I've just had a look at how rough the mid summer period was down here in 2021.
For those of you in the north, you obviously had a good summer. Down here, I locally had a 28 day spell with just 58hrs of sunshine between June-July. For context, that would be a below average *February*.
Compounded by getting roughly 300-350% of normal monthly rainfall and maxes being 1.5c below normal.
It might just be the worst ever summer period I've personally ever experienced. Whilst August was also dreadful, in contrast it didn't feel quite as bad as that period. At least early June and mid July were decent which saved it from being quite as rough as the likes of 07/12, despite that dreadful period.
Just felt like a rant on that summer, and to help the northerners here understand just how rough it actually was down here.