When will London see it's first 80f of the year? (precipitation, USA)

[Razza94]

Originally Posted by tom77falcons

Wasn't 1976 a notoriously good summer? I wonder if any major films were made that year. It would be fun to watch to see just how nice that summer was.

The first Star Wars movie was filmed mostly in England during the summer of 1976, the desert scenes were actually filmed in Essex

But seriously, it's unfortunate that it was almost entirely filmed indoors, so we didn't get to see the weather. On YouTube there's an old interview with Mark Hamill, who's from California and even he was commenting on how hot it felt.

[Razza94]

Originally Posted by B87

1976 was the warmest summer on record with average highs above 25c, above average sun, and below average rainfall in all 3 summer months. Minima were nothing special though.

Jun: 25.5 / 13.7, 261 hrs
Jul: 26.6 / 14.9, 264 hrs
Aug: 25.1 / 13.2, 264 hrs

That grass was really suffering.

[Gareth100]

in early June

[chicagogeorge]

Originally Posted by tom77falcons

You and George seem to believe the same thing for both the eastern US and the UK this summer. Why? Are we supposed to have a negative NAO all summer? Negative AO? What do you think will drive this?

Not sure if the NAO will be more negative this summer.... The AO doesn't matter much in the summer especially the farther south you are.


My concern is the wet soils in the Midwest this spring makes it more difficult to see long duration heatwaves, and the moisture is fed back into the atmosphere causing convection then cooling.




The notoriously cool summer of 2009 also was preceded by a very wet spring



It could still get hot, but we would need to see a pattern change. Particularly with SST's off the Baja Peninsula. When there are above normal, the jet is aimed at the Midwest during the summer which means it will stay wet. When the waters are cooler than normal it indicated dryness for the Midwest.



A bit of good news is that the waters are indeed cooling lately off the coast of the Baja

[TorshavnSunHolidays]

there have been warmer individual months though since 1976 ,but they are the three warmest as a summer whole .

as for films - you would have to watch programmes in the UK such as the Sweeney that were filmed around that time .

[B87]

No chance for the rest of this month.

[Botev1912]

That's like 52 hours of sunshine in the next 14 days?

[B87]

Originally Posted by Botev1912

That's like 12 hours of sunshine in the next 14 days?

12 hrs in the next 4 days. Bearing in mind that this is the cloudiest May on record.

[flamingGalah!]

Originally Posted by Botev1912

That's like 12 hours of sunshine in the next 14 days?

The WeatherOnline forecasts are quite accurate but their sun hours & UV are not. They always really understate the sun hours here.

[B87]

Originally Posted by Botev1912

I have noticed the sun hours are really understated, but how understated? 25 hours?

They've been accurate for here, we've only seen like 3-4 hrs per day on average, when we should be seeing double that in May.

This is a shocking month.