Froze were the Days

Thanks for that...why are the MetO saying that it is on par with 1976?

Well not according to the MetO...on a par with 1976 which I find a bit bewildering. When your referring to '5th warmest summer on record' is that by Central England Temperature? as MetO details hottest ever summer on record in England with same figure as 76'

How can it be the joint hottest on record equalling 1976?...on the August CET thread Hadley had 16.6c for August which made 2018 5th hottest so what's gone on? Maybe Roger J Smith/Bornfromthevoid can answer this, personally didn't feel it was hot as 1976, June certainly wasn't. MetO doctoring figures? and by the way I'm not a GW sceptic.

A lot of dry fairly mild/warm days (not overly warm) with some cooler foggy nights with some frosts as we approach November, doubt it will happen.

ECM reverts back to good old HP close to the south in 8/9 days time backed up by GFS 12z and a warm to very warm Tm air mass after what looked like a cooler period with blocking to the north and fairly settled, so now only a cooler period country wide for a few days after about Monday/Tuesday but as others have mentioned could be rainy for a couple of days or so after that.

Up until the first week of August here in the south east I'd say the summer would be definitely in the top 2 in the record books, but there has been a similarity with 1976 (here anyway) both June/July great though June not as hot as the one in 76' and August the most disappointing month again similar to 1976 with the last 3 weeks or so somewhat mixed/cloudy at times with temperatures nearer normal after the very warm first week. Agree with above post May-July unequalled in my opinion. Here in the south east might just make it into the top 3 or 4 since records began...not sure where I can check for regions, MetO maybe? Highest temp: 32.1c

Thanks for the Autumn forecast Thundery wintery showers...so fairly mild up to November. Made me chuckle what cold anomalies that are forecast are over the Atlantic and over the continents no colder than normal anomaly to be seen anywhere!

There's a surprise who would have guessed the return of high pressure and reasonably warm weather as we go into September - fairly predictable the weather's becoming.

1981-2010 average, that's probably why. Here in the south east the mild January more than off-set the average December and cool February.

Not sure if 2017/18 was a cold winter?

Probably Best, 1987 - Extensive bitter cold and heavy drifting snow, Hurricane in October (89 mph registered here). Worst, maybe 1988, can't remember a lot happening other than the deluge July and a brief bit of snow around mid-month of November. 1989 not much better but at least the summer was fairly good. Feb 1983 had some snow in London (an inch or so), and most of Xmas holidays 1981 in the south east only had patchy snow on the ground and became foggy for a while, only parts of Kent and East Sussex had any substantial snow remaining (in the south east) from a fall around 21st or so if I remember rightly.

That's true!...a few to pick from ranging from cool to cold: 1995/96, 1996/97, 2000/01, (a tad below), 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2012/13.

Have to say of recent years (since mid-late 90's) there has been a dearth of cool/cold winters which have followed a warm September...so maybe something to keep an eye on, 2009 the only fly in the ointment though.

But milder than average temps...in the south/south east anyway. (What's new)?...synoptically large spells of this summer from June to mid-July haven't exactly been exciting either.

Irlam - Manchester?...not here in the south east it wasn't, bad but some in the mid-80's here were worse. Maybe it's a regional thing and people's memories of more recent events, Manchester probably has had many poor summers.

rubbish!...1985, 86 and 88 (particularly one of the wettest July's of the 20th century) were all worse than 2012, make no mistake. Make's me wonder how old you are?

Yep although the weather is becoming more transient it all looks pretty flat with that ridge from the displaced Azores high pushing towards us and the near continent. The next week looks warm if not very warm and muggy at times (sadly) and not wall to wall sunshine either, feeling that this summer as the MetO said has some time to run (as if it's not gone on long enough). Sad thing now we still have some precipitation but we don't look like losing the heat (in the south anyway) - so the weeding starts all over again.

A zippy, Geoffrey, George and Bungle to the east - which hasn't been seen here for a few months which is nice!

Real big storm here presently, rumbles of thunder, lightning heavy rain and hail. As mentioned with unstable cooler air masses comes bigger storms, beats the last few attempts when it was hot and humid!

Seems impossible to achieve now days in summer to get an air mass from a northerly or northwesterly, yes please! Recently glimpses at day 9 or 10 but then turns into a flat westerly in reality.

eeerrr!...going by the latest ECM output it doesn't encourage me although the weather looks somewhat more unsettled we see just as much warm humid Tm air in the mix as we do Pm air. Hardly a north westerly in sight if you live in the south.Let's hope this model is off the mark.

Sadly just a 'blip' until satin's bottom weather returns...I just wish it would do one, we've had months of it.

Pretty tame affair last night here on the Essex Riviera, some rumbles of thunder and a total of 1mm of rain which all in all is pretty pathetic.

Perhaps a colder Atlantic compared to now as well...the bigger the contrasts.

Little bit too much of a westerly component as well tonight, I like my plumes coming up way from the south - 10th June 1994 produced a cracker of an evening with bolt lightning, hail, heavy rain for 3/4 of an hour - a real fireworks display.