If you could go back through the summer months within your memory and
select individual months (June, July and August) to put together a best
and worst summer ever, what would they be? In other words, what is the
best/worst June, best/worst July, best/worst August you can remember?

For me, the best summer would comprise of something like June & July
2006, and August 2003.

The worst summer would be something like June 2012, July 2007, August 2008.

As you notice, my memory is hazy before 2000 (although I remember the
hot summers in the 90's) and I am relatively young, so I have chosen
recent years.

Adam Lea wrote:

If you could go back through the summer months within your memory and select
individual months (June, July and August) to put together a best and worst
summer ever, what would they be? In other words, what is the best/worst June,
best/worst July, best/worst August you can remember?



All depends on what you mean by "best" and "worst". I think you would find
quite a range of opinion as to what constitutes "good" and "bad".

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

Norman wrote:
Adam Lea wrote:

If you could go back through the summer months within your memory and select
individual months (June, July and August) to put together a best and worst
summer ever, what would they be? In other words, what is the best/worst June,
best/worst July, best/worst August you can remember?



All depends on what you mean by "best" and "worst". I think you would find
quite a range of opinion as to what constitutes "good" and "bad".

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For dry, hot and sunny nothing has come close to 1976 for me from my
earliest memories in the early fifties.
Dave

On 2013-05-14 07:43:19 +0000, Norman said:

Adam Lea wrote:

If you could go back through the summer months within your memory and select
individual months (June, July and August) to put together a best and worst
summer ever, what would they be? In other words, what is the best/worst June,
best/worst July, best/worst August you can remember?



All depends on what you mean by "best" and "worst". I think you would find
quite a range of opinion as to what constitutes "good" and "bad".

Yes, and it all depends on where you lived at the time. I seem to
remember the summer of 1977 was a wonderful warm and sunny affair in
the Highlands of Scotland, but not in southern England.

If I had to choose the best June, July and August, I would plump for
them all in 1959; mainly because there were spells of hot and sunny
weather, but occasional thundery breakdowns which provided some much
needed rainfall, and meteorological interest. I cannot remember it that
well, as I was only a schoolboy at the time, but for me that summer
just about measures up to my ideal.

The worst June that I remember was 1972, but there have been others not
much better. July 2007 takes some beating, as does August 1962, but I
prefer not to dwell on those too long. If we had those three in
succession, I don't think there would many people left in the UK.

Adam Lea scrive:

If you could go back through the summer months within your memory and
select individual months (June, July and August) to put together a best
and worst summer ever, what would they be? In other words, what is the
best/worst June, best/worst July, best/worst August you can remember?

For me, the best summer would comprise of something like June & July
2006, and August 2003.

The worst summer would be something like June 2012, July 2007, August
2008.

As you notice, my memory is hazy before 2000 (although I remember the
hot summers in the 90's) and I am relatively young, so I have chosen
recent years.

My memory is hazy before 2013!
I cannot recall any summers, good or bad, from my long life aside of the
fact that the last two never quite happened. These are not the sort of
things that stick in my mind.


--
Gianna
Peterhead, Scotland

On Tuesday, 14 May 2013 08:22:50 UTC+1, Adam Lea wrote:

For me, the best summer would comprise of something like June & July
2006, and August 2003.

They have a bit of a halcyon glow about them but the summer when I ended my University degree (1996) seemed to be unremittingly sunny and glorious. Spent a summer playing cricket and working on Reading campus which as I'm sure you know Adam isn't the worst of places to be...

Richard

On May 14, 8:22*am, Adam Lea wrote:
If you could go back through the summer months within your memory and
select individual months (June, July and August) to put together a best
and worst summer ever, what would they be? In other words, what is the
best/worst June, best/worst July, best/worst August you can remember?

For me, the best summer would comprise of something like June & July
2006, and August 2003.

The worst summer would be something like June 2012, July 2007, August 2008.

As you notice, my memory is hazy before 2000 (although I remember the
hot summers in the 90's) and I am relatively young, so I have chosen
recent years.

For me:

Best June 2006
Best July 1989
Best August 1995

Worst June 2012
Worst July 1988
Worst August 2008

and FWIW:

Best overall summer: 1989
Worst overall summer 1980 (very vague memory) or 2007. 2012 looked
like it would beat 1980 until August came along and was kind-of ok.

Nick

"Adam Lea" wrote:

If you could go back through the summer months within your
memory and select individual months (June, July and August)
to put together a best and worst summer ever, what would
they be?

I'm generally hopeless at associating particular weather with particular
months and years but I do remember the summer when we saw 100F for the first
time in August 2003 because I was having a lovely day sipping cool drinks
under the sun shade at my naturist club and having the occasional dip in the
pool, thinking "this is the life" :-) Oh for glorious weather like that
again...

On Tuesday, 14 May 2013 08:22:50 UTC+1, Adam Lea wrote:
If you could go back through the summer months within your memory and

select individual months (June, July and August) to put together a best

and worst summer ever, what would they be? In other words, what is the

best/worst June, best/worst July, best/worst August you can remember?



For me, the best summer would comprise of something like June & July

2006, and August 2003.



The worst summer would be something like June 2012, July 2007, August 2008.



As you notice, my memory is hazy before 2000 (although I remember the

hot summers in the 90's) and I am relatively young, so I have chosen

recent years.

1979 Filey Butlins. Oh the horror, the horror.

On 14/05/2013 08:22, Adam Lea wrote:
If you could go back through the summer months within your memory and
select individual months (June, July and August) to put together a best
and worst summer ever, what would they be? In other words, what is the
best/worst June, best/worst July, best/worst August you can remember?

From memory.....
Best:
June 2010, July 2006, August 2005.

Worst:
June 2012, July 2009, August 2008.

I remember June 1989, July 1995 & August 1995 as being good; June 1997,
July 1993 & August 2000 as being pretty bad but that is so long ago I
cannot be sure without actually looking at real data.

--
Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk