Summer Here? (Warm Spell Discussion)

[Cloudwatcher]

Nah it's gone back in

22.7C.

Bet we have a nice clear evening. Been nice evenings past few nights.

Bet we have a nice clear evening. Been nice evenings past few nights.

Feeling muggy here though. Not the most comfortable of days.

[Evening thunder]

Seems we have a sea breeze now, which is a bit annoying as I wanted to record an as hot temp as possible on the one day without a onshore breeze. A station on a nearby part of the coast doesn't have one yet though, and is 25.9C there..

26.0C here but may drop now if the sea breeze picks up.

[Backtrack]

Bet we have a nice clear evening. Been nice evenings past few nights.

Feeling muggy here though. Not the most comfortable of days.

I've noticed the cloud always clears off at night, only to roll back in around dinner time, very, very annoying!

Sun keeps appearing here, although it's not going to be that hot today I don't think. Just approaching 23C now, clear tonight, just watch.

[Cloudwatcher]

I've noticed the cloud always clears off at night, only to roll back in around dinner time, very, very annoying!

Sun keeps appearing here, although it's not going to be that hot today I don't think. Just approaching 23C now, clear tonight, just watch.

Yeah, until today we had a pattern of fantastic weather in the morning, dull and overcast afternoons and clear as a bell evenings. Today just started overcast and the cloud just hasn't shifted much at all.

[Bottesford]

It's that decaying front causing all the cloud problems... Here it is breaking up a bit but feels much more humid than yesterday.24c bang on at the mo.

[Backtrack]

Yeah, until today we had a pattern of fantastic weather in the morning, dull and overcast afternoons and clear as a bell evenings. Today just started overcast and the cloud just hasn't shifted much at all.

I think as it's weakening, the sun will tend to burn some of the cloud off in the next couple of hours. It'll be clear around 4 I reckon.

[Backtrack]

Thought so, blue sky now appearing. Sun burning off the low cloud nicely.

Up to 23.8C now, turning out to be another hot one with 2.5 hours of peak heating left!

Edited July 25, 2012 by Backtrack

[Coast]

Looks like Gravesend at 27.7 °C is just behind Heathrow at 27.8 °C currently. I bet all the athletes and visitors to the UK coming through our busiest airport into car parks/buses, must wonder what all those weather headlines were all about for the last 4 months!!

I hope it wont slow our Gold Medal hopefuls down!!!

[Scorcher]

30C already at St James Park, 32C possible in London?? 29.6C to be exact!

Edited July 25, 2012 by Scorcher

[Alex]

St James Park London 29.6c at 13:00 according to meteo weather.

[Cloudwatcher]

Thought so, blue sky now appearing. Sun burning off the low cloud nicely.

Up to 23.8C now, turning out to be another hot one with 2.5 hours of peak heating left!

No blue as of yet for us, but the sun is definitely getting stronger through the cloud. Clear by 5pm here I reckon.

[Coast]

I know these aren't official Met Office stations, but their Invent map shows temps well in excess of 32°C currently in a number of places, typically:

http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/

There are a couple around London that must be spurious!!!

[Radiating Dendrite]

I know these aren't official Met Office stations, but their Invent map shows temps well in excess of 32°C currently in a number of places, typically:

http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/

There are a couple around London that must be spurious!!!

Either that or they are located in an oven!

43c near Gravesend!

Edited July 25, 2012 by Polar Attack

[Coast]

Either that or they are located in their oven!

43c near Gravesend!

I reckon you could take your pick of places around there at that temperature this afternoon:

http://www.yell.com/s/tanning-gravesend.html

[reef]

Today hasnt turned out to be such a bad day, after the cloud earlier on it has now turned sunny like yesterday. The only difference is that its 20.1C instead of 27.3C yesterday and theres a light north-easterly breeze.

[Lake District Blizzard]

Finally, skies cleared this end of the Lake District, sunny all day, currently 23.1c, think the southern end of the Lakes has held onto the cloud, as a wall of cloud has been lingering over the fells all day

[Bottesford]

Gladly cloud has been well broken but feels very humid indeed.

24.8c the max.

[sunny scunny]

Still cloudy here and 21c.Unbroken sunshine all afternoon around 15 miles away to my east.

[Sainsbo]

Station in my town recorded 30.2C - Theb highest since 1st July 2009 here! Tomorrow may even break that.

[Summer Sun]

Today's offical UK hot spot is 30.5°C in both Charlwood and St James's Park

Edited July 25, 2012 by Summer Sun

[Richard2901]

Too far north to get in on the party when there's heat around, but no doubt I won't be far enough north to escape the southerly tracking jet.

Exactly the same here. I don't know what it would actually take to get decent summer weather here any more.

Certainly no sign of summer here this week. It's been another week of unbearable cloudy rubbish that does nothing to alleviate the chronic lack of sunshine over the past 8 weeks. I have now endured 25 mostly cloudy/overcast days in a row. It's incredulous.

Only 2 days have been warmer than average here in the past week: 20.8C on Sunday and 21.0C yesterday, both of which managed only 3 hours of sun, while today has been the only completely dry day (so far).

Sunshine total for July currently stands at a staggeringly awful 44.8 hours. We need to start seeing brilliantly sunny days with 10hr+ sun to avoid this being the worst "summer" month ever recorded (in over 130 years) and that doesn't look like happening. Not one day so far has even managed 6 hours of sunshine. This is not summer. It is a living hell.

Thankfully I'm off to the Costa Brava for a fortnight soon so will get a respite from the torture of having to suffer grey skies day in day out. It has made me feel ill, fed up and sick to the stomach and I just wish I was able to leave for good because something has gone drastically wrong for the conditions being endured this summer to even be possible

[Weather-history]

Exactly the same here. I don't know what it would actually take to get decent summer weather here any more.

Certainly no sign of summer here this week. It's been another week of unbearable cloudy rubbish that does nothing to alleviate the chronic lack of sunshine over the past 8 weeks. I have now endured 25 mostly cloudy/overcast days in a row. It's incredulous.

Only 2 days have been warmer than average here in the past week: 20.8C on Sunday and 21.0C yesterday, both of which managed only 3 hours of sun, while today has been the only completely dry day (so far).

Sunshine total for July currently stands at a staggeringly awful 44.8 hours. We need to start seeing brilliantly sunny days with 10hr+ sun to avoid this being the worst "summer" month ever recorded (in over 130 years) and that doesn't look like happening. Not one day so far has even managed 6 hours of sunshine. This is not summer. It is a living hell.

Thankfully I'm off to the Costa Brava for a fortnight soon so will get a respite from the torture of having to suffer grey skies day in day out. It has made me feel ill, fed up and sick to the stomach and I just wish I was able to leave for good because something has gone drastically wrong for the conditions being endured this summer to even be possible

Lol Richard. You have been making these type of posts for many months on TWO. Surely, you have become adapted to the Aberdeen climate? So a dull day is infact average?

[Eugene]

Big change to the feel of the weather by the weekend, as you can see on these ensembles 850 hPa temps take a pretty big dip to well below average.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_London_ens.png

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_Manchester_ens.png

[Supercell 89]

Hottest day for six years today as we finally broke the 80F barrier. High of 27c today Last time it reached 27c here was July 2006

[AWD]

Big change to the feel of the weather by the weekend, as you can see on these ensembles 850 hPa temps take a pretty big dip to well below average.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_London_ens.png

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_Manchester_ens.png

Interestingly though, they are quickly in the rise again as we progress through August, and also becoming a little drier in the latter timeframe.