Same age as me! Just left school, getting ready for uni, didnt do the gap yaar thing. Great summer of "discovery". I remember the heat continued right up to the VE Day celebrations at the end of August
 

I remember a sunny but cool day for a VE day children's party - in 1945. Probably a couple of weeks after the actual event.

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Hmm. The pattern on the GFS 6Z has a bit of a summer 2022 vibe about it. Lows becoming cut off around Biscay with High pressure cells over and then drifting East of the UK.
There is currently no real heat to tap into from the south because of the wet spell down there, BUT, if this pattern can rinse and repeat, we may see some interesting weather again this summer - perhaps some volatility too - but plenty of interest in my opinion. 

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Yes agree Moomin I am beginning to wonder though at least for the next 1-3 weeks whether we will come out of these rather cool and gusty NE winds in the south . 

Hmm. The pattern on the GFS 6Z has a bit of a summer 2022 vibe about it. Lows becoming cut off around Biscay with High pressure cells over and then drifting East of the UK.
There is currently no real heat to tap into from the south because of the wet spell down there, BUT, if this pattern can rinse and repeat, we may see some interesting weather again this summer - perhaps some volatility too - but plenty of interest in my opinion. 

A thundery humid summer is something I'd certainly be up for. Some of the teleconnection experts seem to think this is likely this summer. We will see.
 

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A thundery humid summer is something I'd certainly be up for. Some of the teleconnection experts seem to think this is likely this summer. We will see.
 

Not really a fan of humid. Would prefer fresher dry/sunny, even if temps are subdued down to early-/mid-20s.



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New kid on the block?

From Saturday's Times, 
AI set to take world of weather forecasting by storm
relating to an AI forecasting system essentially using pattern matching rather than physics calculations. But it's pattern matching on the grand scale with 30,000TB of data. Its devisors, Atmo, claim it's faster (so as to run many more ensemble forecasts), cheaper, and hyper-local (they have a product for medium range in San Francisco which does 300m x 300m). 

But they admit that 10-14 days is still a practical limit.

The firm
https://www.atmo.ai/ 

A sample output from the 'Global Forecast' menu in the above (it animates)
https://earth.atmo.ai/temperature@52.69971,-0.32290,2.45,0,0,1685363437 
 

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Not really a fan of humid. Would prefer fresher dry/sunny, even if temps are subdued down to early-/mid-20s.

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Ideal for me would be 28c to 32c thunderstorms in the evening.  Very rare recently. 
 

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Hmm. The pattern on the GFS 6Z has a bit of a summer 2022 vibe about it. Lows becoming cut off around Biscay with High pressure cells over and then drifting East of the UK.
There is currently no real heat to tap into from the south because of the wet spell down there, BUT, if this pattern can rinse and repeat, we may see some interesting weather again this summer - perhaps some volatility too - but plenty of interest in my opinion. 

This could age incredibly poorly, but another few  weeks of this spell and I think a repeat of 40C here again is off the table, they really were a special set of circumstances that brought it about, in no small part due to the bone dry ground south of us (and for that matter locally here).

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