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  1. Today is a reminder of the many cold, grey and windy ('orrible) mornings to come between now and next summer, so it would seem. 🥶

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    Today is a reminder of the many cold, grey and windy ('orrible) mornings to come between now and next summer, so it would seem. 🥶

    On the other hand, here's hoping to a sunnier than average autumn, winter and spring ☀️😊

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  2. 8 minutes ago, stainesbloke said:

    Yep, just 15°C today with damp, overcast skies, it’s rancid. Need another month of warm sunshine and then I’ll be ready for autumn 😂 

    Yes, it is crap today, solid grey ceiling and cool-feeling.

    Hopefully there will be some of that warm sunshine in September!

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  3. 3 minutes ago, Metwatch said:

    Had a blood red sunset last night, due to the wildfire smoke from the fires all the way in Canada. Birmingham can be spotted in the distance. 

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    I did notice the haze on the satellite when I saw it yesterday. Nice photo!

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  4. 17 minutes ago, stainesbloke said:

    Moan away. Loads of irritating cloudy muck on satellite, though the SE looks better. Currently 24°C at Heathrow, so it must be feeling pleasant 

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    It is feeling pleasant here! I'm making the most of the sunlight and lack of wind-chill before the muck drifts over here.

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  5. 1 hour ago, In Absence of True Seasons said:

    Absolutely dross day today. Gone from showers tonight to now drizzle / rain basically the whole day. And chilly too. This is the second time in a month that plans with my girlfriend have been ruined due to the weather. The last was Saturday 22nd July, that day of 15c max and about 16 hours straight of rain. She doesn't live in London at the moment so specifically takes time out to visit. It's just so typical that this happens, when we have outdoors plans. 

    No amounts of maps and graphs change the experience of actually living in this country's summer climate when it's like this. It's just frustrating as f.

    100% with you. Boring drizzle with no sense of mugginess at all, it just feels like damp autumnal chill. I'll believe we have anything more than moderate rain when I see it! This one thing that I dislike about London, at least in Manchester there are several heavy falls of rain scattered here and there throughout the summer, down here, it's just soulless, anaemic drizzle in most cases.

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  6. Blobby clouds here too, but they are more towering and tropical looking today than the usual flattened mounds of misery that we usually get. Summertime cumulonimbus or towering cumulus are acceptable in my books because it's a sign of true summer-like heat. Whereas the flattened dross that we usually get here is a sign of a LACK of true summer-like heat

    The lack of wind combined with the chirping grasshoppers in my garden feels very respectable in the sunny breaks... More of this or no clouds at all please.

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  7. Going to sleep covered in a sheet and no duvet as it was slightly mild and I was feeling a bit warm, I am surprised to wake up to condensation on the windows and dew on the grass in what is statistically the part of the year with the warmest nights on average!

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  8. Another watery day here in WaterWorld London. If there's one benefit to this frequent rain.. It washes a lot of the horrible burning smells out of the air that I get in my area quite often. Also the grass is now bright green, which isn't usually the case at this time of year here.

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  9. 3 minutes ago, SunSean said:

    Oh yeah, same. If I could move anywhere, it would be Faro in Portugal. Also agree that average is poor. Whoever remembers an average month lol. The UK climate sometimes teases you that it's not too bad like Spring 2020, Summer 2018 & 2022 but then you get periods like this which just remind you that it's mostly dross with a few memorable sprinkles of good weather every so often.

    I love Faro! Especially the coastal barrier islands that you can see from the plane as you land! I believe that's also one of the sunnier locations of Iberia too on average, coastal SW Andalusia and SE Algarve

  10. 17 minutes ago, SunSean said:

    I'm still amazed at the amount of people saying this has been an alright July and bang on average. Who cares about the temperatures or low rainfall when the sky looks like this all the time! Absolutely rubbish July, no defending it.

    Average = poor to me. I simply do not like the climate here and never have, even as a child. 23c in summer, (for those who are acclimatised) is only warm if the sun is out and there is little to no wind, which is often not the case. otherwise it feels tepid or chilly to me. Knowing that so many other areas of the world (including at the same latitudes as Britain) experience consistent, genuine summer heat and sun, and we are just about scraping the low 20s and (what feels like) perpetual grey skies never ceases to disappoint me! I would love to move, but I simply do not have the means to do so.

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  11. Some rather pretty looking early convective clouds this morning. Typical for being in a col, which can make for some interesting skies. Not the ugly, flat grey stratiform clouds of when the pressure is either too high or too low. Shame about the autumnal temperatures though. Fingers crossed that August delivers at least one heat spike.

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