Summer 2017: Your thoughts.

[Froze were the Days]

That's what makes me think sunny76 isn't very old - I can remember truly bad summer months (okay June 2016 was one of them) from the late 70's, 80's and early 90's, even 2011 (which was mixed but with very warm/hot starts) and 2012 were worse than anything to this date - July 1988 probably takes the biscuit for a poor month and of recent summers 2007 was pretty awful which in comparison certainly makes 2017 look okay.

[Sunny76]

Yes, but that doesn't make them great summers does it. I also know the 1985-88 era had poor summers. 

 

[Dangerous55019]

From a totally IMBY perspective summer 2017 started around here in late May with a very warm/hot spell. 
June was also a half reasonable month, that actually gave us a small thunderstorm on the solstice. 
But I haven't forgotten those four days of continuous rain at the end of June 
July was a month of two halves... Up to the middle of July it was Summer (unless like me you were up and out before 05.00 - Then you could feel and sense the coming autumn in the air). From the middle of July, the pattern changed, and it was a westerly pattern, but still with plenty of fine days and another overhead thunderstorm. 
August... What can I say other than 'Hello Autumn'  But in all fairness, there were plenty of fine usable days. 

With regards to thunderstorms, we've had loads around here, so no complaints there 
But there was a thread earlier this year about the decline in thunder days, and again from a totally IMBY perspective, the big storms of yesteryear have now gone, but here we are now getting loads of much smaller storms, instead of the one off big beasts... And this year has been a classic example of that.