Summer 2013 has been the warmest, driest, and sunniest since 2006. It’s likely to be one of the top 10 hottest, 16th driest, and 7th sunniest since records began. This is official – from the Met Office.
I think it’s important that we remind ourselves of what the Met Office was saying only three months ago. It was reporting that we’d have no summers for the next decade – The Guardian reported on this, as did The Independent, and the Daily Mail, etc. The best part in all the reports was:
Met Office experts who got together to discuss recent unusual weather patterns predicted yesterday that Britain faces a decade of wet summers.
Of course, everyone knows what this summer has really been like – after all, when one is classed as “the 16th driest” it can hardly be simultaneously classed as a 
wet one. It’s still going on even now, as we enter autumn, and it looks likely to continue for a while yet if the Jetstream forecasts are anything to go by.
But I’m surprised that no one has hit on the Met Office over this. They haven’t successfully forecast any single part of this summer – when you look at the original stories, it was like them betting their entire pile of chips on red, but having it come up black. They were 180° degrees wrong!
Mind you, this year has thankfully been free of any involvement by Exacta or Jonathan Powell.