Summer 2022 Chat

[LetItSnow!]

Thunder woke me in the night with torrential rain and now general frontal rain seems to be over London and the SE. This is a Godsend, especially on top of the heavy rain we had on the 17th. August will definitely not go down as an exceptionally dry month here now after all, with torrential rain occuring on the 15th, 17th and now 25th. It's interesting how these days have all seen the rain fairly prolonged and not just a 2 minute downburst.

 

I also feel personally, when calculating the average rainfall for a month it could be some formula that takes into account rain days as well as the overall precipitation amount. As some have stated, heavy rain falling on 1-3 days in an otherwise bone dry month may give the impression of an average/slightly wetter than average month when really it's not entirely the case.

[kold weather]

31 minutes ago, Summer8906 said:

 

Was out of the country from the 17th but I'm surprised that a Hampshire station got just 60% rainfall in June.

Before I left, it was pretty changeable with frequent rain for the first 10 days of the month, before a warm and sunny 5 days from the 13th-17th.

But from what I gather the rest of the month was pretty changeable, except for a further brief fine spell from the 20th-22nd. So surprised June was so dry, what was it like from the 18th where you were?

Most of the SE was surprisingly dry:

Very few areas got as high as 75% rainfall down here, most parts were somewhere between 50-70%.

We did get some rain in the last full week but it wasn't too heavy, think we managed about 10mm or so from that week. The first week was pretty wet and thats where we had the most rain, just missed most of the rain the following week so was basically dry here from about the 6th through to that final week.

[mb018538]

Parts of Suffolk have now received 100mm+ since midnight! Kentford is 18 miles from here....we've received 13mm in the same period. The line of torrential downpours earlier this morning was running across Suffolk hence those massive totals. Just generic steady rain here, much needed though.

[OddSpot]

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Edited August 25, 2022 by OddSpot

[Snowy L]

25 minutes ago, mb018538 said:

Parts of Suffolk have now received 100mm+ since midnight! Kentford is 18 miles from here....we've received 13mm in the same period. The line of torrential downpours earlier this morning was running across Suffolk hence those massive totals. Just generic steady rain here, much needed though.

Here we go, damage undone as long as they don't wheel out the wrong rain excuse.

[LRD]

Frontal rain in the summer months (and May) is usually as welcome as a pork pie in a vegan's picnic but today is so refreshing here in Bedfordshire. Sweet rain. Just listening to it is great - I hope it's a sign of things to come for next month as the rest of August looks to be defaulting to dry again (not a complaint as it is a bank holiday weekend in some places, of course)

[LRD]

1 hour ago, LetItSnow! said:

Thunder woke me in the night with torrential rain and now general frontal rain seems to be over London and the SE. This is a Godsend, especially on top of the heavy rain we had on the 17th. August will definitely not go down as an exceptionally dry month here now after all, with torrential rain occuring on the 15th, 17th and now 25th. It's interesting how these days have all seen the rain fairly prolonged and not just a 2 minute downburst.

 

I also feel personally, when calculating the average rainfall for a month it could be some formula that takes into account rain days as well as the overall precipitation amount. As some have stated, heavy rain falling on 1-3 days in an otherwise bone dry month may give the impression of an average/slightly wetter than average month when really it's not entirely the case.

That's a good shout. The month is now going to look, by the usual measurement method, an average (or even wet!) month when it's obviously not been the case. Just because of 2 or 3 days of heavy rain. A classic case of stats being misleading

[mb018538]

17 minutes ago, LRD said:

That's a good shout. The month is now going to look, by the usual measurement method, an average (or even wet!) month when it's obviously not been the case. Just because of 2 or 3 days of heavy rain. A classic case of stats being misleading

Some areas will now likely have received their 3 month summer rainfall total over the space of about 3-4 days....crazy that maybe 80-85 days of summer have been dry and you could still be average. All or nothing.

[Weather Enthusiast91]

First proper rainy day here in what feels like an eternity.

You don't half really appreciate the rain when you haven't had much of it for a while.

[Stewart M]

8 minutes ago, Weather Enthusiast91 said:

First proper rainy day here in what feels like an eternity.

You don't half really appreciate the rain when you haven't had much of it for a while.

Raining here too which is good to see.  I must have a chuckle at the current Met Office forecast summary for my area though, which is "A cloudy start with a few spots of light rain and drizzle at first...".  It's currently throwing it down out there and has been for a while now.

[TwisterGirl81]

Beautiful clear skies in Devon and has been all morning, pleasant temperature of 74F, not humid like it has been for so long, feels almost cool.

Exeter average August precipitation is 61mm, we've barely had 20mm so far this August so we will be ending the month very dry as was the case for June and July, well pretty every month since the end of last year bar maybe February, glad those places in the south east got some most welcome rain though

What a lovely summer it's been, will be nice to enjoy autumn and winter, helps feeling that way when the summers been a good one 

Edited August 25, 2022 by TwisterGirl81

[mb018538]

1 hour ago, Weather Enthusiast91 said:

First proper rainy day here in what feels like an eternity.

You don't half really appreciate the rain when you haven't had much of it for a while.

Definitely. This is the first proper rainfall here since the first week of June. 3 months without it and seeing everything so arid, brown and dead has shown me that I really don't want to live in somewhere like California where it is riddled with extreme drought, heat and fires.

I love the summer and get frustrated when we get long unsettled spells, cool temperatures and little to no sunshine, but this year (along with 2018) has been a reminder that you can have too much of a good thing. For the most part the UK has the right blend as a temperate climate and we should be mainly thankful.

[MP-R]

57 minutes ago, TwisterGirl81 said:

Beautiful clear skies in Devon and has been all morning, pleasant temperature of 74F, not humid like it has been for so long, feels almost cool.

 

Send it here please. Dull as dishwater here, as it largely has been since the end of the heatwave.

[Nick L]

3 hours ago, mb018538 said:

Some areas will now likely have received their 3 month summer rainfall total over the space of about 3-4 days....crazy that maybe 80-85 days of summer have been dry and you could still be average. All or nothing.

Just more evidence that our climate is shifting from regular, reliable rainfall to long droughts and deluges.

[Mapantz]

Andrewsfield up to 183.6mm for today.  St James Park at 86mm.

[NTC]

23 minutes ago, Nick L said:

Just more evidence that our climate is shifting from regular, reliable rainfall to long droughts and deluges.

Oh come on its one year when we have a drought and one day of a deluge so things must be changing? What about every other year when weather does something you don't expect.

Did every summer have floods because 2007 had them?

[Nick L]

2 minutes ago, NTC said:

Oh come on its one year when we have a drought and one day of a deluge so things must be changing? What about every other year when weather does something you don't expect.

Did every summer have floods because 2007 had them?

It's not just this summer though. There have been plenty of instances in the last 10 years where we've gone weeks without rainfall and then one huge dump of rain brings us back up to the monthly average. 

And besides, our climate has changed rapidly in the last few decades. This is not up for debate, it's fact.

[NTC]

1 minute ago, Nick L said:

It's not just this summer though. There have been plenty of instances in the last 10 years where we've gone weeks without rainfall and then one huge dump of rain brings us back up to the monthly average. 

And besides, our climate has changed rapidly in the last few decades. This is not up for debate, it's fact.

Did the people of 1975 and 1976 go this is a change in climate or did they just think what a lovely summer lets hope it rains soon.

Mosy years had periods of dry weather for weeks nothing new.

[TwisterGirl81]

25 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

Andrewsfield up to 183.6mm for today.  St James Park at 86mm.

Wow, incredible!  Is that a record for 24 hours or even 12 hours?

Edited August 25, 2022 by TwisterGirl81

[Mapantz]

5 minutes ago, NTC said:

Did the people of 1975 and 1976 go this is a change in climate or did they just think what a lovely summer lets hope it rains soon.

They didn't have the advanced sciences that we have now, so there was less shared knowledge.

1 minute ago, TwisterGirl81 said:

Wow, incredible!  Is that a record for 24 hours or even 12 hours?

24 hour record is almost double that, 341mm.

[NTC]

3 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

They didn't have the advanced sciences that we have now, so there was less shared knowledge.

Or they just got on with their lives and didn't think every type of weather as an issue. Some years it floods 2007, some years is snows heavily 2009, some years it is dry and hot 2022. There is no need to turn every weather event into something to be concerned about.

Edited August 25, 2022 by NTC

[Mapantz]

3 minutes ago, NTC said:

Or they just got on with their lives and didn't intpret every type of weather as an issue. Some years it floods 2007, some years is snows heavily 2009, some years it is dry and hot 2022. There is no need to turn every weather event into something to be concerned about.

Or, a lack of understanding in climate science?

[NTC]

4 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

Or, a lack of understanding in climate science?

Or wanting every weather event to mean something bad when it doesn't. So it is dry and hot this summer so? Next summer might be cold and wet it's what happens.

[Nick L]

Just now, NTC said:

Or wanting every weather event to mean something bad when it doesn't. So it is dry and hot this summer so? Next summer might be cold and wet it's what happens.

If you really don't think hitting 40C so easily and smashing records by 2-3C isn't concerning then there's really no point discussing.

[carinthian]

30 minutes ago, NTC said:

Did the people of 1975 and 1976 go this is a change in climate or did they just think what a lovely summer lets hope it rains soon.

Mosy years had periods of dry weather for weeks nothing new.

Not sure Climate change or Global Warming was on peoples minds then. However, I think there was a growing interest with the British public in weather events and forecasts. As a result, in the 1960s/70s saw the advent of Weather Centres spring up in cities with a free service for all. I know the shop at The Manchester Weather Centre in St Annes Square was always packed with interested folk. At that time many had lived through the coldest ever winter 1963 and the hottest summer of the last century 1976 all in the time span of 13 years . 

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Edited August 25, 2022 by carinthian