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Summer is well and truely over. Once we get into this kind of pattern it goes on for months at a time. Sure we have had good days inbetween but thats just been a let up between the low's..

Northern france and the Holland get pretty much what we get to... We get a good summer once in a while.. A poor summer now and then and most of the time a stop start affair.. I must say i was pretty miffed myself with last summer,I would take that right now compared to this summer.. From what i hear we are not going to get a single summer month this year .at least June was good in 2010.. At least we havent had them nights where its been difficult to sleep.Thats been a blessing in disguise...

The problems i think people are having is with the summer weather we have had in the last say 5 years.. There is no settled periods at all.. Am no weather expert but surely we are due some kind of settled warm spell in one of these summers? So people see whats happening and are writing off this summer too..

I totally agree with these sentiments.. we are not Spain or Greece.. We get what we are given in the UK..If we dont get a settled summer month we don't. As its simply not guranteed.. Knowing our climate September may well be the summer month we have all longed for since the end of May.Strange how April is turning out to be only decent warm month of the whole year though..

Looking at your avatar picture, you have eaten the nettles

Maybe we only notice the nice summers and ignore the countless summers where the Jet stream stays this far south? and thats just part of our weather in the UK?..

Hello again You say its unusal for July? I would like to add that its not..And the previous Julys have proven this?... We are lucky in the UK if the Jet stream pushes that far north for long enough to give us a good a summer.. But the Usual weather in the summer is a mixture of everything..

Thanks .... From what i recall from last year we had almost 5 weeks of good weather from the start of June till the first week in July then it went belly up..

Sorry to put a spanner in the works again... But last summer upto the current dates on both years.Last year was far better then its currently been in 2011..

goodbye

I think next summer will be shades of 2003... If it turns out to be like 2007 then the "general public" will be to stupid to realise its not.. In my personal opinion.The netweather summer forecast was late this year. For the reasons they were wondering wether to post their findings of how they believe the summer will turn out,and to steal the headlines they mentioned 1976 in the headline.. I hope from now on, no one will exgerate without "real evidence" and with the uk weather being as it is. There is no real evidence to what will happen..

Sorry the usage of 1976 in the orginal forecast gives the general public it was going to be like the summer of 1976.. You can't blame the general public.You need to blame the people that used that summer in the forecast.. Just take alook at the responces of the "general public" on this site everyone was over joyed. Proper summer for once some mentioned etc.. Further more from what iv'e seen of late the forecast a week ahead keeps changing..I read up on how the second half of July was going to be an improvement that was 4 days ago from forecasters. Now its changed again.. Long distance forecasting does not work (IMO) There as so many variables in the bristh weather its imposible to predict more then 4/5 days ahead..

how dare does pressure be so high over Greenland After all its part of the artic circle

Plenty of sunshine here in Westyorkshire... Not a bad summers day.The central and southern part of the country is under a weather front..

Still sunny and very warm here in westyorkshire..

I see sweaty people when its like this..Not a good thing.. and all the water they use for showers to keep cool..

Your May might have had heat,But here in west yorkshire May was quite sunny but not overly warm..Months like April are an exception to the rule in the UK. if the winds dont come from the south or south east we dont get any heat even in the summer. we do on ocassions when the jet stream moves north.But the jet stream is never reliable to stay north of us for very long.. All am trying to convey is the summers the original poster wants is not factual to the summers we get.. Everyone remembers summers like 2003 1995 2001 and 2006.. But there in the minority compared to what we actually see.. And recent summers we have been influenced either from LP or HP being centered to the NW...

well that was winter that was months ago?? so you disagree with me? on my assumption our weather mainly comes from the atlantic?. whats been happening in recent weeks then?

How summer is meant to be? If our Feburarys and Marche's were as warm as Spains and the rest of the med..then later on in the year the tempertures would be higher during the summer months. the more norther you go the colder it is,stands to reason.. We are influenced by the atlantic more or less most of the time..

Thats entirely true! From a personal observation September is a more reliable month then June.. Though the last two previous Junes have been excellent

Is that what you do to get people banned accuse them of trolling? You seem to be following me around?

Lets face it the summers in the UK apart from the odd good Summer that everyone remembers because they were good,summers are usually unsettled with the odd good week thrown in now and again.. Summer 2011 will turn out to be poor again.Why? well there is no sign of it settling down for along time and when it does it will be to late yet again..if you want good summers go south

Well we haven't seen that much rain in recent months.. After we get a glimse of summer..next month sometime..It will be a passing thought.We will get one of them slow moving lows that will sit directly over us.Winds will drop and low will stagnate and stay around for along time.. Of late we are getting weather fronts that bring bands of showers day after day.Alot of us are hoping to see a big area of HP to build in from the SW moving the weather fronts north... I think we will get a big low that will build in.The winds will drop like i said and we will be stuck with it. Therefore ending the remaining part of the summer...

Whos gloating? we may well get a good July. But i understand the british climate quite well.. one of the next two summer months maybe August is going to be extremely wet... if we do get some good weather in July. August with go with a bang and rain for weeks on end.. Thats just my prognosis...

Am still waiting for the long hot summer with shades of 76 that was predicted on this very site..Guess the 2nd weekend in August when we see 25c will be it