Nice to see that warm, dry and sunny weather does still exist. It's been a very good late summer's week so far.

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Back to the usual dross today: no wind to speak of, 27C, humid and absolutely boiling upstairs (30C, even with the windows open). It's going to suck trying to sleep tonight... 🥵

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Went out in to the garden after work and fell asleep in lovely warm sunshine and blue skies only to wake up back in the hell of repulsive grey overcast. The sky completely filled with filth again in less than half an hour 🤬🤬🤬

It's just beyond a joke. There is no longer the familiar days of summer when the sun went in and out of cumulus all day. Now any cloud appears and that's it. The sky fills with an ugly grey mess and no more sun. The same as winter 🙄

Also it looks as though Tuesday will end up the sunniest day of the week despite being the coolest. Again this is typical only of winter. I cannot recall this happening in any other season but now it's becoming the norm as anything warm is poisoned by ridiculous amounts of cloud 🤢

Furthermore, the North Highlands and Orkney have had the best weather in Scotland today. Always used to be the south and east that got that but that's a rarity if that happens these days 😒

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It has been a lovely warm and largely sunny day here and yes it clouded over for an hour or so but the skies are clearing again and it’s still pleasantly warm. Off to the garden for a drink. 😎Tomorrow is also forecast to be warmer than today. It’s been a long wait but today’s weather has been very welcome.

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Looking ahead, it looks like we're going back into another dry spell again. There's really not much rain showing in the forecast around here (apart from a few shower symbols) in the week ahead, and it feels very strange after the total deluge we had in July.

These rapid flips between very wet and bone dry are very strange and interesting. They've been a real feature of this decade so far.

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Plenty of 28s today spread around the country.  First 28c since 8th July. Such a poor heart of summer.
 

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Looking ahead, it looks like we're going back into another dry spell again. There's really not much rain showing in the forecast around here (apart from a few shower symbols) in the week ahead, and it feels very strange after the total deluge we had in July.

These rapid flips between very wet and bone dry are very strange and interesting. They've been a real feature of this decade so far.

The forecast is decent enough - not a single day below 20C which is what I like to see in August. 

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The forecast is decent enough - not a single day below 20C which is what I like to see in August. 

Indeed. A decent August should at least cement this as a half decent summer (2/3 good months is fine). Hopefully a nice September too! 😎

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We had a cloudy day yesterday with only the odd glimmer of sun, disappointing for the Festival Tourists. It stayed dry until we were rained on coming home from a show. We reached 23 C despite the cloud but not the day that was forecast ☹️

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Plenty of 28s today spread around the country.  First 28c since 8th July. Such a poor heart of summer.
 

Yes it was very poor summer and now August trying to recover it some back of our summer  Best thing now is stay on the warm side to October for heating costs stay off, last year put on in end of Sept was it wasn't a warm month  Today was pleasant but warm winds, 23C and nice 25.5 indoors with all window vents opened.

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.

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.

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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.

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.
 

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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...

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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!

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Despite the 'fresher' conditions, it remains humid with dew points remaining in the mid teens. No relent at all.

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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.

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

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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.

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 🙄

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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.

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