Yet another hideous Sunday of vile grey skies, drizzle, cool temperatures and wind 🤢 Once again nothing like what a NW'ly would have produced at this time of year which would have been clear skies overnight and a min well into single figures. Wouldn't have been at all unusual to see a sub 5C min by now as opposed to the rank 12.3C min from which it's barely risen despite being mid-morning 🤬

Absolutely shocking. I haven't seen a properly sunny Sunday here since February. The only Sunday all year to manage 10 hours was 2nd July and that was when I was in Portugal and even that had a short shower 🙄

3.76 hour daily average for Sunday this year - more than 1 hour behind the second worst performing day which is Thursday with 4.78 hours 🤢 Saturday recovered from rock bottom thanks to a good run through June and July but the lack of decent Sundays still means the overall weekend average falls well short of the weekday average.

July wasn't great but it was better than August which has been a really tedious month. Weekends were better and there were 3 days which managed 12 hours sun. Not been a single day managed that in August for the first time since 2011 👎

In fact I'm struggling to recall a single occasion all month when there was a clear sky even for the briefest of periods. As a result the sunniest day has managed only a pitiful 10.3 hours sun which is only just ahead of 2008 which had 10.2 hours on the sunniest day 🤢 It's so poor that even September hasn't recorded such a low total for the sunniest day since 2010 🤢

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The nicer spell in August never reached these parts.

Was lucky to have been away last week (got home yesterday) but here, a week that had looked promising was unsettled and coolish. 

We had some torrential downpours overnight (I've seen some clips from Creamfields, taking place not that far away)

Forecast going forwards isn't exactly inspiring. Output showing the potential odd glimpse of promise as high pressure builds in, only for it to be knocked away from the NW after a depressingly brief 24-48 hours.

It's been an appalling summer (away from the SE, apparently) barring that spell covering late May and first 3 weeks of June.

Maddening how frequently over the past almost two decades the school summer holidays have coincided with the poorest weather of the summer; either the summer has been crap overall (2007-2012) or the best spell(s) have been in the period covering June to mid/late July.


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Summer has gone ,its over! The last couple of days or so,since thursday have felt distinctly autumnal with daytime maxes only briefly touching 18c for a an hour or two plus the last 3 nights have been noticably chilly. Except for June, summer 2023 is one to forget.

The nicer spell in August never reached these parts.

Was lucky to have been away last week (got home yesterday) but here, a week that had looked promising was unsettled and coolish. 

We had some torrential downpours overnight (I've seen some clips from Creamfields, taking place not that far away)

Forecast going forwards isn't exactly inspiring. Output showing the potential odd glimpse of promise as high pressure builds in, only for it to be knocked away from the NW after a depressingly brief 24-48 hours.

It's been an appalling summer (away from the SE, apparently) barring that spell covering late May and first 3 weeks of June.

Maddening how frequently over the past almost two decades the school summer holidays have coincided with the poorest weather of the summer; either the summer has been crap overall (2007-2012) or the best spell(s) have been in the period covering June to mid/late July.


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In my books, May is technically not even a part of summer as it is part of the meteorological spring, so you're really only talking about three weeks of decent weather in your part of the world during the whole of this actual summer.

Here in Edinburgh, we're talking about an even shorter period of decent weather at around that time, at least in terms of it actually being all that warm because we had a lot of cool winds coming in from off the North Sea during the first part of June, so it took quite a while to eventually warm up here.
 

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