Summer 2026 (1st June ~ start of meteorological Summer)

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Yesterday (1st June) marked the start of meteorological summer (and the high temperatures last week were hot enough for some and enough to last the year!)

At the moment, the GFS thinks the first 10 days of June are looking unsettled and changeable, then slightly drier/warmer towards the end of next week but the unsettled theme still continues until the middle of the month.

Thoughts from Netweather (from a few days ago) and TheWeatherOutlook on what summer might have in store for us.

going to be 31 in london on sunday I have seen so its just a one day cool down....

Yes, we have today & tomorrow and then the temperature here shoots back up.

I am not made for temps above 25. Enjoying these 3 days while I can.

Looks like we have another day of greyish clouds delivering nothing.

Yes, it is lovely here today, and was yesterday. I get way more done! Still praying for rain though.

Heavily overcast here so the butter is firm.

No rain here at all ,no rain in near forecast

It looks to be 33 /31 here on wed south east
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Is this the super el nino and will it mean a colder winter wind even hotter summer next year ?

I don’t think this is the super El Niño from what I’ve read.

I’m just thinking back to the winter thread where I was counting the number of continuous days of rain we had. Now I’m counting the days without any rain.

We used to have a nice temperate climate; now it seems to be all extremes, so much rain last winter, our fence had a fine green mould on it for months.

The constant heat and dry weather this summer has been awful; I've just bought some foil blankets off Amazon and if it's as hot ( or worse) next summer, I'm covering every bloody window with them. I don't know what else to do.

@EmeraldRoulette we are v near Cardiff so you can message me if you have questions

Today has been nice low 20s with a breeze and some cloud, lovely and fresh in the morning.

Gosh it's actually cold out 🥶. Just let a howling cat in. It's 13c!!!

@MotherOfCatBoy thank you that's really kind

I'm not going anywhere anywhere this weekend because it's too short notice and tbh i'm not keen on travel just to get a couple of days break.

Also, I'm hoping it will change, but there's a 33 possibility for Wednesday and Thursday

So I've got to deal with that anyway.

It's 9 degrees here this morning, and actually feels a bit chilly! Lovely 🙂

We've got a nice 10C here this morning as well. Despite the daytime heat during the heatwaves we've had this summer, we've had a few nights when it's been uncomfortable but most of the time, the nighttime temperatures have been ok for sleeping here in the E. Midlands.

But the heat's now building again and over the weekend and by the middle of next week, it'll be back to high 20sC/low-mid 30sC for most of the Midlands/Wales/south and SE <sigh> The north/Scotland stays cooler/unsettled....

Yesterday's thoughts from Netweather....

Chilly yesterday and last night, but back to lovely sunshine this morning 🌄

All these low temperatures. What a great start to the day.

We actually slept with no fan on last night! Amazing. Looks like it’ll be back in by Sunday though! This summer feels never ending, I don’t like to moan but the 30s in these continuous waves is becoming both boring and exhausting:

Ah the one day cool down was a brief respite! My feet were actually a bit cold last night and no fan!

Today looks nice - 24 down here so perfect for me though the background lack of rain and stress about that mean I don’t really even enjoy the pleasant days anymore. Plus knowing we’re back up to 30 and not sleeping well very soon. And the ridiculously early dog walks. I may never moan about winter again! (I will).

I'm also concerned about the drought @Delatron I'm getting a bit of a strength workout carrying watering cans full of water up and down the garden 💪🏻

I'm still praying for rain. And a lovely thunderstorm (because I love them!). It's so dull having the same weather all the time.

I’ve taken to sleeping with a half filled frozen hot water bottle at night. I’m going to miss it when the bedroom eventually cools down. 😂 Having said that is 20 in here for the first time in over a month this morning. Just in time for it to warm up again. Might be tempted to get up and go for a walk at 6/7am tomorrow just to remind myself what 8 degrees feels like.

Mother hadn’t bothered to actually turn the heating off - it’s on a thermostat- and it was belting out this morning !

What’s she got the thermostat set at? Hotter than the centre of the sun?

I assume all the climate change denialists will be looking at the trees and shouting ‘it’s called autumn’ and ignoring the fact that they started going yellow/brown in the last week of July.

Yes @BatshitCrazyWoman me too - it’s a proper workout watering the garden and takes me about half an hour!

Netweather's thoughts on Autumn ~ we might be in for a wet one. Rain we could do with but not the storms that we sometimes get...