AderynCoch

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Sounds like you're on the wrong forum! People like to talk about the weather on here, whether they're happy with it or not. That we can't change the weather is irrelevant.

Not many days have been sunny and warm from start to finish either. There's been a fair bit of cloud to contend with this month, not all of it bad in my book (convective clouds can look very pretty). And it's only low 20s at best - God help you if an actual heatwave arrives! It's been a dry spell for sure but a drop in the ocean compared with how much rain there was before then. Bring the wind and rain in autumn please (though it's bound to happen sooner anyway).

Lots of interesting weather in Summer 2012 too. Today, dull and wet. Tomorrow, dull and wet. Yesterday, dull and wet. Ugh, I think I need a lie down now.

Do you lot start worrying about the long days of summer after 22nd December passes?

Yeah, because July and August are famous for their long, cold nights.

Noticed it coming back from the pub last night at 12:30am. Still yellows and oranges to the north. Astronomical twilight at our latitude (southern Northern England) lasts from about the middle of May to the end of July. In Lerwick it lasts from 21st April to 21st August.

Definitely. A lot of big house spiders in the back yard too, no doubt thriving on the insect feast. There's a particularly impressive whopper next to the drainpipe. The past week has been better than I was expecting with the sun winning out against the cloud more often than the other way round, meaning plenty of summery weather to be had. Not a bad June at all so far but hardly a vintage one either.

For what it's worth: I saw quite a few thunderstorms on the Costa Brava when I stayed there in 2000, including one of the best storms ever on the train back from Barcelona - a real day-into-nighter with lots of fork lightning striking the sea. I was back there the following year but no storms this time (late July/early August both years). No thunderstorms in Corfu either when I visited in late May 1995.

Looks like it's in-between both of us. I wonder what it's like in Prescot or St Helens.

Frequent thunder here from that cell to the SE. Looks very impressive.

I have to agree. One big thunderstorm last month and maybe that windy night in February is really all that has livened up this most incredibly bland of years so far. A catastrophically mild winter and spring but with little real heat to make up for it, with the near continent yet again hogging it at our expense (they also got very warm temperatures in spring which didn't make it here). The worst mild pattern imaginable. I'm not too concerned about summer at this early stage but if we don't ditch the continual cloud and rain it will be very hard for 2014 to avoid becoming the Year of the Bland, as autumn is usually the blandest season of the lot and early winter hardly ever delivers either. Come back 2002, all is forgiven.

It's currently the peak of the pre-monsoon build-up in that part of India, when the temperatures build until the monsoon rains arrive in earnest. The onset of the monsoon should take place some time this month.

Thunderstorm here at the moment with some biblical rain. It's tailing off a bit now.

Today wasn't quite as horrid as I was expecting. The forecast was for rain all day with a high of 13C but it's been dry bar a light shower this morning and wonders of wonders the sun even started to break through in the afternoon, allowing the temperature to reach the dizzy heights of 15C. Looks like the rain ended up more south than forecast; the opposite happened here on 13th July 2012 (which was a Friday, naturally) when a band forecast for the Midlands ended up further north and gave us a washout day with a high of 14C - the nadir of a ghastly "summer". A minor victory.

Holy late entry, Batman. 15.0

I have to disagree. It's been one of the warmest springs on record in spite of the actual weather that has entailed rather than because of it. How much truly warm, summery weather have we had that would be befitting of an exceptionally warm spring? Not that much really. Yes, the middle of this month was nice but not out of place in an average spring (i.e. one of warmer and colder spells). A few warm, sunny days is the least we should expect. This spring has been consistently mild, offering nothing remotely wintry but hardly venturing towards the other extreme either. Overall 2014 has been a very bland year so far. I'd give it 2/10 at a stretch, with the 19th of this month preventing it from being 1/10 at best.

Awful, awful day. Apart from some breaks in the evening when it was getting low, I don't think I've seen the sun at all since that excellent day on the 19th when it was sunny and warm with an evening thunderstorm. For the time of year such an extended paucity of sunshine is nothing short of horrendous. Boy are we being made to pay for having a few nice days.

I've had this problem myself. I have a friend from France who moved to England in 2007 and had a very hard time convincing him that the run of horrible summers which followed was highly unusual rather than being the norm. The thing with stereotypes is that people will subconsciously seek conformation bias to back them up. If somebody comes to this country when it's hot and sunny they will declare it to be unusual, whereas someone who turns up during a cold, wet spell will have their preconceptions reinforced.

A blackbird came into our yard the other day, which was a weird sight as the birds hardly ever venture right in. We had a lot of garden spider hatchlings by the shed a week or so ago. Not many tegenaria webs yet which usually start flourishing round about now.

I just want to know why only the crappy weather patterns like this one seem to get "locked in". Why couldn't the pattern have become "locked in" a week ago when it was warm and sunny?

Really noticeable tonight while having a late night. Looking out my window at 3am the light is very noticeable to the NE, and the solstice is still four weeks away.

It's not just the lack of snow, it's the severe paucity of anything resembling "wintriness" such as frost and cold, crispy days. How many air frosts did you manage since autumn? I think I've had three at the most. Absolutely dreadful. To think that mobile westerly pattern lasted throughout virutally the entire winter period. I'm sure someone up in the sky is trolling us.

Probably 11th May 2008. Some time late in the afternoon a warm and sunny day suddenly gave way to a big thunderstorm. I got stranded in the pub as both the bowling green and the main road turned into lakes. My best birthday weatherwise.

Just when I thought it was dying off, we get another big flash of lightning. A good lifespan to this cell.