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Daily Climate Composites: NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory PSL.NOAA.GOV US Department of Commerce, NOAA, Physical Sciences Laboratory Monthly/Seasonal Composites: NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory PSL.NOAA.GOV US Department of Commerce, NOAA, Physical Sciences Laboratory First one is daily, second is monthly. Use the daily one for months that aren't over yet.

Knowing Ireland that would probably be drier and sunnier so I'd take that over this shitshow.

Day was better than I expected but back to square one the past hour or so!

Considering I had more than 400% of my weekly July average rainfall with less than 50% of sunshine and below average temps, that's not OK! Terrible terrible week.

It was the second wettest August this century nationally for the UK with only 2004 wetter. Ex-hurricane Bertha hit England on the 10th and gave a deluge. It was horrendous and was especially a shock after the lovely June and wonderful July. The only colder than average month in 2014 just had to be August, it had to be out of all months.

"Drier" and "August 2014" in the same sentence it was an awful month.

CET minimum is 0.6C above 61-90 whilst CET maximum is bang on the 61-90 average. UK national mean max is ~0.27C above 61-90 whilst min is ~1.00C above 61-90. Mean max is ~0.72C below the modern warmer 91-20.

Don't know why I never posted here this season but these were from the morning of the 4th July at Howth in Dublin. This was the only pretty good display visible here this season with the rest of them being covered by boring cloud.

Synoptically, that's also the case..

Where is this data from? The peak for 1965-66 I can see is +2.0 which is solidly strong and it was an easterly QBO.

That is pretty much my ideal albeit with a 2010 end to November

I found the first week ok, pretty average if a little on the wet side. However, that weekend just gone was an abomination and one of the worst summer weekends I've had up there with the Diamond Jubilee weekend in June 2012 being the worst. Hope I won't see one as bad for a LONG time.

Don't think that's running average, think that's referring to whole monthly average and given we're "only" to 16th July on the data, 90% for the UK is wetter than average as of this point in the month. England & Wales well above where it should be for this point in July.

Here's the July maxima for that run of poor Julys/summers. 2007 24.7C at London Weather Centre on the 31st (24.6C at Llysdinham same day with LWC records being disregarded) 2008 30.2C at Cambridge on the 28th 2009 32.0C at Hampton on the 1st 2010 31.7C at Gravesend on the 9th 2011 27.4C at Hartpury College on the 25th 2012 30.7C at St James' Park on the 25th

There has been 30C - just abouts - 30.2C at Chertsey on the 7th. And the last time was 2011.

The lack of sunshine and blue skies affect mine greatly too. A warm day is of no use to me without that beautiful blue sky to uplift my mood. Going from the sunniest spring on record to my cloudiest summer on record in 2020 (almost a 300 hour decrease on the spring) still hits me hard to this day at the thoughts of it.

The following years had June with the highest CET mean max since 1970. (second warmest in brackets) 1993 19.6C (July/August 19.1C) 1992 20.9C (July 20.2C) 1970 21.7C (August 20.4C) July had a higher mean max in 2010 with 21.4C vs 20.3C.

Both July 2020 and July 2021 here had less than 35 hours of sun up to the 13th in Dublin. July 2023 is significantly ahead of both with 63.3 hrs albeit that's still hardly great, just not as bad and 2021 got a very sunny spell soon after with a heatwave so got a huge boost and became the sunniest since 2013 here. 2023 will not be the same. A good place to view sunshine (aside from SunSean's tables) is Roostweather: Starlings Roost Weather STARLINGSROOST.DDNS.NET Here's the latest to 14th.

In terms of UK stats (some people have mentioned the CET). 1976 in brackets Mean temp: 16.30C (15.70C) Mean max: 21.40C (21.01C) Mean min: 11.33C (10.44C) Sunshine: 635.4 hrs (672.1 hrs) So yes it would smash in terms of temperature but sunshine no. July 2022 was actually quite cloudy in the north and brought down the UK average (179.5 hrs compared to 223.8 hrs in 1976). August 1976 was also decently sunnier than 2022 but both were still very sunny.

30th failed with 29.7C. 31st got to 37.8C.

2011. Was meant to be 2020 if it weren't for that last day..

Not just simply misremembered, you also stated as if the temperature values on one or two days make a month the hottest on record when it's the mean temperature that does that. For example, July 2022 may have the absolute highest maximum temperature on record but it is not the UK's warmest/hottest July on record. That is 2006.

Please tell me you’re joking..

Another one... the 7-day CET mean max for 9th-15th June 2023 was 26.6C. Only 3 other June weeks since 1878 have been as warm or warmer than this - late June 1878, late May/early June 1947 (phenomenal spell) and of course the exceptional late June 1976. (Late June/early July 2018 also achieved this technically speaking) Not that unusual to have a 26.6C in July but in June, very remarkable and the first half too. Only the 1947 spell has achieved that in the CET max record since 1878.

CET has had 4 consecutive days with a mean max of 27C or more from 10th-13th June 2023. You have to go back to June 1976 for the last time this occurred in the month of June for both consecutive days and total days overall. Very very impressive and it was 2 weeks earlier than 1976.