Summer past.

[Phoenixknight]

Is it just me or are summer's getting colder and wetter in the North.
I watch the national weather forecast and it tells me how nice our summer is.....if you are below Birmingham on the map.
I can't remember when we last had couple of weeks of warm sunshine.
Can't just be me that gets really fed up with the lack of nice weather.

[ClaretTony]

Strange summer - we've had some really good days and some downright awful days but not had a run of either. It seems it almost switched every day or two

[NottsClaret]

Check the stats, it's almost certainly warmer.

[Phoenixknight]

It's only warmer if you take an average over the 12 month period.
Winters are getting warmer so more rain and less snow but summer's feel that they are getting colder and wetter.
It would be interesting to get an average for June, July, August and Sept for the last 50 years. I am not a gambling man but I would put money on our summer's getting progressively worse.
Is it something else I can blame on our politicians ???

[Firthy]

The seasons are evening out over here on the island. Less sun and not as hot in the summer but less snow and not as cold in the winter. Rain all year round.

[Phoenixknight]

It does feel like we are going through some sort of change with the weather....however this has happened throughout history, just gets you a bit fed up.
I'll put the bbq back in the shed for another summer.

[dsr]

It's variable. In the 1970's summers were hotter; in the 1990's and early 2000's, hotter still. In the 1940's and 1950's and 1910's, wetter and colder than they are now.

One year in the early fifties, Colne had 15 home games scheduled, and 7 were abandoned without a ball bowled and 2 more didn't reach the second innings.

[Sidney1st]

Its not much better here in the south.

Glorious sunshine one day and it could be chucking it down the next day...

[Phoenixknight]

It is weird.
I have kids that live on the south coast and talk to them a couple of times a week.
Every time we natter it is either glorious and hot or thunder and lightning.
Yet with us it is overcast with rain and drizzle ...always.

[KateR]

going to Scotland Thursday for the weekend, pack your swimsuit he says!! I checked the weather and maybe he meant for the rain rather than actual swimming, but am looking forward to getting away to somewhere I have never been (don't mean Scotland, have been there before)

[HiroshimaClaret]

As my Grandma Smith used to say, "don`t be so bloody mard!".

Enjoy the variety and lack of incessant heat. Here in Hiroshima it is averaging out in the mid 30s and will do for the next 2 months. Humidity is a killer too at around 70-80%.

Even here though the weather patterns have apparently changed...20 years ago the summer maximum was 30oC.

[ŽižkovClaret]

Bloody baking here. 35c today

[tim_noone]

That's why I ease of outside painting in June July always p!ssing down!september and October are much drier.

[ablueclaret]

Actually we tend to get weather in batches, long periods of dry, long periods of wet, July and August are notoriously fickle months, for decent weather May June and September are better.