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severnside
Saturday, August 12, 2023 11:44:04 AM
Every single weekend from the beginning of July have been unsettled in some way. Some have had a deluge of showers or a complete wash out , strong winds, heavy cloud. Today again wind, showers , heavy cloud racing in the wind, 18c. Nearly mid August now, some pattern change on the way, however it still seems flimsy.  This will be the first time in a while a Summer has not achieved 30c here, unless a late blast of heat comes late in the month. I would rather have a dry settled sunny long spell than useless peaky heat.
2023 shaping up to be another poor summer after a good start.
Bolty
Saturday, August 12, 2023 1:43:37 PM
This could end up being one of the weirdest summers of this century so far. One of the warmest and overall best Junes on record and a well-above average August (potentially, given how easily well above average months develop nowadays), with a cool and exceptionally wet July sandwiched in between. Summers tend to either be frontloaded, backloaded, or warm-hearted. Not "cool-hearted" with heat bookending it at either side.
Scott
Blackrod, Lancashire (4 miles south of Chorley) at 156m asl.
My weather station 
johncs2016
Saturday, August 12, 2023 1:51:36 PM

This could end up being one of the weirdest summers of this century so far. One of the warmest and overall best Junes on record and a well-above average August (potentially, given how easily well above average months develop nowadays), with a cool and exceptionally wet July sandwiched in between. Summers tend to either be frontloaded, backloaded, or warm-hearted. Not "cool-hearted" with heat bookending it at either side.

Originally Posted by: Bolty 



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.
 
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.
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Bolty
Saturday, August 12, 2023 1:55:41 PM

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.
 

Originally Posted by: johncs2016 



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...
Scott
Blackrod, Lancashire (4 miles south of Chorley) at 156m asl.
My weather station 
fairweather
Saturday, August 12, 2023 2:25:02 PM
They forgot to mention the very strong winds in the South East. A quite significant event in terms of how pleasant today might or might not have been!
S.Essex, 42m ASL
Chunky Pea
Saturday, August 12, 2023 6:22:45 PM
Despite the 'fresher' conditions, it remains humid with dew points remaining in the mid teens. No relent at all.
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Col
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Sunday, August 13, 2023 6:55:44 AM

This could end up being one of the weirdest summers of this century so far. One of the warmest and overall best Junes on record and a well-above average August (potentially, given how easily well above average months develop nowadays), with a cool and exceptionally wet July sandwiched in between. Summers tend to either be frontloaded, backloaded, or warm-hearted. Not "cool-hearted" with heat bookending it at either side.

Originally Posted by: Bolty 



I wonder if this will become known as the 'sh*t sandwich' summer? Warm both top and bottom but utter crap in between 🙂
Col
Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
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ozone_aurora
Sunday, August 13, 2023 9:40:06 AM

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

Originally Posted by: Col 


I think 2009 was that sort of summer, at least for E Anglia.
richardabdn
Wednesday, August 16, 2023 12:18:58 PM
First day with pressure above 1020mb since 23rd June and has that lead to an improvement in the weather? No it most certainly has not. Quite the opposite in fact 🤬

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 🙄
Aberdeen: The only place that misses out on everything


2023 - The Year that's Constantly Worse than a Bad November
2024 - 2023 without the Good Bits
Crepuscular Ray
Wednesday, August 16, 2023 12:44:16 PM
Not too bad a summer here in Edinburgh really. A very warm, sunny and dry June. July's temperature was about normal here but wetter and duller.
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.
Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill
LeedsLad123
Wednesday, August 16, 2023 7:23:08 PM
Since the 8th it’s been quite nice really with temps between 21 and 28C. Forecast looks good too (except Friday).

Looks like August will be our warmest month this year. 
Whitkirk, Leeds - 85m ASL.
Bolty
Friday, August 18, 2023 5:41:13 PM
That early autumn feeling is starting to creep in now. It usually tends to happen around the middle of August, as the decreasing daylength and lowering angle of the Sun becomes much more noticeable. I think last August was the only time I've never really felt it until September, which was most likely to do with how hot it was.
Scott
Blackrod, Lancashire (4 miles south of Chorley) at 156m asl.
My weather station 
Retron
Friday, August 18, 2023 5:50:30 PM

That early autumn feeling is starting to creep in now. It usually tends to happen around the middle of August, as the decreasing daylength and lowering angle of the Sun becomes much more noticeable. I think last August was the only time I've never really felt it until September, which was most likely to do with how hot it was.

Originally Posted by: Bolty 


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

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

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Leysdown, north Kent
roadrunnerajn
Friday, August 18, 2023 7:50:03 PM
Definitely not summer… almost dark a layered heavy scudding cloud base. A whistling gale whining around the eaves with the letterbox banging on some bigger gusts…
Storm Betty is fairly strong here at the moment. 
I feel sorry for the people on holiday at the moment.
Germoe, part of the breakaway Celtic Republic.
Jiries
Friday, August 18, 2023 8:44:29 PM

Definitely not summer… almost dark a layered heavy scudding cloud base. A whistling gale whining around the eaves with the letterbox banging on some bigger gusts…
Storm Betty is fairly strong here at the moment. 
I feel sorry for the people on holiday at the moment.

Originally Posted by: roadrunnerajn 



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.
richardabdn
Saturday, August 19, 2023 8:48:40 AM
Absolutely diabolical spell of weather. The worst of the summer. No sun during Vitamin D hours since Monday and it just gets worse and worse with each rank day 🤮

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 🤢🤢🤢
Aberdeen: The only place that misses out on everything


2023 - The Year that's Constantly Worse than a Bad November
2024 - 2023 without the Good Bits
Jiries
Saturday, August 19, 2023 10:09:20 AM
Why we getting stupid named storms which never match the USA storms like the current Hilary that will give high rainfall, record low cool maxes temps, strong winds and stormy.   Yesterday was nothing but very lame and standard Low that brought light rain and clouds and nothing else.  They need to stop naming storms in here just to make wow and match with USA storms.

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.
Tim A
Monday, August 21, 2023 6:20:23 AM
Really thought we might get some nice mellow settled weather to end August and start September but not looking good. 

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. 
Tim
NW Leeds
187m asl

 My PWS 
richardabdn
Monday, August 21, 2023 11:58:29 AM
Yet another day of stinking grey, depressing, ugly and unphotogenic dirge. August has turned into another horror show over the past week with day after day of horrible grey cloud constantly ruining what should be the best part of the day 🤬

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 😴
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2023 - The Year that's Constantly Worse than a Bad November
2024 - 2023 without the Good Bits
Saint Snow
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 8:32:34 AM
In a bit of a gloat, here in SW Brittany, we've really dropped on. Been beautiful since we arrived in France on Friday morning. Paris was actually too hot (30c) but since getting here, we've had almost permanent cloudless (literally cloudless) skies and temps of at least 25c. Barely been out of the villa's pool. Forecast to get to 27c today and 30c tomorrow. It's bizarre the difference a few hundred miles can make. 

Martin
Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)
A TWO addict since 14/12/01
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Retron
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 8:36:47 AM

In a bit of a gloat, here in SW Brittany, we've really dropped on. Been beautiful since we arrived in France on Friday morning. Paris was actually too hot (30c) but since getting here, we've had almost permanent cloudless (literally cloudless) skies and temps of at least 25c. Barely been out of the villa's pool. Forecast to get to 27c today and 30c tomorrow. It's bizarre the difference a few hundred miles can make. 

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 


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.

 
Leysdown, north Kent
Jiries
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 8:50:39 AM

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.

 

Originally Posted by: Retron 



Any computer does not like the heat and can freeze or over heating it.   
Tim A
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 4:09:17 PM

In a bit of a gloat, here in SW Brittany, we've really dropped on. Been beautiful since we arrived in France on Friday morning. Paris was actually too hot (30c) but since getting here, we've had almost permanent cloudless (literally cloudless) skies and temps of at least 25c. Barely been out of the villa's pool. Forecast to get to 27c today and 30c tomorrow. It's bizarre the difference a few hundred miles can make. 

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 



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! 
Tim
NW Leeds
187m asl

 My PWS 
Saint Snow
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 5:44:24 PM

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! 

Originally Posted by: Tim A 



​​​​​​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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Martin
Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)
A TWO addict since 14/12/01
"How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics."
Aneurin Bevan
Retron
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 5:54:41 PM
Maxed out at 26.6 here in the Costa del Kent today, a rounded 27. There's a reason people flock to the coast around here each summer!

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!
Leysdown, north Kent
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