Sunny76

I have a co worker who complained it was too hot last week, during our mini hot snap of 25-27c. I told him to do one lol.

Can we stop wheeling out that old chestnut. Yes, it was a sunny warm June, but it wasn’t for large areas of eastern England, and didn’t really get going until the 8th. Yes, it was a lovely month, but the poor weather of 6/7 weeks that followed really brought down the summer in my opinion. June feels like a distant memory, after all the grey cloudy muck of July and first half of August. Recent week or two has been a bit better with warm sunny days, but it’s still not enough to save what has been a dreadful period of high summer weather.

The change came in late 1987. Months from December 87 and beyond, recorded more milder than average months compared to before the October storm of 87. Early 87 still recorded below average temps, and between 77 or so, many months were below average up until 1987.

It wasn’t that long ago. My old family flat was still like that into the early 2000s.

Think there were a couple of warm sunny days before 18th August, but yeah you’re right. It’s basically been a handful of warm to hot sunny days in August, and not much else. It was bad wasn’t it. Even though some on here love to point out it was the 24th warmest on record. That only means to be, that at least 10-15 summers were much better than this sorry excuse of a summer for sunshine and warm temps.

Lol, I don’t remember that, but I remember Jackie killing himself by accident with a shotgun in 1989

This summer wasn’t warm. It was below par for sunshine, and wetter than normal.

It’s the chavvy part of Devon I think. Teignmouth looked nicer, but we didn’t have time to explore that area. Maybe next time .

This was the thunderstorm from Saturday afternoon. IMG_5047.mov IMG_5047.mov IMG_5047.mov IMG_5047.mov IMG_5047.mov IMG_5048.mov IMG_5047.mov IMG_5048.mov IMG_5049.mov IMG_5051.mov IMG_5054.mov IMG_5056.mov IMG_5057.mov IMG_5060.mov IMG_5061.mov Dawlish was lovely by the way. Not too far from your neck of the woods. Not a fan of Torquay to be honest.

No other way to slice a turd pie. Summer 23 was poor. The June was lovely, but July failed miserably, and early August was fairly bleak. August has seen an improvement, but it’s not enough to tip the balance back to acceptable for me, regardless of what the stats say.

The restrictions were necessary at the time, given the fact we knew nothing about the severity of the virus. More people would have become sick, if more of us were going to work in the office. Good looking storm. Love it

It might not have been a cold summer, but it certainly wasn’t a warm one either.

I don’t agree with that. Plenty of people moan about the lack of cold even when it is cold. Unless it’s -1c with snow, the coldies will complain regardless.

Most of our winters have always been mild. It’s a default set up with the Atlantic to the west, and being surrounded by the North Sea and English Channel. We probably will see some cold weather at some point. A good chunk of you were saying how this summer has been acceptable and ‘a proper English summer’. I prefer a cold crisp season, but if it ends up mild, I would like it to be dry.

A cold summer is a bad thing after a chilly winter and spring.

I have faith we will see another spell of 26-28c, for a few days sometime in the middle of September. And maybe a few days in the low 20s with sunshine in early October, before we take a tumble into proper autumn.

The last week of August is where it really does start to close in. Not just the daylight, but also this is usually where the daytime maxes start to gradually drop. Even in the warmest summers, temps usually start to take a tumble around the last week of the month.

Yeah and 79-80 was a dry mild one.

I don’t know why a mild winter is always a bad thing. A dry mild one would be ok, if we can’t have a cold crisp or snowy one. For me it’s the rain that really makes things depressing for long periods of time.

Have fun mate. September and even early October is still summer in the Med regions, despite the nights gradually cooling off in the second half of September. Sometimes a good time to catch an overnight storm as well

Yeah the east was chilly in late August 2020, while we stayed in Reading. August bank holiday in 2021 was similar. 2022 bucked the trend and was nice and warm, although it was becoming cooler by this stage. I remember a few thunderstorms overnight during this time last year.

Thankfully I’m heading to Greece next weekend. Hopefully will be enjoying some high 20s at least and some very warm nights.

Yeah, Summer 23 was definitely a bad one. For anyone who wanted normal sunny weather with nice warm evenings, well, they were in very short supply.

Both ninos lead to different winters. 97 was mild and 09 was cold. The stats argument again lol. It means nothing, unless you have some nice warm sunny weather. A mild month with constant dull weather is going to be remembered as poor. He won’t listen to you Absence lol.

Given the choice, I’ll take a December 2010, but the advantage of a 2015 is needed to use to heating slightly less often.