Yup. For a few days models were showing a settled & likely warm Saturday, with decent prospects of a dry Sunday. Out go the party invites. In comes the output with a washout Saturday evening & Sunday.

Our climate is f*****g w***.

I like the UK climate when its average - but this summer has admittedly been a little worse than average. That's my major grievance - there's no room for error. Above average? Great! Average? Not perfect, but pleasant. Below average? Dreadful. 

Summers in places like New York are too warm for me, but at least a below average summer there is still warm.

Sometimes, I really do feel like throwing in the towel regarding the weather in this country. Nearly anywhere else in Europe would be an improvement. If we could just get a summer like the ones we had from 1990 to 2006 I'd be fine. Even last year was nice. 

We had some good summers in that period but some bad ones too. 1991 was nothing special, 1992 and 1993 rubbish, 1997 crap until August, 1998 terrible, 2000 and 2002 poor, and 2004 while warm ended with the wettest August of the century. Essentially we had a decent run of 3 years from 1994-1996, and another OK pair from 2005-6. Otherwise the usual rubbish British weather.

The more one looks at the stats the more it becomes clear that British summer weather is, on average, utterly rubbish.

On the bright side there can't be many other places in Europe where the temperature in mid January will only be a couple of degrees lower than it was today. 

Lots of people moaning but this has been one of the most pleasant summers for a long time (IMBY of course). I've had more meals out in the garden this year than in the past three years put together. It's only in the past week that my lawn has reverted to anything approaching green. I have only had to cut it three times since May. It has been that dry.

Well that clearly isn't true - unless you think a typical summer in London is rubbish, but I don't.

Between 1989 and 2006, only 1992, 1993, 1998 and 2000 could be described as poor. 1997 certainly wasn't crap until August - July was marginally above average. 1991 was also above average - average high here was 22.7C in July which is 1.4C above average while in August it was 22.3C which is 1.3C above average. June was a shocker though.

I think this year hasn't been great - but you seem to be the type of person who will only be happy if something like 2006 or 1995 turns up again, which is fine if that's the type of weather you prefer, but you're going to be disappointed every single year, bar a few exceptions, unless you move somewhere else.

Well, duh - we all have differing benchmarks for what is deemed acceptable in summer depending on where we grew up. What a Londoner considers an acceptable summer day would be deemed cool in Paris, and what a Parisian would consider an acceptable summer day would be downright frigid for someone in Rome.

For me, I consider 20C the bare minimum for acceptable in summer, but 21C is what I usually consider the cut-off point for 'nice'.

It's all relative - but London's summers are definitely not as sunny as that. 3 Octas? You can only wish! Like all of the UK bar the south coast, every month is London registers more cloud cover than sunshine. The sunniest month in London registers only 212  hours which is only slightly more than our sunniest month which is 210 hours.

I'd say a skies  like this is fairly typical here in summer, and May as well: https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8152/6964356240_613b80a6c8_c.jpg

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1990 was another year which had a rather poor June and then changed for the better in July with avengeance. I remember reading somewhere a long while ago that June 1990 was the first below average CET month since April 1989, yet that summer then gave us the hottest day recorded in the UK prior to 2003 at the start of August.

Just goes to show how fickle a beast the British weather is. The events of July just passed which started with the hottest July day on record for the UK and yet still managed to finish with a below average CET overall is proof of that in itself.

[wonders if you'll get a smacked botty too for IMBYism...]

My perception is rapidly going downhill, and I can't see any [heatwave] light at the end of the tunnel

It's not on a scale of crappiness with the summers of 2007-2012, and it's frequently been sunny & pleasant, but no nice spell has been sustained, and certainly no heat (apart from a fleeting couple of days at the start of July)

I feel the year as a whole is more of an issue than the summer in isolation; the last spell of clear, sunny weather lasting more than a couple of days was way back in mid-April, and that only lasted five days (18th-22nd April).

Most years manage one or two spells of such conditions lasting a week or so and bringing a sense that the weather is really putting on a show. This year it's all been scattered fine days among many plagued by large cloud amounts and/or spells of rain.

Remember the final 10 days of May 2012? They were stunning for a large part of the UK, and helped us to soldier through the often tragic couple of months that followed. I fondly recall cycling along the coast in Southsea with the temperature in the mid-20's even as the sun was setting. The sensation of cycling through a sauna will stay with me for a long time.

This summer I have no such special memories, though there is one of a different kind thanks to the extraordinary storm I experienced 3rd-4th July. Without that, this summer would offer nothing to me, as I was away during the hot weather that kicked off the month.

Alarmingly, even the winter months offered only the occasional bunch of 2-4 crisp, sunny days, and only managed one morning of lying snow, while frosts were fairly patchy apart from a short spell at the end of 2014. There weren't any notable windstorms either.

Fact is, this has to date been the most tedious year of weather I can remember, the early July storm a glimmering gem in a mountain of dull grey rocks.

Surely the only way from here is up?

A hugely disappointing summer full stop!

Crap just doesn't cut it and in the last 30 years only May - August 2012 was worse than the same period this year, remember in Cumbria and Scotland May is normally the driest month so a washout May just adds to the misery of a poor summer.

I am still waiting for the Mediterranean summers promised by the climate change models 20 years ago.

Andy

Mediocre to poor is my perception but unlike some contributors I enjoy continental style heat rather than low 20Cs UK standard fare. TBH our barbecue count for this summer (at home because on hols in the south of France we had several!) is a grand total of 0. I'm past the stage where I'm bothered about the barbecue ritual for the sake of it and having to pull on a jumper and fleece in the evening pretending to enjoy a beer in the 'usable British weather'.  

ATM August rating would for sunshine 2, dryness 2 and temperatures at 0 out of 10 as there not a single hot day occur yet.  Overall for June is 6, then July 2 and August going for 1 out of 10.  2015 are now going down to the 2007-2012 path and even that year had a bit more hot spells than this year.

Our climate is carp full stop. Snowless winters and summers full of rain - even when it's dry it's usually unbearably humid.

Corrected!

Interesting. I'd put this summer in front of 2009 & 2010 - although I think each of those had a warm spell that was slightly less fleeting than this summer's, whereas this summer has just been depressingly average for most of it (and I missed a week of shoddy weather when I went on me jollies)

I find it odd that Calgary is where it is at all to be honest. To situate a city at 51° N at an elevation of over 1000m above sea level is quite unusual surely? The rain shadow and occasional Chinooks must be a bit of a lifeline in winter time I'd have thought. I think early last September the whole city had quite a heavy snowfall as well?

It's there (in a city sense) because of oil/gas.

The climate can be bananas. First time I went there (May), we landed mid-afternoon with temps nudging 80f - and still piles of snow lying around from a dumping a couple of days earlier. After a couple of nice days, temps began to fall and a week into our stay an overnight snowfall gave a good 8/9". By the time we were flying home, temp were back up to 80f.

My brother now lives in PEI and it can get a serious amount of snow in winter too. Last winter was a notable case with a level depth of around 6ft at times. 

As others have said Calgary really does have a volatile climate!

Why not move to Canada, you have a excellent chance to get sponsored by him that last only 9 months then you move there.  I would be in a shot to get out from here as I see summers are getting cooler.  You should prioritize your interest before family as some don't move because of their kids and suffer to stay here. 

I rather like it here(for reasons other than our climate) so may take the drastic step of prioritising my family ahead of my interest in the weather. Strange I know 

Canada makes a good place to visit though.