Another summer of black water...

'The summer came and went / It passed us over...' So sings David Sylvian in the elegant Blackwater by Rain Tree Crow, an ironic favourite of mine from what I remember as the fairly heady and sun-baked summer of 1991. But lately the British summer has been black water all the time, indeed black sheets of rain...
Today the Met Office has issued a 'revised' forecast for more 'unsettled weather' until the autumn - though 'the end of August might be better again.' Cheers. Apparently when the Met was enthusing about a 'barbecue summer' back in April it was doing so 'to help journalists' headlines.' An ‘independent meteorologist' called Philip Eden has blamed ''spinners' in the Met Office' for going to town on same. Has every workplace got to have a spinner now?
Also we're told that 'at the time of the ['barbecue summer'] forecast there was pressure on the Met Office from tourism chiefs in the UK to be positive about holidays at home...' As if those Brits who were financially fortunate enough to contemplate a holiday this summer weren't already poring over the UK brochures, knowing their hopes of sun were written in sand...
Now we're told the fact of the matter is that the jetstream is stuck above the UK, locking a weather system in place. Result? Black water...