IanR

nice summery weather for the working week while we cant apprieciate, now the weekend is here it knows, and is giving us two fingers by giving dross again to the weather gods..... just get lost .I dont give a hoots anymore, you are only going to do the same next week , arent you

I take it no one in wales or devon and cornwall got any decent thunder amd lightning , if any at all , its just not the same now is it

four possibly five thunder days here, about the yearly average, but i had horrible feeling we used up the qota by early june, seems we have . expecting nothing here now until 2017

i hate to depress, but next summer is likely to be similar, as most of the summers since 2012 have , apart from july 2013 there hasnt been any decent heatwaves that last a week, climate change is real, summers are now the grey season

recent summers daytime maximums seem to be getting a touch cooler overall, apart from rare odd 30c days here and there that gives misleading 'better than average' temps for the cet, gone are days of consistant warm temps in the low to mid twenties over a few weeks , its seems to be cooler temps are the norm , then we get one day of 30c that gives the summer months faux above average readings, this july was a good example, mostly a lot of cool depressing grey days, but one 31c day , now we have a warm month overall, crazy seems its all or nothing

looks dissapointing so far here today, was expecting a sunny monring with just some occasional nuisance cloud for a short time in the afternoon as a little mild convection gets going, but its the same cloudy crapola again with the odd glimps of the sun, and small slivers of blue sky through the heavy looking clouds, arn't we allowed to just have a decent fully sunny day on a weekend goddammit, just one, it really is such a hard task, I suppose there is time yet

summers have become much more cloudy here over the last decade, without a doubt, another day , another clag infested murky grey sky, so common over the summer months, summer was always my favourite season, not any more , roll on autumn, may see some of that nice autumnal sun , better chance than in the grey months...ie june july and august

dont get your hopes up for those months either, definatley a reduction in thunderyness over the last few years in these parts too, i still blame that pesky cold blob in the atlantic for our recent woeful summers, ever since that emerged we seem to be in perpertual autumn. expecting next summer to be just as naff

the c**p summer continues here, the output isnt encouraging either, the very warm air exiting north america , interacting with the cold blob in the north atlantic, and yes, you guessed.... a fired up jet with its asscociated troughs making a beeline for us, why do they have a love affair with us

same here, i like warm..ish, sunny summer days , not exceessive heat and cloudy humid weather, i did like cloudy humid weather in yearrs gone by, because it seemed to bring good chances of thunderyness , not that does not apply in recent summers for reasons unkown, so if it aint gonna bring storms, do one please

a very warm and humid feeling week here, peaking on tuesday, enduring all that stickiness, hoping to get a storm at some point but just one pathetic rumble heard on wednesday morning, no lightning seen, tuesday had so much potential , but the timings where wrong as usual, imagine if that cap had lifted during the late evening when it was still 29c at 10.00pm , instead of wedeneday morning when the air had cooled, could have been widespread activity over the north west, instead of just over the extreme western edges bitterly dissapointed , the wait goes on

i remember , we would get them here too during sulty evenings in the 80's , you could see the distant lighting coming in from the south / slighty south west direction if it was dark enough, seemed the default direction for summer storms , now its always up the irish sea in these setups , or pushes directly east to the east midlands,

its annoying isnt it, it panned out much as i though to be honest, initial forcast for severe storms over north wales , ireland , moving into north west england around 1200pm , i was anticipating an early hours light and sound show , then the bbc forcast last night delayed it until morning, i knew then it was game over, ,maybe one or two rumbles as i head into work, then it will all kick off in the midlands, eastern counties, even though they had only isolated showers forcast, oh look what happened, just as i thought ! nothing for the majority of the north west, but big storms in the east , now heading for linconlshire etc i wrote the script before it happened , all too predicatable,

a big fail here, to far east , just one rumble heard on my way into work, thought it was a passing lorry over the drone of the traffic, then realised it was thunder, seems all the storms always go up the irish sea in these west based plume events recently pathetic thundery spell for most of the populated areas of north west england

looks a good chance here , hmmmm we will see, unfortunatley, if it happens it could be during the early hours when i want sleep. work tommorrow damn

just spotted an angel over wigan way, you can see her head with her face illuminated by the setting sun,body and the wings streching up , what cloud formation is this , cirrus ?

mid july and still too cold to sit out in the garden without a thick sweater on to be comfortable

ever since that cold blob in the atlanic reared its head its been the same, I am convinced its the root cause of the same weather type most of the rear round, with summer just being slighty warmer than winter, I dont care what anybody says, the climate has changed over the last decade, summers in the 70 's 80's and 90's where better , ok there was lots of dross mixed in with good amounts of warm summery weather , some years more so, and some less so, but a good spell was almost guaranteed in the school holidays in july and first half of august, all thats guaranteed now is an altanic succession of troughs and cool temps , with the odd fleeting ray of sun now and again, expect high summer next year to be the same. the cold blob needs to do one,

ever since that cold blob in the atlanic reared its head its been the same, I am convinced its the root cause of the same weather type most of the rear round, with summer just being slighty warmer than winter, I dont care what anybody says, the climate has changed over the last decade, summers in the 70 's 80's and 90's where better , ok there was lots of dross mixed in with good amounts of warm summery weather , some years more so, and some less so, but a good spell was almost guaranteed in the school holidays in july and first half of august, all thats guaranteed now is an altanic succession of troughs and cool temps , with the odd fleeting ray of sun now and again, expect high summer next year to be the same. the cold blob needs to do one,

bbc week ahead forcast very depressing , more of the same, even next weekend, they are not even giving the slightest hint at this so called summer weather forcast on some of the models, next weekend has the jet right over us , with low after low after low

the bbc week ahead forcast mentioned the jet stream is to blame, with synoptics upsteam in the states not helping , then the contrast of temps in the atlantic exciting the jet even more, seems to me. and am no expert , but that cool north atlantic is the root blame for our run of poor summers , although i respect, there are more complex reasons

last july saw a brief rather intense plume about this time, and gave some good storms,..... I know this has been posted before , but always worth another look, the supercell like storm, that was tormenting the warrington , wigan and manchester area underneath it then it later decided to scare the hell out of west yorkshire too , here it is viewed from a distance in derbyshire , a bit dark at first but it gets better after a minute or so

i dont think its a blip, we will have naff summers until the cold blob in the atlantic does one if it ever does, could it be the cold blob creating a steeper temp gradient , therefore egging on the jet stream , if so , welcome to the modern summer,

sky looking messy here now , no more structured cb's , just overcast, thunder seems to be dieing

edit,,,,just another crack of thunder here , what a day