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I agree with you there. Summer should have warm days and cool nights combination spells. Sadly due to do global warming these warm days n' cool nights combos are getting much rarer and we get warming all around the clock more often now...

I think even August is too premature to say summer is over especially with Anthrogenic Global Warming sniffing around these days. Remember last year? After last years mere mild August came the warmest September on record which was even warmer then August 2006. Indeed September 2006 was the second hottest month of 2006 behind only July 2006. September 2006 also marked the start of an "Indian Summer" that hasn't really ended since. Every month from September 2006 and onward has been above the 1971-2000 C.E.T average. Also every month from April 2006 and onward has been above the 1961-1990 C.E.T average.

What has happened to the May C.E.T thread? I clicked on the link but all I got was a "Board Error Message".

The lengthening nights will still feel uncomfortably muggy like last year.

This weather isn't really gorgeous at all to the Polar Bears. It's killin' 'em! :blush:

If todays warm spell sets the scene for this June than I think it is safe to say that Britain is "Into the frying pan and into the fire" as rock singer Meat Loaf would say.

Does anyone think May 2007 will have a cooler second half than the first half outcome despite the warm spell earlier in the week before the Bank Holiday?

That warm spell in southeastern Britain at the very end of May 1996 would become June 1996's most extreme early June heatwave since June 1976. http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/19...00119960531.gif http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/19...00119960601.gif http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/19...00119960602.gif http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/19...00119960603.gif http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/19...00119960604.gif http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/19...00119960605.gif http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/19...00119960606.gif http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/19...00119960607.gif

Yeah May 1995 and May 1996 are close runners ups in my list too. I think May 1995 is often underrated as a month for producing cold weather. May 1995 had everything from heatwaves to cold days and more variety.

We were "lucky" to get this cold spell (if a little brief). It almost never happened. On Sunday 20th May 2007 Countryfile were predicting a Southerly heatwave to come to Britain from the continent. "Luckily", however Countryfile overestimated (for once) the strength of the warm front (and Thermal Ridge) over southern Britain and underestimated the strength of the cold front (and deep low) which was originally positioned to the southeast of Iceland. If that heatwave did happen it would have given us the second warmest May on record if it persisted to the end of the month. That "heatwave" could have been frightening.

I KNOW that!! I was just comparing November statistics and descriptions from http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~taharley...in_November.htm since 1899 and decided that the closest thing to November 1919 was November 1993 in recent years. No November since 1993 has come close to November 1993 let alone November 1919.

I agree with most of what you say. However I would keep the low humidities all summer long. I hate those subtropical 10C and above nights.

January 1997 reason - Not an exceptionally cool month but a very sunny and the closest we will ever get to January 1987 in terms of frostiness. February 1996 reason - Not an 1960s Asian Ice Age month by any means but a very snowy one and I would settle for this any day over the likes of February 1998. March 1995 reason - For a SPRING month this has to be one of the coolest Westerly Spring months I can think of. In addition to that godsend - the thundersnow and some Cold Zonality - there was also a rockin' mixture of sunshine and showers. Both sunshine and showers were above average!! April 1998 reason - Not a full blown Beasterly as there have indeed been colder Southeasterly Aprils such as April 1966 and April 1986. However April 1998 was the last time Britain experienced a "white Easter" and April 1998 is on par with April 2001 to be the coolest April of recent doomsday times. May 1997 reason - In this rockin' roller coaster of a temperature ride London saw both 28C heat and sub 10C cold in this month of May 1997. Snow also blocked the A55 in North Wales in May 1997. June 1991 reason - The second coldest June of the last century. More of this please. July 1993 reason - On the 9th of July a cold front from the Arctic caused the breakdown of a Thermal Ridge which crashed the temperature in Whipsnade, London from a morning HIGH of 16C to a low 7.5C AT midday! B) July 1993 was also the coldest June of recent times. August 1993 reason - The coldest August of recent times. Nothing has come close to it since. It was surprisingly cool despite sunshine and transitional Maritime Tropical Westerlies. September 1996 reason - An exactly 1960-1991 C.E.T average September with pleasant sunshine and a surprising east-west contrast in temperatures. Hence the west of Britain was slightly warmer than average and the east of Britain was slightly cooler than average. October 1993 reason - The coldest October since 1974 and needless to say was the best I could hope for. When the Greenland High got going there some very beautiful crisp, cool nights and crisp, cool and sunny afternoons. November 1993 reason - This is the November I long for the most. It is up there with November 1919. Very cool conditions mid-late month which would certainly rival many of our pathetic shots at cold in our more recent "winters". December 1995 reason - My brothers first Christmas and a white one at that! Christmas 1995 was great. Not even Christmases 1996, 2001 and 2004 could top it. Also the coldest December since 1981 and Altnaharra, Sutherland equaled the record low of -27C on the 30th December 1995. B) Whilst not exceptionally cold I would like some more of this please any day over December 2006 and 1997 but I don't think we will see it's like ever again...

Thankyou Mr_Data It is amazing that the second coldest May in the last 107 years (May 1996) was fairly dry.

How wet were the cold Mays of 1902, 1996 and 1816?

Most of the "Northerlies" this May were simply transitional Northerlies as well as Westerlies and a Southerly in southern Britain rather than true Northerlies from the North Pole.

*Drum roll* I am going for the warmest June on record of 19C C.E.T. This will be the warmest June since the record breaking June of 1846.

It's ironic isn't it? It is so warm in Britain because there isn't a warm anomaly in the western temperate North Pacific Ocean.

It is remarkable how cool August 1993 was. There was almost no modified Arctic Northwesterly airmasses and yet the month was a good 1C below average. In fact the prevailing winds were transitory maritime tropical westerly airmasses and sunshine!

Thirteens to fourteens? Another very warm month. I hate this new climate. I am going to Mars...

Oh no. Not more of those again!!

Another El Nino? Oh no! Not again...

1. That last reply was partly just a bit of sarcasm there. Indeed I WISH IT REALLY WAS COLD. 2. However with that last reply I was also agreeing with Grey Wolf's theory that people begin to feel "cool" even when temperatures are just slightly less warm if they have become acclimatized to extreme heat. In other words some people become "habitualised" to extreme heat as Grey Wolfy called it. But I am not one of them. Believe you me I HATE HEAT!! HA! HA! STOP GLOBAL WARMING!

I agree with you there Grey Wolf. So far May 2007 is a bit like August 2006 in that it feels "cold" simply because it is not exceptionally warm or cold after a previous and recent very warm spell. Is this the new definition of cold?

I few computers from the climatepredication.net forcasted a 11C temperature rise outlier.