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  • Location: Irlam
  • Location: Irlam

Something that hot lovers and thunderstorms lovers will be hoping to see more of this summer than they have seen of the last two summers and old fashioned hot thundery breakdown!

1st August 1999 was a scorcher here but during the afternoon noticed cloud building to the west and it went bang in the later part of the afternoon.

http://youtu.be/pMkiJk5HsyE

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District. 290 mts a.s.l.
  • Weather Preferences: Anything extreme
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District. 290 mts a.s.l.

As far as the thunder goes that day was a bit of a non event here. It was certainly hot, the maximum was 26.9c, but there was only distant thunder heard during the early evening and a short shower gave 0.8 mm of rain.

The 2nd was even hotter with a max' of 27.2c, thereafter it remained warm until the 6th but the warm weather ended abruptly on the 7th with a max' of 14.7c.

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  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Anything but mild south-westeries in winter
  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl

A few miles further east and yeah

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  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Anything but mild south-westeries in winter
  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl

Ahh the days when August was actually a summer month.

It was? :shok:

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  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, convective precipitation, snow, thunderstorms, "episodic" months.
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire

The summer quarter of 1999 wasn't statistically remarkable temperature, sunshine or rainfall wise- the notably warm dry sunny July was partially offset by a fairly cool June and a wet and fairly cloudy August with average temperatures. But it was certainly a notable summer from a convective point of view- August was the most thundery month over England & Wales as a whole since May 1983 (though subsequently beaten by August 2004), and June and July also had some notable convective events (26th/27th June and 3rd-6th July stick out). There was a tornado just to the west of Cleadon at 8:30am on the 22nd June, and funnel clouds were unusually common overall during the summer. The heatwave at the end of July and beginning of August marked the transition from mostly anticyclonic conditions to mostly wet and thundery conditions.

As a couple of others mentioned it was a long summer, as the first half of September 1999 was hot, sunny and dry in most places and then the second half of September 1999 had frequent thundery downpours- stats from Weather Log suggest that it was the most thundery September of the past 20 years.

Thus opinions of Summer 1999 will probably vary depending on how much relative importance you place on warm dry sunny weather vs. convection/thunderstorms, but it certainly joins 1996 and 2005 in being generally under-rated.

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  • Location: Portland, Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: Mixed winters and springs, thundery summers and meditteranean autumns
  • Location: Portland, Dorset

The summer quarter of 1999 wasn't statistically remarkable temperature, sunshine or rainfall wise- the notably warm dry sunny July was partially offset by a fairly cool June and a wet and fairly cloudy August with average temperatures. But it was certainly a notable summer from a convective point of view- August was the most thundery month over England & Wales as a whole since May 1983 (though subsequently beaten by August 2004), and June and July also had some notable convective events (26th/27th June and 3rd-6th July stick out). There was a tornado just to the west of Cleadon at 8:30am on the 22nd June, and funnel clouds were unusually common overall during the summer. The heatwave at the end of July and beginning of August marked the transition from mostly anticyclonic conditions to mostly wet and thundery conditions.

As a couple of others mentioned it was a long summer, as the first half of September 1999 was hot, sunny and dry in most places and then the second half of September 1999 had frequent thundery downpours- stats from Weather Log suggest that it was the most thundery September of the past 20 years.

Thus opinions of Summer 1999 will probably vary depending on how much relative importance you place on warm dry sunny weather vs. convection/thunderstorms, but it certainly joins 1996 and 2005 in being generally under-rated.

The spring of 1999, (certainly in the Midlands) was also very good from a convective / thundery point of view; particularly early April, and the second half of May.

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