"Stephen Davenport" wrote in message
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On Friday, July 20, 2012 8:39:27 AM UTC+1, wrote:
There's a lot of talk at present about summer arriving and the media
are
expecting a sunny heatwave. I urge some caution.

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We've been discussing this sort of thing here, too.

The likes of, oh let's say The Express and their usual rent-a-quote, would
have us believe in a country bathed in a 'proper' 'scorching' 'heatwave'
with temperatures up 35C. In fact, The Express's front page banner headline
today is a simply enormous '95F'.

That story goes on to say that, despite this, August will be a 'washout'.
I'm not buying that either. I envisage a relatively anticylonically
dominated
August.

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We have to disagree there a bit Steve, I fancy it will be an unsettled and
thundery August with an upper trough over us and that dratted jetstream
(which affects all northern hemisphere weather in mid-latitudes) to the
south of us again. But that is just extrapolating the GFS fantasy charts on
a bit.
We shall see. But you know what, we can forget the possible 40C now that I
got so excited about back in March!!!

Will
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On Jul 20, 5:54*pm, "Dartmoor Will" wrote:
"Stephen Davenport" wrote in message

...

On Friday, July 20, 2012 8:39:27 AM UTC+1, wrote:
There's a lot of talk at present about summer arriving and the media
are
expecting a sunny heatwave. I urge some caution.

===================

We've been discussing this sort of thing here, too.

The likes of, oh let's say The Express and their usual rent-a-quote, would
have us believe in a country bathed in a 'proper' 'scorching' 'heatwave'
with temperatures up 35C. In fact, The Express's front page banner headline
today is a simply enormous '95F'.

That story goes on to say that, despite this, August will be a 'washout'.
I'm not buying that either. I envisage a relatively anticylonically
dominated
August.

==================

We have to disagree there a bit Steve, I fancy it will be an unsettled and
thundery August with an upper trough over us and that dratted jetstream
(which affects all northern hemisphere weather in mid-latitudes) to the
south of us again. But that is just extrapolating the GFS fantasy charts on
a bit.
We shall see. But you know what, we can forget the possible 40C now that I
got so excited about back in March!!!

Will
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I hope not, I need something resembling a summer this year, having so
far (though this week hasn't been too bad) got one either here or in
Austria.
That said, I don't need hot, I'd be perfectly happy with average
conditions but I wouldn't want the worst summer since 1956 which I'd
guess is what we'd get if the pattern of the past 6 weeks
re-established itself.

Thoughts on setted weather for September? October?

Nick