If we go by which 3 month block of days is the warmest on average I'd say summer is 10th June - 10th September. Halfway house between metrological and astronomical summer.
Christ that 18z couldn't get any better, 2nd year in a row I miss an epic August heatwave. Might catch the first couple of days before flying on Saturday.
ECM keeps the 1015hpa line in England, central and Southern England should at least see sunny spells and the occasional shower with average temps after Friday. Not perfect but beggars can't be choosers after July.
House temperature of 18.3C, not seen that since May. Warmest week of the year on average supposedly.
Edit: thanks for moving to right place, I got the threads mixed up.
To be fair it's showing mid twenties for most with high twenties in the Southeast, but I get the one extreme to another is annoying. I would also gladly have weeks of mid twenties.
High may be swiftly replaced on the ECMWF but so is the low after it. Some good days some not so good with a more traditional mobile NW/SE split, infinitely better than July.
I'm not too fussed about charts like that, on a local scale something like is possible
When we had a similar set up in June it was a lot of fun. Warm and sunny during the day then thunderstorms in late afternoon.
A lot of mess to get out of the way between day 3-7, where unfortunately it looks like another direct hit from a low on Saturday, but just after this time next week we have this: