This monsoon summer.

Can anyone remember a cooler or wetter late spring and early summer? If my memory serves me right we have had below average temperatures and above average rainfall since early April. Apart that is from a few hot days a couple of weeks ago when we had a tantalising taste of a real summer. Even so there good things to be taken from this season; everywhere is so green, the water shortages are a thing of the the past, and we get some dramatic sky views when the rain eventually stops. Like this one taken from my front door yesterday when the rain briefly subsided: