Summer 2022 Chat

[reef]

7 minutes ago, danm said:

The rain moving east down south is totally breaking up and fizzling out. Not expecting anything more than a light shower or a few spots of rain now. May end up getting nothing. 

The story of the summer! We were forecast a max of 21C and heavy rain showers, instead we had one shower mid-morning which gave just 0.2mm and now its sunny and up to 25.9C! 

We've had a total of 7.8mm so far this month as everything has missed us.

[stainesbloke]

A wet day here and feeling quite autumnal at 16°C. 

[NTC]

35 minutes ago, reef said:

The story of the summer! We were forecast a max of 21C and heavy rain showers, instead we had one shower mid-morning which gave just 0.2mm and now its sunny and up to 25.9C! 

We've had a total of 7.8mm so far this month as everything has missed us.

Becareful what you wish for:

 

Edited August 22, 2022 by NTC

[reef]

We could do with the rain, but will it get here without dying out I wonder?

[summer blizzard]

23 minutes ago, Sunny76 said:

2018 was still decent I think. 

Here in Leeds I don't consider this summer in the same league as 2018 or 1995 or 2006. It's a second tier summer comparable to 2013 (indeed the July hot spell actually lasted longer than the August hot spell this month). It's essentially a summer of two halves. A good but completely unexceptional first half then a 4/5 second half.

[danm]

3 hours ago, reef said:

The story of the summer! We were forecast a max of 21C and heavy rain showers, instead we had one shower mid-morning which gave just 0.2mm and now its sunny and up to 25.9C! 

We've had a total of 7.8mm so far this month as everything has missed us.

3 hours after my post, and looking at the radar the rain has almost completely fizzled out. 

[reef]

3 minutes ago, danm said:

3 hours after my post, and looking at the radar the rain has almost completely fizzled out. 

Yes, as expected, the band to the north has become light and patchy too. We're under it now, but its still actually dry. We'll be lucky to get anything from it.

[damianslaw]

One thing this summer has delivered which many recent ones hasn't at least to same extent, is the hottest most settled weather coincided perfectly with high summer i.e. mid July to mid August. The remaining period i.e first half and second half Aug despite some settled weather on the cards has here at least been very average. 2003 did something very similiar. 

[danm]

Not a drop of rain today. The band totally disintegrated.

[stainesbloke]

So much rain here in Prague over the last 3 days. Warnings are out about flooding and it’s certainly felt autumnal, with maximum temperatures of around 17°C each day. Quite a nice change from all the hot weather but hopefully it won’t go on too much longer. 

[Earthshine]

 

[kold weather]

Thats an amazing night time temperature, 26.8c would be a respectable max even in somewhere like London during the summer, to have it as a min is crazy high. Beats the old record by nearly 3c!

[Earthshine]

11 minutes ago, kold weather said:

Thats an amazing night time temperature, 26.8c would be a respectable max even in somewhere like London during the summer, to have it as a min is crazy high. Beats the old record by nearly 3c!

First 80F night.  Wonder when we'll get the first 90F night.

[MP-R]

The weather has essentially faffed about since the end of the heatwave here - never overly unsettled (apart from a thundery shower last week) but never fully settled either. If it's not going to rain properly, it may as well be sunny at least!

[mb018538]

Just another beautiful day here. 27c and sunny spells. The never ending summer down here.

[danm]

1 minute ago, mb018538 said:

Just another beautiful day here. 27c and sunny spells. The never ending summer down here.

Yep another nice day, warm with sunny spells. More cloud has just started to roll in though. 

[Freeze]

21c here with a 20c dp. This is what a muggy day truly feels like. 

[Mapantz]

Overcast and 20°C here.

[Mapantz]

2 hours ago, kold weather said:

Thats an amazing night time temperature, 26.8c would be a respectable max even in somewhere like London during the summer, to have it as a min is crazy high. Beats the old record by nearly 3c!

That's 2°C higher than my highest daily average lol

[danm]

Very warm, humid day with sunny spells. 26°c.

[MP-R]

Managed some sunny spells again today, so like Sunday, hit 25 degrees. Still warm out at 20 degrees.

[Cheshire Freeze]

Summer is into its final week now so it's now possible to appraise it.

A bit of a weird one really...a very dry summer yet 2018 sticks in the memory more. I barely saw a raindrop between the May and end of July that year. The length of the dry spell up here was remarkable and completely encompassed the period of the year where the sun was at its strongest. There was no moisture left in the ground...it was a dust bowl and all vegetation was pretty much scorched off.

This year however knocks 2018 out of the park temperature wise.

Another thing to point out is that I've not heard one rumble of thunder this summer. That is pretty much unfathomable. Very very poor. So was 2018 though. Any time you have such a dominant Azores HP you're going to struggle for thunder chances.

Edited August 23, 2022 by CreweCold

[Mark Smithy]

So the Met Office have just confirmed that 26.8C recorded at  Shirburn model farm on 19th July 2022 is the highest minimum temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom.

 

Not entirely sure why it took a month to verify but anyway.

[mb018538]

10 hours ago, CreweCold said:

Summer is into its final week now so it's now possible to appraise it.

A bit of a weird one really...a very dry summer yet 2018 sticks in the memory more. I barely saw a raindrop between the May and end of July that year. The length of the dry spell up here was remarkable and completely encompassed the period of the year where the sun was at its strongest. There was no moisture left in the ground...it was a dust bowl and all vegetation was pretty much scorched off.

This year however knocks 2018 out of the park temperature wise.

Another thing to point out is that I've not heard one rumble of thunder this summer. That is pretty much unfathomable. Very very poor. So was 2018 though. Any time you have such a dominant Azores HP you're going to struggle for thunder chances.

Simply phenomenal. Didn't think I'd see another 2018 style summer 4 years later, but here we are. There isn't really much between them now that August has been so good too. To have the August CET running at 19.1c (+3.4c) with a week left has just capped an amazing summer. The June CET was kept down a bit by cooler nights, but the daytime maxima were still very good. July a belter as we all know.

This year also had the madness (and what was probably the most exciting spell of model watching I've ever seen for 2 weeks in early July) of the 40.3c day on the 19th July. Not even in the SE corner either, but up in Lincolnshire. We kept on seeing those 40-43c charts appearing 10-14 days out. Surely they weren't going to happen? It got closer. They kept appearing. We all thought it'd probably disppear.....it didn't. It happened. Now, we've just had an update to say that the UK record minimum now stands at a mind boggling 26.8c at Shirburn, Oxfordshire. To smash that long standing record by 3c is just mental.

We just have to have a re-think on what is possible. I reckon the 40.3c is very much beatable. It was very windy on the 19th July (an odd experience at 40c), if it were calm and the air less mixed, then we could have seen something more like the 41-42c that the UKV was showing even on the day.

Heck knows what the globe will look like under a strong El-Nino event. La Nina is meant to be the cooler of the two, and we've seen much of Europe and Asia (China especially) suffer the worst heat/droughts in recorded history.

 

[Row w]

Well the BBC definitely overcooked the forecast for rain amounts today, was supposed to be rain from early this morning through to evening time (amounts were subject to change) but instead its starting to break here with the sun coming out although that'll be good for any storm activity today supposed to be some thundery showers this afternoon