Is this the worst summer EVER?

[Twente2]

All it ever seems to do is just rain, if it aint raining its cloudy, with the exception of maybe 1 hot day a week, if we're lucky!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Spring was peachy. Summers tend to be shite these days.

 

[Simster]

Spring was peachy. Summers tend to be shite these days.

Correct. Nothing wrong with April and May. In fact, my garden was brown until June, which was shite. July was OK until the last two weeks (I got burnt while laying my patio all weekend about 3 weeks ago), but I'm holding out hope for late August and September.

 

[Knightsworld]

Was just having the same discussion in our office. April and May were excellent, since then, SHITE.

 

[albion534]

2 years in a row now running that marathon in that bloody heat

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

We seem to get the best weather of the year for a week or two in April

 

[Twente2]

England is so depressing

 

[Hillian1]

It happens almost every year, it's just we tend to think of summer as long hot days.

It has a name of The European Monsoon, according to Carol on the Weather programme last night.

 

[Gwylan]

Correct. Nothing wrong with April and May. In fact, my garden was brown until June, which was shite.

Seventh hottest June since records began
Global temperatures were seventh warmest on record for June

 

[blue2]

just look how green the amex grass is and how dry most of us will be

 

[Manx Shearwater]

I've just had a patio built in the garden, so I'm afraid its not going to get any better.



Sorry.

 

[public school boy]

Quite a good summer really. People complained whilst it was hot and dry. The farmers needed the rain so do our gardens and wild life. If you want dry summers go and live in Somalia. Should be a dry warm September when the Schools have gone back then I can go down to Cornwall and enjoy empty beaches and plenty of room to surf.

 

[Simster]

Seventh hottest June since records began
Global temperatures were seventh warmest on record for June

But who wants to spend time outside in the warm if it's pissing down with rain?

And that is an article on GLOBAL temps in June, not the UK!

 

[Peteinblack]

Every summer sems to have been like this since 2006. Decent April and May, followed by a June, July and August which are more like October.
For some reason, the high altitude jet stream, which guides rain-bearing depressions across the Atlantic, used to move towards Iceland over the summer, so most of England came under the influence of hotter weather on the continent, but for the last 4-5 years, the jet stream seems to have got stuck right over Britain, and hasn't budged. These wet summers, year after year, are seriously annoying me; I expect to be stuck indoors at the weekend in winter, but not during June, July and August.

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[Peteinblack]

Quite a good summer really

 

[smudge]

It is the worst I can remember & I don't give a shit what some armchair weather expert says. I judge summer days on blue skies & sunshine. It has been & continues to be utter shit; so f*cking depressing.

 

[withdeanwombat]

Summer maximum of rainfall and all that. O to be in England now that April's there,wot.

 

[Simster]

It is the worst I can remember & I don't give a shit what some armchair weather expert says. I judge summer days on blue skies & sunshine. It has been & continues to be utter shit; so f*cking depressing.

It was clear and sunny without being boiling most of last week wasn't it? The week and weekend before that was gash, as was the weekend just gone. I do think a lot of people's perceptions of the weather come down to the what the weather was like at the weekend. Two successive crap weekends while stuck in the office in the week days in between mean that one might conclude that the weather was gash for all 16 days when it often isn't the case.

 

[nawtygully]

i agree it is awful i do lots of fishing here in the midlands and we have not seen a sunset since april its always cloudy and cold week in and week out cancelled a night fishing session on the river nene last weekend monsoon rain and soooo cold gales not good

 

[Yoda]

The latest forecast model are moving for a settled and possible warm spell moving in from next week.