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Mostly cloudy, low of 10°C last night and now up to 18°C, the average max for July.

I for one certainly know that high pressure to the west sucks and means too much cloud and cold (like today, a bone chilling 16 degrees in July, again). And now the cloud amounts have been systematically upgraded ONCE MORE.

I bloody well want to see some more days at least 20°C, how the fudge is it summer when it doesn't reach that for 2 weeks? For God's SAAAAAKKKKEKEEE

Turned out fairly average here. High of 19°C after a low of 10°C last night, and I'd estimate about 6-7 hours of the shiny stuff. Less windy than yesterday.

Reached 19c at 1 o clock now down to 18 again under some clouds.

17.5 degrees and scattered clouds.

Reached 18 degrees with a sunny afternoon.

Sunny spells, 15°C, hopefully the sun will stay out and it should reach about 18 degrees today.

Managed 17.5°C here which is the highest maximum temperature since 15th, if that can be believed, which of course it can be, here. Not quite enough to really enjoy being outdoors for any length of time without getting cold. Would like to see the next 20 arrive soon.

Now up to 101.4mm of rain this month at my house, and 104mm of rain at the nearby weather station.

I was under the impression that the latest output I've seen (the 06z) was rather an improvement especially for western areas. The only thing that "bothers" me slightly is the persistence of higher pressure at higher-than-usual latitudes on the charts. Such as the azores high being much further north in the Atlantic, bringing more northerly winds over the UK, when usually it would be south of the UK bringing up mild tropical maritime air. Also, the high pressure building over Greenland again.

Low of 5.6 degrees last night. Not really an improvement on recent days, as it's becoming cloudy with the temperature at 15.1°C.

NYC's July avg max is 30°C. The 38.5°C in Kent in August 2003 was actually far more impressive considering the avg. max of 22°C. Edit: I thought 1991 was a good example of a year with a poor June, average July and good August.

Drab rubbish and now it's raining again. Hi today was 16.2°C, with less than 3 hours of sunshine, a chilly low of 8.5°C last night.

Did anybody mention Becky Mantin? http://www.tvrage.com/person/id-301804/Becky+Mantin Her appearance makes me positive from the weather forecast whatever the weather forecast says.

Not totally convinced really. Knowing our luck it will be chock a block with anticyclonic gloom and convective infill to some degree.

Don't you say that about every run? Since like over 2 months ago? And it's been bleedin' crap so far. I'm still not convinced of any sign of real improvement on these charts, which look exactly like the same thing we've had, with the blocking high pressure to the west, giving us a lovely northerly (stinking) airflow which is what we don't need in summer. At least here, that will give us the usual stable-marine layer with sunny morning, convective cloud hitting an inversion and spreading into stratocumulus cumulogenitus by mid-day, and clearing again by 6:00PM, just before the sun sets. Useless.

What a bleak boring July. Could I get through to the end of the month without a single 20°C in the second half? My vote yes.

I wish I was in Oklahoma right now. Those heavenly 107 degree highs they had recently make me yearn.

Agreed on both this counts, exactly the way it is indeed. Consistent, never ending mediocrity. Not warm spells balanced by cooler spells, more like continuous slightly below average dross, so the averages don't look terrible on paper, but the everyday experience is one of gloomy, cool monotony and tedium. This place I live in also hasn't had a thunderstorm this year, which is strange, and I've had a couple of rumbles of thunder on just three days this year, far below the supposed average of 10 days or so.

Freezing cold October's day again (the 7th in a row now). Just 14.2 degrees and full overcast, even some spits of rain falling.

15.0°C

I never knew we could be on the way to the 2nd sunniest July in 8 years with only 102 hours sunshine so far. LOL What gets me is not alone the Peak District's climate but the sheer mediocrity and consistent boringness of this summer. The forecast shows 15°C highs and overcast for almost every single day in the next 6 days! It's just devoid of anything interesting or good.

So, July then, at least the way it was here: Mediocre bog standard boring homogenous crap for a week, followed by an epic drizzle-fest of some 2 and a half inches rain, with record low max temperatures mid-month, and now what appears to be a hideous north-easterly wind development flexing its muscles to chill this rotten little Island further, summing up the first two months of this tedious gnarly cold borefest non-summer. Then we'll have August, a month that better shape its ass into gear and provide at least a week of summery weather, not a heatwave (now that would be asking too much), or this will go down as the worst summer I've experienced in my entire life. I wish I'd spent my savings on that holiday in Florida now for my storms and my summer but I still somehow have an interest in weather enough to have bought a weather station instead. Before anyone comes on whining at me about my whine at the weather, go talk to a wall. And have a nice day!

Well what about that 12z.... what a bloody screw up for my neck of the woods.... highs of 18-20 degrees now downgraded to 14-16 degrees, well below average, yet again, in the systematic predictable manner as always with this summer. Sorry for the rant oh ye sensitive hearts out there, I was really hoping for something warm to actually make this July count as a summer month - not expecting a heatwave, or even wall-to-wall sunshine, just some days by which to call it "summer", and now that's been snatched a way as usual. AAAARGGGHHHH.