In general weather terms it's been pretty usable without any prolonged heat.

Dryness has been notable and a lack of thundery activity (two sessions, neither close).

Not too far from standard really so I'd give it 7/10 ;)

Poor summer here really.  Just a few war3m days so expectations have had to be scaled back to the extent that 15C and not raining is considered a decent day.  I've looked on enviously at those further south enjoying temps up to 30C+.  Dont get me wrong, I don't expect those temps here but maxes around 21C and sunny is not too much to ask surely?  

I'll give a few extra points because we've had 3 days with thunder (including a pretty ferocious overnight light show at the start of the month).  3/10.

Average high so far in July is 22.4C in York and 19.5C in Edinburgh, so yes a clear difference. In Belfast the average high to the 15th is a shocking 18.9C.

Overall first half good , certainly dry around half average rainfall, above average sunshine , took a while to warm up  but a lot of very useable weather if not spectatcular. Basicaly cant complain , as I say to many people this is the UK not the Med

My impression so far is that not too bad really. Certainly far better than most , if not all the past summers going back to and including 2007.

I have had a decent number of useable days.

Summer 2015: typical, average, nothing special, etc.  Glad we haven't had the excessive heat of the continental.  Yes to pleasantly warm and sunny, but a definite no to searing, relentless 35c - 40C plus humid hell scorchers.

From a rainfall perspective there are some significant differences across the UK. Most central and western areas have seen somewhere around  75-80% of average rainfall in the first half of summer which is pretty good.

The south eastern quarter of the UK has only seen just above half of average rainfall at 55%. Locally the figures are much lower than this - for example I have only recorded 40% of mean rainfall in the period to 15 July.

On the other hand Scotland has faired rather badly with average rainfall across the whole country at 122% of the mean - see Richard's post in the rainfall thread a few minutes ago for confirmation of this. This figure is fairly consistent across most of Scotland.

The position summarised above does not look like changing through to the end of July at least.

It's been a good summer for this part of the world without being spectacular. June was cool but sunny and dry. July have been sunny and very warm for the most part. Consistently above 25c for the East region which is pretty good in my book.

Its been an absolute horror show here in Coastal Ayrshire apart from a few days in June. Again today very grey  cool (14c) and constant threat of rain.  This has been the theme for the last few weeks .. the odd warmer day has been cloudy and humid, Dont think 20c has been breached here in July and that trend looks set to continue.... a foul summer and i am glad that i got away in June for 2 weeks to Spain.

1/10

This seems like as good as place as any on this forum to place a copy of my response on FB to Ian DJ posting the following image as part of a discussion regarding the way this summer has panned out, during which it had become apparent that meltwater from Greenland was playing a role in our westerly-dominated season:

"I think there was a lot of pre-conditioning involved, with the weather patterns from around spring last year setting up a cold pool which the melt-water [from Greenland] has since enhanced.

I wonder how easily it can be dispersed in the seasons to come - it seems to be self-reinforcing, as the increased thermal gradient between it and the subtropics enhances the jet stream and encourages longwave troughs to develop between Greenland and the UK [hence all our Atlantic-driven weather], these bringing a lot of cloud to the area of anomalously low SSTs followed by plunges of cool/cold air on the western flank as areas of low pressure exit to the east.

I have a theory that during the earlier stages of the cold pool (i.e. last spring and summer), when it didn't extend anywhere near as far east, it was encouraging trough development well west of the UK, so encouraging ridges of high pressure to build across the UK before heading on to Scandinavia where they tended to set up shop for a while. Through the early stages of this the cold extended further east, its effects becoming apparent once the usual strong atmospheric thermal gradients had dissipated later in the spring (I believe the cold Arctic generally dominates the jet streams behaviour over SST gradients between approximately early November and late May).

As a final thought, just how much colder than normal does the N. Atlantic need to become before we can expect snow-laden westerlies all the way down to the South Coast in the heart of winter?  "

Fascinating stuff SC. That chart is quite incredible.

Actually it does not look that dissimilar to the chart for the end of June 2009 which was the last time we had a significant El Nino event.

http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2009/anomnight.6.29.2009.gif

Temperatures in the first 7 months of 2015 have overall been fairly similar to the same period in 2009. Jul, Aug and Sept were all fairly average in 2009. Oct and Nov were warm but of course we then had the coldest winter since 1978/9! Not saying that will happen this year but interesting times I think.

The melting of the Greenland ice cap does not bode well for the N and W of the UK.  There is a long way to go...

You big tease!

Tomorrow will mark the 3rd poor Sunday out of the last 4. Even for the south that has been relatively blessed so far perceptions will be falling away quite quickly now. 

Odd, after a warm and dry month (we finally broke the below-average duck yesterday for the first time in over a month!) it's really no surprise that things are likely to change now. A cold and wet month would after all just be balancing things out...

Today is unusual in that it actually feels fresh down here, dewpoints in single figures have been very hard to come by in the past few weeks!

My perception of Summer thus far would be filled full of expletives so probably best to keep it to myself.

Yes it been a poor runs of Sunday and now this month rating for temp wise had drop to 2/10 while dryness and sunshine levels no change so far but if get too much rain until 31st July the dryness will go down to 2 to 3/10 so this July would go with poor July 07 to 12.

Instead of the improvement for everyone that I was hoping for - looks like its about to get bad here - indeed bad for everyone. Heaven forbid what August has in store.