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Met Office confirm July has been cooler than average. Whatever will the cold rainfest loving fans use to gaslight us with now?

110 hours.... 7 clear days out of 31 would have exceeded that. Horrific.

I'm not going to get my hopes up or say things will improve but it does seem the low that hits us on Wednesday and then gives us the Northerly for the rest of the week is the last of the Atlantic barrage. After that a lot is up in the air and there's uncertainty about what then takes over. Maybe a chance of an improvement, maybe lows win again, but at least we have something of a raffle instead, just need some luck.

I don't think it's an expectation it's just what would be required to be compensated for this shocking July. As much as weeks of heatwave conditions isn't normal, let's be clear this July is far from normal. As posted with the graphic last night, for sunlight and rainfall combined, for anyone born after 1988 this is the worst July they have ever lived through. It's as abnormal as a 1975 summer. And also like I said because of warm nights it's average according to the outdated 61-90 metric. In reality compared to the more relevant last 30 years we've lived through, 91-20, it's significantly below average temperature wise too.

Here we have it, the worst July in my lifetime. But because the nights are often cloudy and therefore kept mild, the CET is equal to the long outdated 61-90 average, so we can't complain.

Met Office say very little about ENSO effects on UK weather but the one thing they feel confident enough to say is the increased likelihood of cold winters during El Nino years. What are El Niño and La Niña? WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK El Niño and La Niña are terms which describe the biggest fluctuation in the Earth's climate system and can have consequences across the globe.

CET of 20C for May and all 3 summer months next year would just about make up for the absolute trash we have had to put up with since March.

1016hpa over the UK should at least give us something. The last month apart from the very rare transient ridge like today, we have been on the wrong side of the boundary between low and high pressure or even well within a low. It's painfully slow, but at least the signs are there that we will be on the right side, especially in the Southeast. For my area that means 22-24C sunny spells and the odd shower. Not great in isolation but compared to 15-20C and either relentless showers or frontal rain then the improvement is significant.

At least the grass has never looked healthier.

Surprisingly warm here, don't think it was meant to hit 22C today. Regular showers of course but I've long accepted rain every day as the new normal.

Maybe a 1 or 2 hour break befors the next front? How is it possible to have this small a gap between two fronts?

Well for many this week wasn't good though. Yes relative to this clown show of a month, this week was OK, but any other year a week of temperatures 2-4C below average, which means high teens in the middle of July here, and rain every day, would be awful. Less bad than awful is still bad.

Tough to take both Spring and Summer being a disgrace. Even in the worst years like 2012 it's only one of the seasons being awful. Some got a good May but anywhere away from the west typically got a mix of cloud days and the occasional sunny day with average temperatures. The 2 weeks in June have been the only actual good warm spell since last August. Counting down the days until I get out of this drizzly island. Possibly the worst year weatherwise in my lifetime.

2 and 3 at least break the wave 5 pattern. Those are snapshots but would imagine we would at least have more changeable weather (e.g. occasional weak ridges) rather than the fixed endless low pressure influence we have now.

Below average and it rained at some point, despite that probably the 3rd best day of this July so far.

Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are all above the EU average (and the UK) for suicide rates. Maybe better to trust the objective data than subjective happiness surveys. Lowest rates are found in the Mediterranean and the UK doing surprisingly well.

3 weeks for me, longer than than normal but was far cheaper than 2 weeks or less, with current weather very happy about that.

House temp is now below 20C. If I didn't have my trip to Cyprus to look forward to I'd be depressed.

Managed 15 minutes of very overdue gardening before the rain started.

I hear you, not had a chance to do anything outdoors for a while now. How anyone can enjoy this I'll never know.

Maximum temp of 16C mild November day.

One positive is at least the "all that heat is there in Spain for us to tap into" saying is being disproved. If anything a set up that produces extreme heat in Spain will usually be very poor for the UK. Last year was a rare set up with a very finely placed low to elongate the heat pattern throughout summer.

Iceland, UK, Ireland, Norway and Northern coasts of the mainland with eastern extent up to Denmark. I'm probably wrong but if I was in Northern Germany or France but with at least some distance away from the coast I would be fuming if I had similar weather to the UK.

Fantastic thunderstorm this visibility down to 100m and horizontal torrential rain

Wasn't the East meant to have another sunny day today?