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  • Location: Ayr
  • Location: Ayr

What a summer it has been! Any unsettled weather has been brief. Many areas round here are suffering from having hardly any rain. Sunshine amounts well above average and temperatures have seemed warm for months now. What a contrast from recent summers aye Posted Image

 

July was glorious here, sunshine for days on end, most days above 20C (yes, in the West of Scotland this is heatwave territory!) and the ground had that parched look for weeks, changed towards the end of July though as conditions broke down. August very dull and disappointing though, a poor summer month for the last decade now. June was mixed with a nice first 10 days then duller and wetter. At least at no point you could ever say it was a washout :)

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  • Location: Berlin, Germany
  • Weather Preferences: Ample sunshine; Hot weather; Mixed winters with cold and mild spells
  • Location: Berlin, Germany

Ahh back to proper summer feeling day today. Temps 21.5c by 11am, mostly clear skies and light winds. Shame it picked a Tuesday to do it but beggers can't be choosers! Do hope BBC's 15-17c on Fri/Sat doesn't materialise-  just the two days you want the best weather!

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  • Location: Purley, Surrey - 246 Ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: January 1987 / July 2006
  • Location: Purley, Surrey - 246 Ft ASL

July was glorious here, sunshine for days on end, most days above 20C (yes, in the West of Scotland this is heatwave territory!) and the ground had that parched look for weeks, changed towards the end of July though as conditions broke down. August very dull and disappointing though, a poor summer month for the last decade now. June was mixed with a nice first 10 days then duller and wetter. At least at no point you could ever say it was a washout Posted Image

 

Been a good August in the SE - above 20c comfortably on most days.

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Looking further ahead, the GEFS 12z mean is rather good, at least for the southern half of the uk with high pressure in control for much of the period spanning mid month, warm and benign conditions but generally more changeable across the north of the BI. In the meantime, enjoy the next few days of very warm and sunny weather, especially the further south/se you are, by friday it will be turning much cooler and wetter as a trough moves in and the weekend also looks relatively cool and unsettled with showers and longer periods of rain but also some sunny spells, notice how the in situ trough fills during the early part of next week with pressure then rising more generally with increasingly fine and pleasantly warm conditions returning for the second half of next week onwards, eventually with an increasing risk of overnight mist and fog, on balance it would be much better across the southern half of britain with n.ireland & scotland having a fine spell for a while next week but then trending more unsettled with time but with occasional fine and warmer intervals, all in all, the 12z gefs mean is very encouraging beyond the unsettled and cooler end of this week and start of next week, much better for more of the uk than the latest met office update described today.

 

 

 

It's the same frosty anyweather, you can tell by the lack of paragraphs :D

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  • Location: Yorkshire Puddin' aka Kirkham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
  • Weather Preferences: cold winters, cold springs, cold summers and cold autumns
  • Location: Yorkshire Puddin' aka Kirkham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

It's the same frosty anyweather, you can tell by the lack of paragraphs Posted Image

and also ironically by the lack of any frosty forecasts Posted Image

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  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)
  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)

Although we've drawn a close on the official Summer, no one has told Mother Nature:

 

Two-day heatwave will be hottest September days for SEVEN YEARS as heat maps show how this year's summer has been up to 2C hotter than average

  • [*]Summer 2013 topped by 2003 and 2006 - but better than 2011 and 2012 [*]Temperatures of 28C today in South East and 30C tomorrow in London [*]But heavy rain and 20C expected across parts of Britain by end of week

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2411000/UK-weather-Two-day-heatwave-hottest-September-days-seven-years.html#ixzz2dusk6YNH 

 

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  • Location: Berlin, Germany
  • Weather Preferences: Ample sunshine; Hot weather; Mixed winters with cold and mild spells
  • Location: Berlin, Germany

Here is the 2013 summer heat map showing just how good this summer was across the UK nice to see lot of reds on the map

 

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And boy does that map show the impact of the endless NEly winds we've had this year! And the low cloud that the North Sea has 'gifted' so much of us with. Great in the west though!

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  • Location: Cleeve, North Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Continental winters & summers.
  • Location: Cleeve, North Somerset

Here is the 2013 summer heat map showing just how good this summer was across the UK nice to see lot of reds on the map

 

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Almost certainly tainted by July only. June wasn't hot and August only had 3 hot days.

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  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, convective precipitation, snow, thunderstorms, "episodic" months.
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Browsing through the Met Office's provisional maps for Summer 2013, the map that Gavin posted looks like the July mean maximum temperature anomaly relative to 1961-1990.

 

Here's the provisional mean max temperature anomaly relative to 1981-2010 for the summer as a whole:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/anomacts/2013/14/2013_14_MaxTemp_Anomaly_1981-2010.gif

 

Although sunshine anomalies for June showed a west-east split, the temperature anomaly split was north-south with most of Scotland and north-west England warmer than average, and southern and central England on the cool side.  Temperature and sunshine anomalies during July were exceptional in the west, but somewhat less so in the east, and then the west-east split reversed during August, which was warm and quite sunny in many eastern areas but a cloudy month with near-average temperatures in many parts of the west.

 

Unusually, the regional distribution of rainfall totals doesn't appear to show much correlation with temperature or sunshine amounts.  I'm guessing that this will be due to the incidence of dry cloudy weather in the east from North Sea stratocumulus during June and July, and also due to the wettest spell of the summer (late July, early August) having produced above-average temperatures and close to average sunshine in most places as the rain was often of a heavy thundery nature, and so the traditional association between rainfall and cool cloudy conditions was somewhat dampened.

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  • Location: Keyingham, East Yorkshire
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish plumes, hot and sunny with thunderstorms
  • Location: Keyingham, East Yorkshire

The 2 month spell from 5th July to 5th September was the peak of Summer 2013. Hopefully it will mark a turning point in our summers and the horrible wet southerly tracking jet ones can be consigned to history.

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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington

Full report on summer 2013 can be found here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23970253

 

Hopefully its the start of many more to come about time 6 wash out summers in a row was way too many

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  • Location: Leeds
  • Weather Preferences: snow, heat, thunderstorms
  • Location: Leeds

Definitely hasn't been 6 washout summers here!

 

Almost certainly tainted by July only. June wasn't hot and August only had 3 hot days.

It was still firmly above-average though, just consistently warm.

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  • Location: Leeds
  • Weather Preferences: snow, heat, thunderstorms
  • Location: Leeds
Posted · Hidden by cheese, September 7, 2013 - No reason given
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Almost certainly tainted by July only. June wasn't hot and August only had 3 hot days.

It was still firmly above-average though, just consistently warm.

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  • Location: Aberdeen
  • Location: Aberdeen

Sunshine far from impressive in Eastern Scotland with July the only sunny month.

 

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/anomacts/2013/6/2013_6_Sunshine_Anomaly_1981-2010.gif

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/anomacts/2013/7/2013_7_Sunshine_Anomaly_1981-2010.gif

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/anomacts/2013/8/2013_8_Sunshine_Anomaly_1981-2010.gif

 

and overall most of Fife and parts of Angus managed only average sunshine with most of the rest of the region having a modest surplus though Moray did very well due to being more sheltered from easterlies:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/anomacts/2013/14/2013_14_Sunshine_Anomaly_1981-2010.gif

 

It's just not good enough given that this part of the country has suffered the worst of the lack of sunshine over the past 6 years.

It's about time we had another summer where the anomalies come out like this:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/anomacts/2003/14/2003_14_Sunshine_Anomaly_1971-2000.gif

 

Hopefully summer 2014!

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  • Location: Keyingham, East Yorkshire
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish plumes, hot and sunny with thunderstorms
  • Location: Keyingham, East Yorkshire

Yes, I'm not making it up, it was a cloudy summer here. July's sunshine anomaly wasn't even that great compared to almost everywhere else. I was hoping to get over 50% of possible sun in July but that didn't happen. It's been a cloudy year in general though with only April and July having above average sunshine, although February was very 'average' according to the Reading Met site.

 

The overall sunshine anomaly maps for summer 2013 and the individual month ones would suggest otherwise.

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  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, convective precipitation, snow, thunderstorms, "episodic" months.
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire

The Met Office's actual and anomaly maps will be interpolated based on the network of weather stations and, in the case of the sunshine statistics, will be interpolated also based on the conversion between Kipp-Zonen and Campbell-Stokes sensors.  Thus, while they give a very good guide, they will sometimes fail to pick up on local variability, for example they failed to fully represent the suppression of sunshine totals in coastal NE England due to a week of "haar" at the end of July 2008 and again in June 2009. 

 

The claim of below-average sunshine at Church Fenton (albeit only a slight deficiency) is supported by the data at Roger Brugge's site, but I think the Met Office's sunshine anomaly maps paint the correct general picture, i.e. the region had a sunnier-than-average summer with just localised exceptions.

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  • Location: Shrewsbury
  • Location: Shrewsbury

You can see the Shropshire cloud effect on both the July and August maps actually: on July's the 150% line does a strange westward deviation around the county's boundaries to leave it in the not so sunny area: on August's the grey/white follows the Shropshire/Cheshire border remarkably well. Also see Aug 2003 and April 2011( and what about that summer 2003 map with our own little dark grey circle!) among other examples....

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  • Location: Yorkshire Puddin' aka Kirkham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
  • Weather Preferences: cold winters, cold springs, cold summers and cold autumns
  • Location: Yorkshire Puddin' aka Kirkham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

The "Shropshire cloud effect" should be added to the Netweather urban dictionary.  Posted Image

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  • Location: Chelmsford
  • Weather Preferences: Hot and dry summers with big thunderstorms.
  • Location: Chelmsford

I suppose we should thank the Met Office really who reported that we could have another 10 cool wet summers during June this year due to the +AMO.

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  • Location: Paris suburbs
  • Location: Paris suburbs

You can see the Shropshire cloud effect on both the July and August maps actually: on July's the 150% line does a strange westward deviation around the county's boundaries to leave it in the not so sunny area: on August's the grey/white follows the Shropshire/Cheshire border remarkably well. Also see Aug 2003 and April 2011( and what about that summer 2003 map with our own little dark grey circle!) among other examples....

But if the Shropshire cloud effect was persistent, then it would be reflected in the averages and not the anomalies. All of your examples with relatively less sunshine in Shropshire compared to elsewhere in the country would therefore be cancelled out by examples of Shropshire getting relatively more sunshine in the rest of the country.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/averages/ukmapavge.html

You can get averages here. Perhaps it's because Shropshire finds itself between the Irish sea coast, which has plenty of sunshine, and the south, which also has relatively more sunshine but doesn't benefit from either of these locations. But it's still sunnier than the upland areas surrounding Shropshire.

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  • Location: Sunderland
  • Weather Preferences: cold
  • Location: Sunderland

July 2013 was the second warmest month since records began in 1880, here in Durham.

 

Provisionally, compared to the 1981-10 averages, here at Durham:

June 13.5c (8.9c/18.1c) +0.2c

July 18c (23.2c/12.8c) +2.4c

August 16.25c (20.6c/11.9c) +0.85c

 

A very warm summer, all months above average. June-August provisionally coming in at 15.9c, +1.1c above the 81-10 average.

 

Last 10 years:

2012: 14.2c (-0.6c)

2011: 14.3c (-0.5c)

2010: 15.1c (+0.3c)

2009: 15.0c (+0.2c)

2008: 15.0c (+0.2c)

2007: 14.5c (-0.3c)

2006: 16.2c (+1.4c)

2005: 15.1c (+0.3c)

2004: 15.2c (+0.4c)

2003: 16.2c (+1.4c)

 

Provisionally the warmest July-August (17.1c) ever here at Durham. A very notable summer. Another interesting fact, July's minimum temperature average was warmer than July 2006's by 0.4c.

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  • Location: Edmonton Alberta(via Chelmsford, Exeter & Calgary)
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine and 15-25c
  • Location: Edmonton Alberta(via Chelmsford, Exeter & Calgary)

here is a chart i posted backed in October 2012 with regard to 7th July 2013 anyone have the actual chart for that date to see how it accurate it was?

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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington

here is a chart i posted backed in October 2012 with regard to 7th July 2013 anyone have the actual chart for that date to see how it accurate it was?

 

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