Is the summer really good this year?

[marinyork]

April was insanely dry in many locations and very sunny.

Not looked at the May stats but very few grey days here. Very sunny, warm but not insane like Drago says. Perfect.

As for summers 2007 onwards they have sometimes been pretty hot, but humid with rain clouds belting through like a conveyor belt. There have been some very dry summers in there but trend of hot and very wet mostly.

 

[Notafettler]

Yeah it's a bit of a mystery innit, less pollution from Planes and Cars and the weather gets better, in fact almost as good as in the 70s when there were less Cars and Planes. Surely this can't be linked can it.

No, there is obviously no link. Are you seriously suggesting the effects of global warming would diminish in a couple of months?

 

[Notafettler]

Although very hot in the day time, night conditions are closer to normal spring. Sufficiently cold at night to bring in tomatoes. Lost all my Borlotti beans less than 3 weeks ago due to poor weather forecasting. Hoping for a similar amount of rain as last year towards the end of summer, as it was the best ever wild mushroom season EVER. Yes yet another record broken. Every year they come up with the....since records began... bollocks.

 

[classic33]

Yeah it's a bit of a mystery innit, less pollution from Planes and Cars and the weather gets better, in fact almost as good as in the 70s when there were less Cars and Planes. Surely this can't be linked can it.

2018 was a half decent Summer.

 

[Notafettler]

Swings and roundabouts I think. Some years are good and some are bad. The last couple of years in Wales have not been good even by Welsh standards.

Wales has never set a great standards for weather. Unless you are talking about rain?

 

[welsh dragon]

Wales has never set a great standards for weather. Unless you are talking about rain?

Surprisingly enough we do have some fantastic weather.....when it isn't raining of course.

 

[Brandane]

Even I, the rain magnet and general weather sceptic, will admit that March to May has been far and away the best I can remember in my local area (Ayrshire). Mind you, in recent years it hasn't had much to compete with. I just hope that we aren't going to have to pay the price once proper "summer" arrives. The forecast for the end of the coming week says plummeting temperatures, but still no significant rain. It would be nice to have 6 months of sunshine to look forward to (water shortages not withstanding), but I'm not confident......

 

[Handlebar Moustache]

Amazingly warm in Edinburgh for the past week or two. Usually even if the sun is out the wind is cold. The wind has been warm. I’m originally from down south and this feels like southern weather.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Pollution is directly linked to the amount of rain we see.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Summer not here yet. Will let you know once we are a few weeks into it.

 

[mudsticks]

It's been the driest spring that I can remember in 30+ years of farming and growing.

With blistering hot days, cold nights - not favourable conditions for temperate loving crops - including grass.

It's too hot to work outside in the middle of the day.
Some crops that would only need watering in once to get going, have really struggled - some have died, if I haven't caught them in time.

I've deployed as much irrigation as possible, but nothing soaks in like a couple of days rain.

Yes of course, the sunshine is lovely, but the heat, and lack of rain is making tjings quite desperate for farmers and growers.

Some rain, and cooler temps forecast for next, but who knows how much??

 

[Notafettler]

With blistering hot days, cold nights - not favourable conditions for temperate loving crops - including grass.

The cold nights are very noticeable.
Mind they would be with the scorching day time temperatures!
All the same very cold nights.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Admittedly I wouldn't normally be indoors as much as this year but there has been an amazing sequence of sunsets here. Clear skies, often cloudless. Here's this evening's.

 

[gavroche]

Had this debate on here about the first day of spring! Meteorologically it is the first day of summer tomorrow (1 Jun). The Astronomical summer starts 20 Jun.

IMO in reality it started when lockdown did and has made lock down allot more pleasant

And the astronomical is the only one that matters.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

And the astronomical is the only one that matters.

I agree in principle but when your toes feel like it's Autumn in August, your toes are right.