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@Vorticity0123: Yet another brill post from you, and an excellent breakdown regarding frontal disturbances and thundery weather. Bravo Vorticity, Bravo!
Certainly some excitement for the Southern UK storm enthusiasts for the next few days. And although this will likely become a nowcasting situation keeping guard of the window, hopefully those who have not seen any proper thundery weather yet will get a storm. Though does look as though it could be a hit and miss situation. Flooding will certainly be something to watch as well (which could cause some travel disruption for places, particularly towards the South).
Quite like, also, that it looks as though the deep Atlantic Low and the shallow French Low are going to be racing each other to see who can reach the UK first:
(Charts used from latest GFS 06Z run)
But there can only be one winner:
(To be fair, though, both Low Pressure systems do end up joining forces with each other towards the weekend).
image.jpgStill has warm air over the UK though so it will probably be storms and not frontal rain I would of thought.
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this is just plain wrong, talking of Falkland summers
Endless 14 degrees, cloud and drizzle for you to languish in, all summer.
The average high for Stanley is 14C for both January and February, and it rains on 17 days each month. So this isn't wrong thanks. Src, Source: Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia
Also "johnholmes" don't get fooled by the rainfall averages, just because it doesn't look that high the rain comes in the form of drizzle and frontal rain that goes on for hours, and happens frequently, so it still is a horribly cool damp feeling summer. Denying that is just wanton obtuseness TBH.
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I heard a few rumbles of thunder earlier and its light raining. It is bin day here as well though today so that could be what I heard.
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Another sunny 25 degrees as usual.
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I'm not addicted to anything weather thankfully, I think if I was I'd probably be in need of a shrink. I mean there are more important things in life...
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I prefer "cool, cloudy crap" a lot of the time, it's better fishing weather (and general outdoor weather without getting uncomfortable). Besides, "cool" down here isn't really cool at all, more like 18-20C, which doesn't in the slightest bit feel chilly.
As it turns out I am going abroad in September, but thankfully I am going to Norway.
The UK has one of the coolest summers in the world. You couldn't really find a much better place if you like cool summers. Even subarctic parts Canada and Russia often has warmer summers at much higher latitudes. So people wishing on even colder than average temperatures really need to stop this trolling and really find a way to perhaps relocate to Iceland or Svalbard which has summers more to your taste. How about the Falkland Islands? At least the UK actually own them, and you might be able to get a transfer. Endless 14 degrees, cloud and drizzle for you to languish in, all summer.
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But thats the point, he isnt bigging them up, hes posting the charts the outputs are showing. Its not his doing they they generally have failed to evolve as predicted.
Maybe not, but then it should be a lesson that charts over 5+ days rarely become the reality and showing them does often raise some people's expectations. He also does cherry pick charts, from certain days, missing out less good looking days.
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All I've seen Frosty doing is posting charts over 5 days ago bigging up any warm or settled weather constantly all summer, with most areas not getting anything like the kind of weather that people's expectations (not mine though) are played up to.
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See this again is how people see things with or without the MO or their own weather stations or just there feel of weather from living a long while and taking an interest in it.
Where ever you are in essex se england its not here.
Had I not watered my plants every day bar a few, then my garden would be dead.
If we had average rainfall for July and it all fell on one day which it can often do.
Say 1st July, what do the plants do for the next 30 days, but the history tells us oh no problem we had average rainfall for this month.
I don't mean to be awkward but you cannot ever rely totally on an overall average for a month or season, because it hides many factors in our day to day life.
I expect that you missed much of the heavy rain events did you, I would bet that you must have got a lot less rain than I did locally. In fact I think that's probably the case seeing as you are over on the coast there, that missed some of the storms. That would be indicated by the stats.
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They are objective to a certain degree - but you can't always take them at face value. A month might appear wet, but if most of it fell one one or two days, then it probably didn't feel wet at all - so why should I or anyone else care? That was the case in July - most of it fell on two days, with most days registering no rainfall at all. That seems perfectly sensible to me.
Cos in some people's cases the amount of rain in the month is important regarding agriculture and more important reasons then whether the month felt wet or not. It would maybe have been better in fact if the rain had fallen more evenly distributed throughout the month, than in a couple of bigger rain events from the agricultural perspective, but if July had been really truly dry there would have been some serious problems growing my plants properly, thankfully it wasn't too bad but if July had been drier than June I would have been worried.
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Anomaly charts happen to show an objective picture of how temps and rainfall deviated from the average. We all know "Impressions" people have can vary wide and far even regarding exactly the same thing. Let's make climatology and weather into the science it is supposed to be and not some silly opinion fest with people making silly judgments about how the weather "felt" to them. Anyway it's been average rainfall here in July but June was dry,, however parts of eastern england can classify as almost semi-arid some years. Temps bang average, or slightly below, NORMAL.Totally normal NOT WEIRD. Get IT?
And I don't pay any attention to people with amateur weather stations, met O figs only. Amateur stations are never set up properly or WMO certified equipment and always read 1 or more degrees to high.
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OK you have a fair point, please prove why this is a nothing summer, esp as you live in London.
Also John Holmes has already asked you prove that the south east has had a nothing summer.
We await with interest, as rainfall has been well below average and temps have been well above average.
Temps have not been "well above average" except on the 1st July. In fact most of June had very cool nights. The CET for July also came in below average. It has been an entirely normal summer. As with rain, the east of England can be very dry, nothing weird about that. Anybody can take a look at the met office anomaly charts and see the temperatures have been entirely normal.
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Could do with the rain. Let's hope it comes in the form of thunderstorms.
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as often is the case two posts that make one wonder how it can be so.
Eugene west Midlands and mushy east Midlands
here Doncaster, most of us are never quite sure which geographical location we belong in but for facts
Since June 1st, the start of official summer there has been 46 days of 20C or more and 15 days of 25C or more.
1 June to 7 August=68 days I think.
make of it what you will.
There's been a big east/west temperature gradient across the country no.1, and no.2 difference people feel the same conditions differently anyway. I would suggest though that anybody who has found this perfectly normal british summer too "humid" and uncomfortable is living in the wrong climate and really needs to think about relocating to Iceland or northern Norway. Seriously. Some poeple have to live in places like Singapore or Brazil, thats "Humidity".
Some of the trollish comments I see from certain members on here are rather akin to somebody living in Kuwait City exclaiming "It's been a bit on the chilly side this summer" when it failed to hit 50°C all July...
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Probably about a 5, not too bothered if it doesn't snow much. Can take it or leave it.
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Am I too late to add my guess. I will guess for 17°C. Some late warmth maybe.
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Who want to have a barbecue in the first place? ;-)
I like 'em. Like to sit outside and eat in different surroundings than indoors. Also I love burgers, sausages and all that good stuff. And cool refreshing cider (or another drink of your choice) out of doors on a warm balmy evening.
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To be honest, yes. Nowhere even got close to 40C at the start of July. You want to make sure that your weather sensor is out of direct sunlight for as long as possible.
OK thanks. I no it reached 37 at heathrow so i guess 3 degrees higher is 2 much. Well I will try and make a stevenson screen (but my carpentry skills are pretty crap tbh)
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Monthly stats for my town in July.
Can you help me tell me if my weather station could be set up better. I think it might be overexposed.
Max temp: 40.1°C on 1st
Min temp: 6.4°C on 31st.
Avg max: 24.9°C
Average low: 12.7°C
Thunder days: 7 (we were in the only location to get every single thunderstorm event this month).
Rain:69mm
SunL 190 hours
Overall it was really hot for the first half, and more average for the second half.
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Well maybe, but who wants to sit outside at 7PM with the barbecue in september, when you can't see anything because the sun has set?
The changing daylight hours thread
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I agree. It does that to me too. it isn't ridiculous at all. It's related to hormonal activity in some people. So those who criticise us and say that it's just being silly to get a bit low in mood when the dark season arrives need to learn a thing or two about how the brain works.