On 27 Aug, 13:10, "Dave R.[west London]" non wrote:
Continuing poor Summer
Despite the so called improvement in pressure across the country and the
jetstream further north, this blocking High is in the damn wrong place.
Today is cool, positively cool, with sunny intervals rather than long
periods of unbroken sunshine. There is cloud, much of it too, fetching in
smartly on all levels, a bit of fair weather cumuli and upper cloud too
etc., the sun goes in frequently as the cloud is fairly mobile. It is cool a
north westerly and not summer by any means with a temperature at midday of
only 16.9C in my North East facing garden although compared with what HAS
been I suppose one has to be content. But I am not, nowhere near. Be lucky
to reach 20C today. And this in one of the most sheltered parts of the
country in such conditions, - west London.

The rest of this week has little change to offer in fact even more cloudy
days ahead. This is one hell of a poor summer even when things change from
the previous months washouts it is still poor.

DaveR, westLondon

Today poor? After last week's debacle. Today couldn't have been a more
perfect summer day. If we are "going back to what summer's used to be
like" then give me some more. Lush lawns, heat and humidity that
allows you to get on with stuff without feeling half dead, and the
ability to turn on a tap in your garden without half the street tut-
tutting that drought restrictions are on the way....