Meanings of dreary summer in English

I shall pass over that dreary summer of '74.

The close and dreary summer passes away.

And Violet, with worn-out strength and spirits, remained to find how desolate she was-leftbehind in dreary summer London.

We have had a very cold and dreary summer, the few warm days could easily be counted, and now the winter is at the door.

After their crews were on board again, and the "Investigator's" sixty stowed away also, the "Resolute" and "Intrepid" had a dreary summer of it.

The second series of Utopia (Channel 4), which has illuminated the dreary summer schedules with its gory acid-neon sci-fi, came to an end last night.