Froze were the Days

Not over the period approx late October to early March we're not...but yes Spring to early Autumn more sun.

Get use to it!...one down side of global warming come Autumn/Winter - warmer seas equates to more cloud, be nice to experience a chilly Autumn for once with some mists/fog and sunnier crisper days but I'm dreaming.

It's July all over again...won't be long until the heat is back.

Atlantic ramping up on the ECM 12z but once more no lows tracking anywhere near the continent...just swinging northwards, half the problem. Keeping all that heat in place.

It won't last long here in the south east, expecting a brief spell of cooler westerlies next week before the dreaded Euro heat dome takes over again...just shy of 24c here today.

Wake me up when Autumn finally turns up!...certainly temperature wise, looks like it will turn more unsettled next week and breezy.

I'll be waiting until December...

Spot on but it's the BBC usually in on the act!... and third time this summer they've mentioned thunderstorms to end heatwave on their news page...just doesn't happen and if it does usually very localised, just rain out there, why am I not at all surprised?

God! looked at the current temp anomaly and just laughed (or I'd cry)...I wonder what impact this will have on the months ahead?

26c today and still fairly muggy...so where are these thunderstorms?

Horribly humid out there...noticed the headlines are saying 'growing risk of thunderstorms' - yawn! how many times have I heard this during the late Spring and Summer and not a jot! just some rain or drizzle then fresher.

26.2C here on the Riviera and very little wind...feels quite oppressive, somebody will reach 30c+ today no doubt.

Fortunately I haven't experienced one 30c temp day this summer...even June in my location didn't provide any unusually hot days just consistency of warmth at night and day.

If you're going to grade our summers on storms a vast amount of them will be bad now days...too much high pressure dominating towards the south when a front/cooler conditions come through - hence why you see more of the way of storms towards the north (when certain conditions arise). But heat wise, yes fairly poor...still waiting to break the 30c barrier this summer which seems to have occurred at least once for the last number of summers.

Well as night follows day BBC weather website ups the temps...now 27c for Wednesday on the Riviera, why do they consistently underplay maxes until a couple or so days beforehand?

Wonderful BBC website is going for maxes of 23/24c next week with a light easterly...even though I live on the Riviera fully expecting those figures to be upped in the next day or so...a habit that poor website usually does before expectant very warm/hot spells.

September 2016 in the south east was better than August...remember it well. Really would like to see a chilly October and November thereafter for once!

I'll stand by for the usual cloud, humidity and drizzle/light rain...usually happens at least 8 times out of 10.

24c and largely wall to wall sun here on the Essex Riviera bar some high cirrus cloud...don't think the weather will go too downhill come the Weekend in the south east and by the looks later next week some heat returning.

You're obviously not that old then...saying that it is one of the worst spells of summer weather I'd say in the last decade or so. I remember July 1988 when we had rain falling on 30 of the 31 days! Certainly worse than the July just gone in this neck of the woods!

Yes with regards to anything BBC weather if on their website or app the words 'ashtray and motorbike' come together...just yesterday BBC weather was showing that it would be raining now.

Complete bust as it seems to be 8 times out of 10 (or it seems) when Stormy weather is predicted in my back yard - just the usual dank light rain rubbish!

hmmm...according to the beeb just slow to clear in the morning in the far east, I wouldn't have thought that was the issue?

Just throwing this out there, but good ol' BBC lunchtime forecast has temps of 19c tomorrow in the south east (I guess maxes) with the Atlantic Maritime air encroaching eastwards BUT after a brief warm up again the low pressure that develops and moves somewhat southwards to our north brings a further plunge of Pm air south eastwards and the BBC was showing 24c for London for the weekend!?! surely that won't be right? How can Thursday and Saturday/Sunday be that different, if anything as the weekend progresses should be colder than tomorrow (certainly to the north)...could this yet again be another case of a MeteoGroup chicken-up? standing by with my max thermometer.

Watching latest model runs and of recent summers - amazing you very rarely see low pressures move eastwards over land i.e. over Scandinavia etc. hence the reason we hardly experience northerlies or even to a degree north westerlies!