Weather Chat Thread

It all makes sense now.

What a comfortable start to July. No 20°C, and last night went down to 9.6°C. Great weather. Long may it continue.

Norrköping is one of the places with the most consistency in warm Junes lately. Their all time record before these last 6 years was 17.7'C, then came these years:
2018: 17.5'C
2019: 18.1'C
2020: 17.9'C
2021: 18.8'C
2022: 17.5'C
2023: 18.1'C

These 6 years averaged more than the previous record.

Funny that Christchurch In New Zealand gets a similar wind. As the hits the west coast of the South Island bringing rain it travels over the Alps and across the plains of Canterbury gaining momentum and heat and then blows hot strong air into Christchurch. You could literally see it coming with an Arch in the Sky. The temperatures would raise by about 5-8°C in a short period. The wing would come through and It would be relentless. It would dry you out aswell and it just made you generally grumpy if one were exposed to it for so long which we were working outside. I seen plenty of lads just go home because of it. I hated it 

That JetStream's looking a bit loopy 

A wet and unsettled month in the UK. Jetstream stuck to our south or over us at times, with low after low swinging through. As such, we are already at 145% of the entire month of July's average rainfall with a lot more to come. The much lower than normal temps have been comfortable though.

Well, well, well. I am utterly surprised, even if I must say so myself, that the second half of Juluary has sunk to the depths it has; the average maximum temperature sinking like a lawn-dart into the depths of the abyss by the day after what was surmised to be a mere "blip" of low pressure in the first week of the month.

My average maximum temperature now stands at: 19.6°C. Yes, you heard it right, a good 2°C below average, and getting lower and lower. So we are now dead set for the coldest and wettest July since the horror that was 2012. Infact, this month might well end up worse than that. Worst since 2007? Possibly!

I have indeed not minded so much the below average temperatures, as there's been no sweating or sleepless nights, indeed the good quality of sleep has been one of few mercies from this autistic weather pattern indeed. But the rain that has fallen so frequently has been the biggest fly in the pie. Never has it been persistent but more unpredictable, often not predicted at all, such as yesterday when the Met Orifice said dry after 11AM, which was not to be, as shower after shower rattled through my vicinity til 4.

Now as we look into the final 10 days of Juluary we see no fewer than 4 low pressure areas slide and spin their way down to the UK in the most obedient type of manner, a "pass the baton!" of predictable order to see us into August which looks to follow suit initially, at least.

The fact that East London, A Coruña, Lerwick, Bogotá and Bödo are all classified as the same climate type while Punta Arenas and Ushuaia are not is quite odd innit.