My view is closer the LeedsLad's than yours, oddly enough. We've probably had more rain (and days where it's rained) that in Leeds, but no day after relentless day, as it seemed to be in that 2007-2012 period. Also, looking at Lanky's map of the 'Summer Index' (how was that produced? It's great!), we're hitting about average, and that patch of pink extending through Cheshire is not far from MBY. And I'd imagine that since the end of the 'June Monsoon', we'd be fully in the pink, as it were (oo-er, missus!)
I've not got a problem with this summer, tbh. Well, if we disregard most of June I've not
They are jpg just Screen Shots Excel Spreadsheets displayed at 12% zoom with Excel conditional formatting to show the different value ranges and then a jpg editor to add in a key of colours used based on the ranges. The UK outline comes out automatically as the source data contains dummy (9999) data for non land areas
The disaggregated data is monthly totals (1961-2016) of Max Temp, Sun Hrs and Rain Days (1mm) and is all on the UKCP09 (now CEDA) databases by 5km grid squares hence the fine granularity. They even have some of this in the form of daily data since 1961 but that would have been too much for my laptop !
Just need a ftp client to download loads of txt files and Excel 2016 Data Query to load up the spreadsheets in bulk from the txt files plus Kevin's formula and a fair bit of time to reformat everything
The chart I found the most interesting was not the average Summer Index values by grid square shown earlier but the trend change in Summer Index between 1961 and 2016. This shows that the difference between the SE and NW is getting bigger and bigger. Most places except in Scotland and the SW / Wales have had increases in the SI (mainly due to rising temperatures) but the SE is showing the biggest increase
The chart below shoes the trend
The area around Sheerness (N Kent) and Rayleigh (Essex) shows an increase in SI of 45 on trend 1961-2016 whilst the area around Barnstable (N Devon) shows -17. These are the max min values
I have no idea why these areas should be the extremes, however (??)