The 2018 summer and thunder thread

[Puggit]

26 degrees in northern France. After a day of gardening, gin and tonic is in hand!

[Captain Smerc]

21c in Ongar , it was another hood down day .

[Puggit]

26.5 recorded in Lincs today. Outrageous.

9 inches of rain in Carmarthenshire

[leglessAlex]

Puggit said:

26.5 recorded in Lincs today. Outrageous.

9 inches of rain in Carmarthenshire

Outrageous indeed. Um.... What the hell is going on?! The snow thread was started ages ago, I didn't expect to still be in tshirt and shorts*!





*I mean, I'm always in shorts for practical reasons, but that doesn't count.

[Puggit]

Easiest answer is the world's weather patterns are still recovering from the stratospheric warmings during spring. Nothing is how it should be.

Calgary has endured a freezing autumn.

[funkyrobot]

Puggit said:

26.5 recorded in Lincs today. Outrageous.

9 inches of rain in Carmarthenshire

Lincolnshire has indeed been toasty today. Felt like a normal summer day, but with extra wind.

[S100HP]

Puggit said:

Easiest answer is the world's weather patterns are still recovering from the stratospheric warmings during spring. Nothing is how it should be.

Calgary has endured a freezing autumn.

What does that mean for the other thread?

[Pericoloso]

I did say the other thread was too early....

It's tipping down here BTW

[Puggit]

At the moment the stratospheric vortex - the low pressure system that typically sits over NE Canada/Greenland and helps drive the jet stream (along with the Azores High) - is disorganised. So no low pressure conveyor belt, at present.

I doubt there'll be any more heat, either. Time for this thread to die!