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Odd - I thought that's what seasons were all about. After all, if we're going to define seasons based on daylight, summer begins sometime in April and ends sometime in August. Having 3 calendar months for every season makes sense for statistical purposes, but is clearly no use when it comes to the type of weather we experience - that much is obvious - especially when the first part of September averages 20-22C for most of England as an average high, higher than the first part of June.

The sensible approach is to do whatever you want. I turn the heating on when I feel cold - others choose to suffer by wearing unnecessary layers indoors. Their choice, and mine.

Today should be a cloudless day in Leeds - unless there was cloud before I woke up.

You guys take everything so seriously! I don't think even TWO take their White Christmas forecasts with any degree of seriousness!

Average high: 21.1C Average low: 12.6C Rainfall: 91.8mm Rain days >1mm: 8 Very average temperatures, well above normal rainfall. Average number of days with rain in August is around 9, so despite the very high rainfall total, it didn't feel that wet. July had more rain days with less rain. Over hall fell on the 22nd and 23rd alone. It proved to be the best month of summer - but was definitely not the sunniest in 2015, as that accolade still belongs to bloomin' April! Here are the anomaly maps.. Nice big area of anomalous rainfall for my area of Yorkshire thanks to the thunderstorms.

We never seem to do well with these stupid spotty popcorn storms - but seem to do well when storms are organised and thus affect a larger area. More plumes please.

August 2005 was a nice month. In fact, summer 2005 in general was quite nice. June was probably the stand-out month relative to average.

Disagree. The worst aspect of going to school in December for me was that it was often pitch black when I got up and quite frankly I have no motivation to get out of bed when its dark and wet. Any later sunrises would have been a nightmare and I'm sure most people would agree hence the lack of interest in changing anything.

Only August will end up slightly warmer than average - the other two came in below average but not significantly.

Ugh, no stormy weather please. A nice area of high pressure leading to those familiar frosty autumn nights and leading to beautiful sunny days would be just great. A very cold winter would be nice, but if we can't get cold, just give us a 1998 repeat and please keep Atlantic storms at a minimum.

I think any turning at this time of year is mostly disease related.

The flowers are dying back now, but the trees won't show signs of change until late September in this part of the world. Often later than that.

I think our times are fine as they are personally.

Much better up north this August compared to points further south - will be interesting to see the Met Office anomaly maps. Currently slightly warmer than average here. Sunshine should finish closer to average - certainly been rather sunny here this week. Every day has managed to exceed 20C too. It's one of those strange occurrences when Leeds is warmer than London.

September daylight is good - the sun is still up when most of us finish work and will usually be up or getting bright when we get ready for work. It's November when things get really depressing I think - when you wake up and it's pitch black, and you clock off and the sun has been down for 2 hours already. The short daylight doesn't typically bother me at all, and when it's snowy, actually adds to the ambiance, but today I felt momentary dread. I thought to myself 'The sun will set at 3:45pm in December.. how on earth do we cope with that?', even though it's never crossed my mind before because it's normal to me. That's why I prefer starting early in the morning (like 6am) and finishing in the early afternoon (around 2) - at least then you have more of the day to enjoy and in winter will get to enjoy some day light.

July had 5 thunder days here, August 2 - buy we had 3 storms on the same day Saturday and another on Sunday so it kind of balances out. June was totally thunderless.

That's an unusual perspective. Even most winter haters I know would rather get the cold out of the way in the appropriate season and save summer for the heat.

There's been a north-south divide this August, but in reverse.. August 2015 average high anomaly for selected stations vs 1981-2010 average (to the 25th).. Leconfield (nr Hull) +0.8C Edinburgh Gogarbank +0.7C Manchester Airport +0.7C Linton on Ouse (nr York) +0.7C Carlisle +0.6C Coleshill (nr B'ham) +0.5C Lerwick +0.5C Glasgow Bishopton 0.0C Shoreham Airport (nr Brighton) -0.1C Heathrow Airport -0.3C Brize Norton (nr Oxford) -0.4C Filton (nr Bristol) -0.4C Bournemouth Airport -1.0C

2009, 2012 and 2013 immediately spring to mind - all average or above average. It would be nice if people actually cited references for their claims instead of just posting whatever tickles their fancy.. lol.

Since 2007, we reached 25c in August in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and now 2015. Seems to me like Shawbury has crap summers for some reason. We reached 30C only once in 2013 though - but by the same token 30C has only been reached in July twice (2013 and 2015) and twice in June (2011 and 2015). It's unusual because August usually delivers the hottest weather of the year - it certainly did in the 90s - mid 00s.

The first week of June was very cold, but the rest of the month was average - and the final 10 days were above average. There was no cold NW wind blowing for most of the month - where on earth did you get that?! Me thinks you suffer from a common condition that a lot of people are affected by - selective memory. July was 0.5C below average. That is statistically insignificant. I reiterate, an unremarkable summer. Certainly not bad.

June - pleasant. Sunnier and drier than average, slightly cooler than average but only due to the string of cold nights early on. Mean maximum came in above average. No storms at all - not even a crack of thunder. July - kind of disappointing really. Not terrible - within 0.5C of average - but the final week was a real stinker - and it wasn't very sunny. Some storms though. August - turning out to be the best of 2015, with consistently warm weather, albeit nothing hot. Some storms. It's been wet, with 80mm, but on 6 days, so it actually hasn't felt that wet, and more than half fell on Saturday and Sunday alone thanks to thunderstorms (which I don't mind at all). So overall, nothing terrible. Nothing great. Pretty unremarkable - but not in a bad way. 2015 will simply go down in history.. well, actually, it won't.. nobody will remember it.

August is running above average here - and it seems that we are the sunniest part of the country this month - so my perspective is totally different. Plus, we have avoided the rain entirely - reached 20C yesterday and 19C today so once again beating BBC forecasts - and it seems that 20C should be reached every day this week. Actually looks reasonably sunny too - and dry. I'm seeing people complaining about how bad the weather is and I'm just left here thinking.. what? However, from 1 September onwards I see highs of 16C, so perhaps autumn will arrive exactly on cue.

Better day than expected - mostly cloudy but some afternoon sunshine pushed temps above 20C and it's been dry. Similar all week I suspect.

Hopefully the last ever! 14.4C for me.