In message , "Keith (Southend)"
writes
Maybe a bit early still, but after such an appalling summer I would
have expected things to settle down by now and high pressure take up
residence in our region. I would be very surprised if later this month
and certainly not October talk of an Indian summer will be on going. I
must admit I can't remember such a wet early September!!!

I shouldn't complain, Mr Pepys had a similar report in 1663
(http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1663/08/), he wrote;

"At the office betimes (it being cold all night and this morning, and a
very great frost they say abroad, which is much, having had no summer at
all almost), where we sat, and in the afternoon also about settling the
establishment of the number of men borne on ships, &c., till the
evening, and after that in my closet till late, and quite tired with
business, home to supper and to bed."

Frost in August. There's something we don't see very often (at all?).
--
Tim
http://www.pitfieldbeershop.co.uk/