Meanwhile in Britain, normal service has resumed... it's mostly cloudy and raining on and off and only vaguely warmish.  

We had three quite sunny days, with ridiculously blue sky. Today it is cloudy, so of course I am hanging out laundry! 
I've enjoyed the cosy end of my deck, and now understand why my cat loves to sit there! 

I am in Toronto - today was nice, things are cooling down a tad. Of course my AC breaks down exactly when we're hit by a heat wave! Recently got another... although it's a little weak.

Part of my summer job entails busking and we were advised to stay in a few days ago because of the air quality. I thought that was a little creepy - not something I ordinarily pay any attention to. Was it last month? The smoke was so thick it blanketed the streets with a smog. You could smell the trees burning across the country. Eerie! 

Where I live we have been dodging the extreme heat waves the rest of the continent has been experiencing so far this late spring/early summer. That ends this week as the usual summer heat dome that likes to sit on us has finally arrived. All of our temperatures are highs of 98-101F this week. 

One major blessing though, we've been getting a very nice amount of rain this summer. My husband had hooked up a giant bucket to catch water out of one downspout, but it's open on top (not like a proper rain barrel). My outdoors-loving daughter and I keep using that water first to water all the flowers to try to keep the mosquitoes in check, but the rain keeps filling it right back up. LOL That'll end this week too, but that's okay. I have a lot of rain water saved up and ready to go for the next few weeks. Even now, we're still considered to be in a drought and I'm only allowed to water non-vegetable plants once a week.

Generally, the last week of July and first week of August are the hottest of the year and this year looks like it won't be an exception to that. 

Although it is all fine weather down here in Southern Climes, at least for today, it is freezingly cold of a morning with thick white frosts & temperatures as low as 1 degree Celsius at 6.00 am, though it can climb as high as 20 degrees by midday. 

@coracle   We had three quite sunny days, with ridiculously blue sky. Today it is cloudy, so of course I am hanging out laundry! 

Murphy's Law strikes again.    And as soon as the clothes are taken in to hang in a garage or put through a clothes dryer, that is when the clouds go away again. 

@courtenay Meanwhile in Britain, normal service has resumed... it's mostly cloudy and raining on and off and only vaguely warmish.

And yet I've been reading comments from ex-pat journalists who complain about turning into Sunday roasts in London buses and trains, because of London weather being so hot.    Surely not. 

@fantasia All of our temperatures are highs of 98-101F this week. 

Courage, there is only another month or so of summer left, up your way, before autumn & the 21st September Equinox. 98-101F is in the high 30's Celsius, and unless it goes above 40 degrees Celsius (102.5 F) or worse still, even higher, it is still quite bearable weather. 

Posted by: @waggawerewolf27

And yet I've been reading comments from ex-pat journalists who complain about turning into Sunday roasts in London buses and trains, because of London weather being so hot.    Surely not. 

I'm in the North West, not London, so I can't comment on that.  

Meanwhile, reporting in here from north-western Victoria, it's looking much greener as we've had fairly regular rain since I last posted in this thread - apparently not nearly enough to break the drought for the farmers though and they are holding out for a significantly wetter spring to salvage their crops (canola being one of the main ones grown around here).  It appears we are likely to get some heavier rainfalls this week if the BOM app is anything to go by - as it is predicting between 5-15mm on Tuesday and 2-15mm for next Friday and Saturday respectively and even to roll into the following week 1-9mm next Sunday.

Similarly to your weather @waggawerewolf27 we've been having plenty of thick frosts, we've also had several thick fogs this winter and most of them lasting until around midday.  Our daytime temperatures have been around 13 degrees Celsius.  I sit here writing this message hoping the woodfire will pick up after it died down whilst I was settling my youngest child... and the temperature although reading 3 degrees - feels like 0.3 degrees.  Brrr...

Posted by: @waggawerewolf27

Courage, there is only another month or so of summer left, up your way, before autumn & the 21st September Equinox. 98-101F is in the high 30's Celsius, and unless it goes above 40 degrees Celsius (102.5 F) or worse still, even higher, it is still quite bearable weather. 

Well, I clearly didn't come across accurately on my above post. I wasn't complaining per se, but rather marveling that our typical hot weather was late this year. AND THEN! That hot weather never actually materialized. We continue to have below average highs for summer here. Today we only hit 90F. And tonight, we're in a flood watch. A FLOOD WATCH!!! In late July???!? Totally unheard of. 
We shall see if we get much if any of our typical hot summer weather at all this year. 

...and unless it goes above 40 degrees Celsius (102.5 F)...

Those are our typical summer temps from about mid-July to mid-August. But not this year I guess. No complaints!!!

Well, a wet weekend is beginning here, today (Friday) we're expecting between 15-25mm of rain and tomorrow 6-20mm and smaller amounts, but still potential rain expected after Saturday.  The rain is expected to be welcome relief from the drought.

It's nearly 2/3 of the way through winter, and apart from a cold, wet start, it's not been too horrible here. Lately we've had frosty mornings, sun during the day (shining into my living rooms at its useful low angle), and cold nights. It gets to about 10 degrees. Other parts of the country have had awful heavy rain and some flooding. 

Posted by: @fantasia

We shall see if we get much if any of our typical hot summer weather at all this year. 

Pretty much the same for us this summer.  Warm during the day, of course, but not super scorching, and the nights have been cool, which is really unusual.  Will it come eventually? Guess we'll have to wait and see.  Feels like September, though, not the end of July.

Posted by @fantasia:

We shall see if we get much if any of our typical hot summer weather at all this year.

...and unless it goes above 40 degrees Celsius (102.5 F)...

Those are our typical summer temps from about mid-July to mid-August. But not this year I guess. No complaints!!!

Glad your summer has not been a scorcher. Ours has: July, that is. Not to the extent of the south's usual summer temps, but certainly too hot and humid for us here in the north. Half the month we have had temps over 30 Celsius (86F), which is very unusual for us. This has been the hottest July in five years, so we are told.

July 2024 was very comfortable, with lots of lovely rain and hardly any humidity, so was much nicer compared to this year. Even people who enjoy the heat are complaining this year. Our night times have brought little relief, with temps often in the low 20sC (early 70sF) and very humid. 

As August begins later this week, things start to change around. Night time temps drop to low double digits (11 or 12C / 52/53F—good campfire weather!) and daytime temperatures are more seasonal, in the mid 20sC (mid-high 70sF), with very little humidity. As always here in August, one begins to have a hint of better things to come ... Autumn!  

Posted by @Pete:

The rain is expected to be welcome relief from the drought.

Good to hear, Pete!

Posted by @aileth:

Warm during the day, of course, but not super scorching, and the nights have been cool, which is really unusual.  ... Feels like September, though, not the end of July.

Sounds nice.  

We have a good chance of rain tomorrow and Thursday, as the cooler system moves in, after which, for the following 5-6 days, there is no rain forecast, albeit cooler temperatures, so we hope that changes to bring some precipitation mid-way through that dry-ish spell.

After more than a week of dry days, the rain is back today. On Sunday afternoon a man from my neighbourhood did a repair to my garage roof, so I was looking forward to not having a leak in my garage roof. Unfortunately there are already little spots coming through the same places.  Buckets under them, further investigation needed.

@pete  The rain is expected to be welcome relief from the drought.

It seems that the rain band which was predicted to cross the entire continent from West to East, has now arrived in Sydney, so a soggy few days are ahead. Though the weather this morning at 6.00 am was a relatively mild 10 degrees Celsius. 

We've had a typical summer weather pattern: hot and humid days (heat indices around 100F/38C), punctuated with strong to severe storms (bringing damaging winds and hail up to golf-ball size in some towns around here), along with cold, relatively dry Canadian air.

Normally those cold fronts from Canada bring refreshing, autumn-like temperatures and dew points, but again this summer it's the wildfire smoke that makes the difference, with Air Quality Index readings into the hazardous category. It was reported today that the Twin Cities have the world's third-worst air quality among reporting cities, and the visibility is only 4 miles (6.4 km); an ideal clear day is 10 miles (16 km).

The sky is a sort of milky color by day, with an orange sun; by night the Moon is dimmed and most of the stars are washed out. Winds out of the south return late this weekend, which may offer some improvement but also bring back the heat and humidity.

In any case, as @jo mentioned above, the wheel of the year continues to turn and hints of autumn are arriving. The sun is setting about 25 minutes earlier than it did at the June solstice, and we've lost even more daylight in the morning. This is statistically the warmest part of the year, but relief is in sight.

Some maple trees have begun changing color, though this appears to be due to excess rain as opposed to a seasonal change. But at night the crickets are singing more loudly and constantly, a sign I recognize as heralding the change to fall. The cicadas have not begun their calls yet - those typically signify the hot, lazy days of August around here.

The night sky also wheels on, with Leo (a sign of spring in the Northern Hemisphere) sinking into the west at dusk, and winter objects like Capella and the Pleiades becoming visible late in the night.