The most memorable crummer you have been through

July 2018, San Francisco. Highs of just low 60s and overcast and windy. Yuck. I was only there for a week however. It was like regular October/November weather here. Not horrible for that time of year but in July I average 85/72 so that felt really cold. As far as for here on LI, it was not 2009 like many are saying, as despite the cooler weather, we averaged 82/65 for the season still, and it was a decently dry summer too, June had 1.32" of rain and July had 1.75", so it was dry (avg is about 3"). 2014 and 2018 were the most crummy, they were both too wet. 1999, 2010, 2012 were our best, plenty of drought and heat.

2019 as far as recent years go. There were some objectively worse ones further in the past but those were in the days when I didn't care much about the weather, so I don't count them.

The 2019 warm season seemed to be off to a great start, with a total lack of ice days and snowfall after mid-March (except for some very brief flurries on one day in April), a snow melt that was on time and didn't drag its feet, and leaves that were starting to noticeably leaf out by late April, a couple weeks earlier than normal. Fantastic, right?!

Nope. May 1st rolled around and had a colder record low than the entire month of April, and that pretty much set the tone for the rest of that month - cool highs and frigid nights. It slowed down the bloom to the point that things weren't fully leafed out until early June, despite the early start. June itself was alright and actually featured the warmest temperature of the summer in the first week of the month.

Then July came and the real crummer began as we would get a couple days of above average temperatures before dropping back down into the low 20s, often with rainy conditions. We managed to hit temperatures above 30C exactly twice in the entire month and ended up with a record high of 30.5C. August followed and featured very cold nights, to the point that we almost had our first frost of the season in the middle of the month. It felt more like September than August at times. (thankfully September itself ended up being nicer than average)

The mildness was made even more apparent by the contrast with 2018, which had been almost the exact opposite - frigid shoulder seasons but a much warmer than normal late spring and summer and the hottest temperature in a decade (38C). As much as a I preferred the milder shoulder seasons of 2019, the lack of consistent normal summer warmth left me feeling unsatisfied and strongly reinforced the fact that I need a proper summer (by my standards) to be satisfied living in a climate with cold winters.

Every damn one of them, but Septictember 2020, August 2019 and June 2016 were horrible.

I feel like most summers have basically the same weather year-to-year in North Carolina or Oklahoma, so I don't particularly notice them that much. Summer 2007 in NC had a horrible drought, so maybe that counts as a crummer. Summer 2013 had a lot of rain and little extreme heat, so many here would consider it a crummer, but I liked it.

How did I miss this thread?!


Crummer 2020/2021

I've already went into detailed analysis about this abortion called crummer 2020/21, so I'd be just repeating myself, so I will post the links here. Please read these crummaries of the crummer. There's also an article from the local paper. What set this crummer apart from other summers which have a shit month? This one had no fucking redeeming qualities, no compensation. You see, most other summers which feature a shit month also have a decent heatwave(s) or an above avg month. But not 2020/21. Even 2019/20, with its incomprehensible Fuckuary (see below), had a very good December which I believe was some 2C above avg and also recorded a high of 48.6C. But this season, no sustained heat, just hurricane force southerlies nearly every day with NO instability of ANY kind, NO weather, just hyperstable boring ass windy lukewarm shit with boring ass few to scattered faux-cumuli that were flatter than a Mcdonald's cheeseburger. 

I can only imagine the infuriating hell that this crummer was in southern Victoria. All the stratocrapulus cloud, the 22C Dickcember. Poor @jgtheone.  


Dickcember: 
cdweather.boards.net/post/151067/thread

Fuckuary and the crummer as a whole: 
cdweather.boards.net/post/162264/thread

And the newspaper arcticle (geddit... arcticle lmao): 
cdweather.boards.net/post/163380/thread



As much as a peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeece of fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this crummer was, there was Fuckuary 2020. Yes, Fuckuary 2020. That singular month is THE benchmark to beat. Behold, the terrorism that is Fuckuary 2020. And no, there were no storms. 

And that day ( and the previous one ) broke historical cold max temp records throughout Northern Victoria and the Riverina of NSW
Read all about it.....

www.australianweathernews.com/news/2005/050202050205S.HTM

Here, we had a high of 13.5C and 138.8mm of rain. I would love to have a system like that hit in winter

Summer 2016 would be the worst one I experienced in Vancouver. All the others were quite warm and dry but that one seemed to be frequently cool and rainy, I remember there being plenty of fully green grass until late July/early August sometime (nearly a month ahead of when it would normally turn yellow). I recall maybe a couple weeks' worth of normal summer weather that year.

That polar cold snap last May was very annoying.