my hubby heard?

Question

that it is set to rain/drizzle until the end of august!! has anyone else heard this?? where is summer??:-(( UK

WE ARE CAMPING AT THE END OF JULY:-((

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

Forecast for the remainder of Summer 2007

Temperature

The Met Office continues to predict a high probability that mean temperatures for the remainder of Summer 2007 will be above 1971-2000 averages over much of Europe including the UK.

June temperatures so far have been above normal over most of western Europe. For the UK, despite an unsettled start to summer in many areas, the mean temperature to 24 June is 1.5 °C above the 1971-2000 average.

Although some warm and sunny weather is likely, forecasting models continue to signal that weather patterns of the type that can bring particularly hot and sunny spells to the UK will be fewer than in some recent hot summers (e.g. 2003 and 2006). This may be partly a consequence of the expected development of moderate or strong La Niňa conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
Precipitation

Many regions of the UK have experienced well above normal rainfall during June. Indications for the remainder of summer favour average or drier than average conditions over central and southern Europe and wetter than average over parts of northern Europe. This suggests that in the UK a trend towards average rainfall is more likely for southern regions, while average or above average rainfall is more likely in the north.

Answer 3

Even the best weather guessers can't really forecast maybe more than 3- 5 days in advance. We have a "maritime" climate, rather than a "continental" climate and the weather fluctuates too wildly for any lengthy forecast.

In this neck of the woods, we say we don't have a climate, we just have weather. Whether it's raining or whether it's going to rain! It's not unknown for it to be blazing sunshine on one coast and on the other coast, about 12 miles away, to be tipping down.

Answer 4

Yes, it could be true, because the a jet stream is running much further north than usual, pushing all the front straight over us, normally in summer it has moved south.

hence why we are get rain and rain, they do drift around as global air masses heat up and warm down. We will have showery weather throughout July, predicting high altitude air streams beyond a month is harder.

Answer 5

Yes I have heard that twice now. I live in Scotland and was told by two people it is supposed to rain all summer long with one day of sunshine. I guess that makes up for the good summer we had last year

Answer 6

It's set in for the next week or so for certain, but not all over the country

For instance - It's going to be wet where I live this weekend, luckily I'm going to be in Berkshire not Devon and it should be dry there.

At least that's what the forecasters, the name is not a joke, I was on shift with last night said before I finished

Answer 7

Tomorrow is meant to be sunny and Ive heard August is going to be a scorcher, I hope so as moving house and have booked 2 weeks off!

Answer 8

I've heard this too. I heard that there will be 8 weeks of this and then it will get really hot September time. (Though the hot bit is sure not to happen). Hope not, I'd really like to dry some washing before September!

Answer 9

Ohh according to the BBC this morning, the weekend is supposed to be good!!


Hope I'm right and your hubby is wrong - I'm fed up of the rain!

Answer 10

long term forecasting isn't really an achievable science, so you'll have to wait and see like the rest of us. i hadn't heard that, i'd heard mid july but as i said they don't tend to rely on long term forecasting. one day at a time!

Answer 11

ihave heard similar but not till the end of august i heard till the end of the year