Nick L

And those who deny the climate is warming can't even trot out the gormless line of "it's called summer!".

As expected, warmer than average, slightly sunnier than average and around average rainfall around here. Not too shabby.

A passable summer overall in my eyes. June was excellent, with weeks of very warm sunshine but never really uncomfortable. July was dreadful. August has been alright. One big downer for me is the lack of decent thunderstorms, although it wasn't completely devoid of them like some recent hot summers. Edit: I think reasonable was over-egging the optimism.

Quite possibly the best week of weather since June.

Want to add something constructive to your reply or just that childish retort? We get huge variations in light levels and nature from one season to the next and I personally believe we're lucky. I would hate to live somewhere where it's the same throughout the year.

Lovely day with a hint of Autumn.

I believe there's smoke drifting in from Canada.

Bring on September warmth I say. It takes a hell of a lot for warmth to be unpleasant in September, and with the long nights it means it actually cools down that bit more. Lovely month. And all the feral kids are back in prison school

Not easy to publicly apologise so thank you. The two months definitely cancelled each other out. I do wonder how public perception would have changed if June and July were swapped.

Can we please keep Covid talk to the (for some reason, still active) Covid threads? Most of us just want to talk about the weather.

It's been a great summer for avoiding unpleasant heat. June was superb for the most part, rarely got uncomfortable. Having numerous days of widespread 30C+ in this country is not the norm and it's nice to have a more normal summer. The Autumnal feeling is now creeping in and I'm all for it. We're lucky to have such defined seasons.

That's why it does my head in seeing people waste water on lawns after a few weeks of hot weather!

15/30? At the risk of infuriating some, an overall average summer!

Danm has pretty much explained but yeah, the sun angle at this time of year is the equivalent of what it would be on 20th April. People often get caught out with the sun strength in April, I easily burn at that time of year!

Sun is the same strength today as it would be on 20th April. Impressive how quickly the intensity drops off at this time of year.

This has to be a perfect summer's day. Shame I'm stuck in an office!

Take waterproofs. Won't be a washout but there will be heavy showers around for much of the weekend.

Bit unnecessary. I find these historic threads interesting and many of us appreciate the efforts.

Both EC and UKV have it clearing nicely for all areas roughly south of a line from Bristol to Peterborough. I do feel for those in Wales over the last week with how nice it's been further SE.

Today is a great example of why I love warm spells in late August/into September. You can easily get very pleasant days, but the sun is less strong and the mornings tend to be fresh. Plus there isn't sunlight streaming in through the curtains before 5am!

23.8C max here today, not quite the 23.9C of yesterday though.

Slightly depressing thought is that this is looking like the last week of widespread mid-20s for a while, perhaps for the rest of the year. Looking like returning to, at best, average temps after this warm spell for the foreseeable.

Yeah for E and SE England it was less bad than elsewhere for sure, but the deluge elsewhere wasn't just confined to the NW: And agreed regarding the 30C days. That's exactly the point many of us are trying to make. It never used to be the norm that we would be guaranteed multiple 30C days each summer, it used to be pretty noteworthy but the goalposts have shifted so far in the last 10 years or so that it may as well be a different sport altogether. 35C has become the new 30C in recent years for being the benchmark of noteworthy warmth.

Probably true to some extent. I'm a shift worker so I don't really have much to do with weekends a lot of the time.

It's a summer chat thread, it's a perfectly acceptable post. If you think it's worth reporting, you know where the button is. Otherwise, let's cut out the gatekeeping.