2023 shaping up to be another poor summer after a good start.

It's the same with our winters as well. Winters tend to be front-loaded (like 2010-11 or last winter), backloaded (like 2012/13 or 2017/18) or just plain old mild and completely snowless (such as 2019/20).

Never before, can I remember us ever having a winter which had a really cold December and February, as well as mild and completely snowless January.

Going off at a slight tangent, winter 2017-18 was somewhat like that. December 2017 was quite chilly (we very nearly had a cold December, it was just the few days before Christmas which stopped it from being so) and then February 2018 was also quite chilly, culminating in the BFTE at the end. January 2018 on the other hand was largely mild and lacked any cold spell.

That said, I don't think there has been a case of a notably cold December and February, with a mild January in between though...

I wonder if this will become known as the 'sh*t sandwich' summer? Warm both top and bottom but utter crap in between 🙂

I think 2009 was that sort of summer, at least for E Anglia.

Grey, dull, cool, miserable and depressing rubbish. Looks like it could rain. Pointless crap that just sits there ruining the day. The same garbage as we had for much of the second half of July under low pressure. Worse than what has been typical under low pressure since late July, which has been okay but not brilliant. This is not okay. It's complete and utter 💩

Beyond a joke when you get pretty much the longest run of low pressure ever seen in summer and when the high pressure arrives the conditions are even worse 🙄

So far, August has seen normal temperatures, rainfall and sunshine. The last week has seen most days reaching 20 C with warm sun between some brief but heavy showers.

Looks like August will be our warmest month this year. 

Summer's not gone away down here... here's Southend, for example, from today's 12z GFS!

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/summer.jpg 

Storm Betty is fairly strong here at the moment. 

I feel sorry for the people on holiday at the moment.

Storm Hilary will be more interesting than this boring one.  One to watch on Sunday when it strike Death Valley, sending temps down nearly 20C below average from 46C in August with lot of rain and winds.  Not being hit by the major storm since 1939 in California from the BBC news I read recently.

Completely sunless yesterday and today has started with more ridiculously wet weather which has cleared to disgusting thick murk reminescent of June 2007 and the utterly foul and depressing spring just gone. Temperature has been stuck between 13 and 16C for the past 36 hours. Horrific lack of temperature variation like nothing ever seen in summer before the weather hell of the 21st Century 💩

What a year of worthless, sickening and applling tripe. It just won't relent. Any time an improvement appears to be on offer it ends up getting worse 🤢🤢🤢

If Hilary was on the way here, first temperatures are 25-30C with sunshine from a southerly flow, follow by thunderstorms and temperatures dropping to 20-22C then high rainfall total, storms winds and thunder with temps of 12-15C day time,  Follow by few showers and temps rising back to average follow by prolonged settled warm sunny weather.  That would be a better set up than Low stuck in the UK for several weeks to few months.

Currently in Tuscany. Highs since I have arrived are 38c, 37c, 37c ,37c 37c, 39c, 38c with similar temps until fly home on Friday then looks depressingly cool at home . Something in the middle would be nice. 

No air con here either as many country Italian houses don't have it. Coping ok with fans and open windows all night but would like it to be cooler around 32c, the old average .  37c seems like the new norm here now. 

Not a single day with sunshine at lunchtime. Just the same dismal grey overcast crud that constantly infests the synoptics that used to deliver decent weather in the past 🤢

Joke levels of sunshine yet again in places e.g. 35 hours in 20 days at Eskdalemuir. Don't ever recall seeing such pitiful levels of sun before but now it's practically every single summer 😴

Sounds unpleasant, but I don't like heat - it certainly wasn't much fun lugging boxes of computers across the playground at work yesterday, in strong sunshine and the same 25C that you've had.

Incidentally you didn't need to go to France, Kent would have done. It's been sunny and dry for the past few days, highs of 25, 27 and 25 for the past three days - and it should be another effortless 25 this afternoon.

Any computer does not like the heat and can freeze or over heating it.   

Sounds perfect.  Florence airport is above 39c today, (nearest station), the warmest day yet (8 days at 37-38c). The pool and the car are the only relief! 

​​​​​​Had similar in Malta last summer, which was far from ideal when you want to do a bit of sightseeing. As you say, being in a pool brings so much relief! Hope you have A/C!!

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Another unpleasant night beckons, but at least we've lost a couple of hours of daylight since June - it means it's already starting to cool down a bit, rather than that happening long after I've gone to bed!