Does this fill anyone else with dread

I still enjoy the sun and warm weather even if I don't sit in it. I am waiting for a BCC to be removed and wear factor 50 and can cover up where it is, but being able see my garden thrive, dry my washing in nature's tumble dryer and just not feel cold all the time is a win for me.

Yes, but maybe not for a reason that immediately occurs to many. I discovered quite late in life I am anaphylactic (survived a sting, covered in hives and adrenalin-injected at hospital), two squamous cell carcinomas neatly excised from my forehead (exposure to a hot climate when very young, I was told). Now, I mostly stay out of the sun entirely until 5 o'clock. I am aghast at Bournemouth on TV (choose your beach), packed with citizenry gaily basting their bodies in fierce exposure, many later turning tearfully to the over-burdened NHS when retribution arrives. On holiday, I've always cowered out of the sun, well-clothed, no doubt silently mocked by those besporting theirr tanned frames on deck chairs around the pool

I appreciate you have complex needs and it sounds like you suffer all year. But whenever there is a thread like this you will get people saying they suffer in the heat with no recognition that for some people heat eases their condition.

@countrygirl99

I can accept that some of us have a variety of health issues that are affected by the weather, we're not all the same.

Yes, my arthritis is bad when it's cold and damp, then improves when it's warmer, but my Multiple Sclerosis (the source of my heat intolerance) is horrendous in the heat but actually better in the cold.

Of the two, personally, I'd much rather 'suffer' the arthritis than the MS, as I have more than 20 different symptoms that can be triggered by the MS, so if one factor sets off problems, they can be compounded by any (and multiples) of my other associated symptoms, making it the bigger evil.

Hence me saying that my summer electricity bills are higher than my winter ones, because my body handles the cold/cooler temperatures better, so I keep my home at a pretty constant 11-14⁰C all year round, which is far easier/cheaper between September and May than it is from June to August!

And my dad always found relief in warm weather

@countrygirl99

And people with conditions like arthritis suffer more in the cold wet majority of the year.

I've got arthritis as well, so suffer in both the heat and cold/damp, but actually find the heat far worse.

I love it! Hate the cold.

Exactly! It’s very usual to have some pretty warm weather end May/early June. Exam season! This warmth is not unseasonable at all. Doesn’t mean it’s going to steadily climb. I hope not. Low to mid 20s is lovely isn’t it? I’m surprised people are complaining already, and I speak as someone who hates a heatwave.

@Newnameyetagain45 SOME flats - we live in a thirties block of flats surrounded by gardens and trees - lovely and cool in the summer due to the thick walls and placement of windows. I don't think it got beyond 26 degrees inside even at the height of the hot weather last year.

I love it. Seeing the sun, feeling the heat on my skin fills me with pure joy.
I hate the cold and I just relish these short few months where it’s not grey and miserable

You've very accurately described British flats.

Fitted air con is surprisingly reasonable. Around £1500 per room - much cheaper than moving. We're investing in one unit upstairs in our huge bedroom (can share with the kids if it's really hot) and one downstairs.

Fills me with joy. About bloody time. We have had a very long, dark winter that has only just abated.

Sorry just seen you said mild summer, thought you meant hot days

Carpets, thickly insulated lofts, insulated walls, narrow corridors etc
I lived abroad and it was all tiles, big rooms, shutters on windows, thin walls. The difference was astounding

What's going on with all these people with "stifling" houses in mild summer weather - do you live in glass and metal boxes or something?

Open your windows, draw your blinds down during the day if the sun is high.

I’m in Scotland - I can only dream about that!

I agree that some of the temperatures we endured last summer weren't great, and I sympathise with those whose health conditions are exacerbated, but the temperatures the OP posted are in no way extreme.

No I love it at this time of year and it doesn’t mean we’re in for an extreme summer again I hope.
But if in July and August I see the weather forecast with the purple zoned heat map showing 40 degrees is on its way I will be filled with dread.
Also a Northener living in the South and I keep all the blinds down and stay indoors when it’s extreme heat because I can’t stand heat like that in the UK, it’s very different with humidity etc to the same heat abroad. Hope we don’t experience extreme heat again this summer it was unbearable.

There is no evidence to suggest that normal temperatures in May lead to a very hot summer…we could equally have a very crap summer. It just takes the jet stream to get stuck..

You must have been in your house with the heating on..., Because nowhere in the country has gone past 23 degrees C yet this year. Top temp in Liverpool was 20C this month.

Its amazing!! Everyone is in summer wear here! Couples in love everywhere etc. Big groups lunching in the public park's opposite us.

@PaperSheet duh! I definitely read 'unbearable' as bearable. My bad.

The arrogance of the sun,
and her assumption that she’s everyone’s friend

better the energy bringing thrill of the wind,
the soft embrace of the fog

That's what the poster is saying. If lockdown weather had have been like is has been this year it would be shit. It was made more bearable by the nice weather.