A remarkable summer indeed, and quite possibly the first to have two months above 18C in the CET since 1995. Indeed a kind of hybrid of 2003 and 1995 in many ways.
A hunch (and a few other things - the SSTA pattern, the phase of the solar cycle, the warming trend, the better state of Arctic sea ice and so on) tells me perhaps we have seen a secular shift this year and we could see several hot summers in the coming decade. And several very mild and possibly dry winters. A dry winter followed by another 2022 spring-summer = 1976 revisited. Let’s see. But Europe has already seen the shift. It just seemed to be muted in Britain by multiple summers of southerly tracking jet and Greenland high.
Originally Posted by: TimS