complete write-off day of utter hell in which we will equal July/August 2012's total of 32 overcast days with under 3 hours sun. Then two more chances to beat that utterly horrific total which is so bad it should be unbeatable 

Today is the last weekend day I'll be here until 25th September. By then I would hold out little hope of anything summery so that is likely it in terms of summer weekend weather. What an awful year it's been in that respect.

It would be possible to get more summery feeling weather in November than the utter filth inflicted on us this month. 5th November last year was better than the vast majority of days in this vile August. Even the low November sun feels more summery than no sun at all due to it being stuck behind thick overcast grot all the time 

In this rotten summer of utterly repulsive Sundays it looks like the absolute worst has been saved for last 

Averaging under 4 hours sun, when all other days are between 5 and 7 hours, and what do we have for the final Sunday? Endless featureless grey overcast crud spewing down from the north yet again. Drizzly rain, wind and appalling temperatures.

It's been stuck between 12 and 13C since 8pm yesterday - nearly 15 hours with less than a degree of range. That lack of variation is just surreal in summer and like nothing on earth we would have ever seen before but par for the course in these days of extreme tedious grey nothingness 

Looks like yet another complete write-off day of utter hell in which we will equal July/August 2012's total of 32 overcast days with under 3 hours sun. Then two more chances to beat that utterly horrific total which is so bad it should be unbeatable 

Today is the last weekend day I'll be here until 25th September. By then I would hold out little hope of anything summery so that is likely it in terms of summer weekend weather. What an awful year it's been in that respect.

It would be possible to get more summery feeling weather in November than the utter filth inflicted on us this month. 5th November last year was better than the vast majority of days in this vile August. Even the low November sun feels more summery than no sun at all due to it being stuck behind thick overcast grot all the time 

I have a feeling that winter will deliver full sunshine days and this morning was clear but as I open other curtains the clouds was extremely fast forming to over cast here as you blink it and next is very cloudy.  The speed of clouds building it noticeable but very slow to clear off.  Need this dirty cold HP out of the way.  

"Go west, young man!" seemed to be the advice the forecast was saying. The interminable and depressing low cloud was only supposed to reach to far NE of Wales, so we headed much further west for a last beach hurrah of the summer. 

The forecast for today for where we decided on was 21c and sunny.

The reality was the low cloud stretched much further.

When a very hazy sun did make a few brief appearances late in the afternoon, the temp rose to 19c. It was almost enough to get me to take my hoody off.

   The speed of clouds building it noticeable but very slow to clear off.  Need this dirty cold HP out of the way.  

This same high has brought very sunny and very warm/humid conditions over here, though today was cloudier and relatively cooler but still very dry. Hasn't rained in what seems like ages.