Is this colder than most ‘junes’? So miserable

I am in the East Midlands and not been in the 20's here. 16 today, 17 forecast for tomorrow and then 14 for the next few days. Oh and rain most of the days too!

Absolutely shit weather and has been since last June

It’s June. It should be warmer than it is.

I shouldn’t need to wear jumps and hoody’s just to be able to sit inside my house.

yay it’s not too hot humbugs… it’s horrible most of the year 🙄

I don’t wanna wear jumpers

It’s absolutely baltic. 12 degrees and windy here today. Rarely been above 15, pretty sure it’s not hit the 20’s at all yet this year. It has rained for what feels like 9 months. I’m cold and I’m damp and I’m sick of doing dog walks in the mud and wellies and needing copious towels to dry us both off when we come in.

Im also sick of gleeful ‘oh I love it like this, I hate it when it’s too hot’ type sentiments. When you get your ‘preferred way’ weather wise for around 10 months of the year if not more, have the good Grace to at least try and empathise with those of us who really struggle with the shitty low temps and gloomy clouds and biting wind and live for those Occasional warm and sunny Days. Also people who clearly live in areas where the climate is slightly more temperate eg - not the Fucking frozen north - who seem to be determined to not understand that everyone doesn’t have the same weather, you can bore off too.

@PiranhaPeaches

that may be true but it’s still shit weather and people are allowed to say as such.

What you want doesn't figure. The weather doesn't care.

The weather isn't going to adapt to you, so you have to adapt to it. That's the reality.

Will read this slowly and carefully. Thank you!

It’s snowing here (Canada)

LOL fair enough, sorry. 😆

It has been so weird. I've been in the nordics visiting family for a while and it has been so hot for several weeks. Then I call my partner in the UK and it has been so cold. It has usually been the other way around or at least similar. Coming back next week. Might need to book a holiday for later if it doesn't get better 😅

Agree - we're just back from a mini break in Plymouth. The weather was bizarre - in the mornings we were dressed in jeans, shirt, jumper, anorak. Freezing wind and grey. Then at around lunchtime the sun came out and it was glorious, so off came the jumpers etc, lovely to feel hot sun on bare skin, really felt like summer. Throughout the afternoon it kept changing from hot to cold as the clouds passed over. Both nights were very chilly though.

I have been very interested in this for quite some time. I was at university when the global warming narrative (since rebranded as 'climate change' to cover all bases) was first coming to the fore - it was very lacking then (but I along with many other student environmentalists at the time lapped it up because it seemed to fit in with an anti-establishment, 'green' narrative!). Now it has become the mainstream narrative that is endorsed by the 'establishment' - anybody who tries to argue that the science is far more complicated, and certainly not 'settled' is automatically cancelled - anyone remember David Bellamy? https://www.palatinate.org.uk/tributes-paid-to-naturalist-and-ex-durham-academic-david-bellamy/
Anyway, I am aware that there is a great deal of disquiet in the USA about the inadequacy of their terrestrial temperature record, and I am personally aware that the UK Met Office has markedly decreased the number of official weather stations in recent years https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/. There is an interesting article here https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/04/met-office-must-account-for-the-junk-temperature-data-propping-up-net-zero-insanity/
What really infuriates me is the fact that any open scientific debate has been all but completely shut down. It is an absolute nonsense to believe that the science on this matter is comprehensively understood and 'settled', or that dismantling our economy as we race too quickly for 'net zero' will not be the cure that is worse than the apparent disease! If the principal climatic drivers turn out not to be focused on carbon dioxide (and I don't think that will ever be readily admitted, even if it is true) then we are fools not to be focusing instead on making our society resilient to the sort of shocks that will result from extreme weather events in the future (changing climate will continue to exert significant impact, as it always has done, regardless of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels).
I am currently coming to the end of my lunch break - but I will try to find some links to some of the key scientists who have been trying to highlight the issues with climate science at some point over the weekend (credible scientists, including a noble prize winning physicist!).
However, it is important to note that the propaganda machine is now in full swing - and search engines like Google are very efficient at burying sources that don't comply with the current paradigm (and prioritising results for sites that attempt to discredit critical material - the ludicrously scientifically weak 'DeSmog' blog springs to mind!).

If you do it every day it improves your circulation so yes it can do

It isn't like that everywhere in the UK @Sahara123. This is why there has been an unusually high number of threads on MN about the cold and wet weather that most of us are having.

It's been rubbish in South Yorkshire where I live. We have had 9 cm more rainfall in May than usual, for example.

I wouldn't mind being able to hang my washing out

A slight reminder that whilst it might be sunny in the south of England the North is most certainly not! Watching a school performance in jumper and coat.

Ooh where are you, I’ve just been singing the praises of sunny Scottish weather ! I’m central between Edinburgh/ Glasgow.

Some of us struggle with the cold. I have Raynaud's and feel it way more.

I agree. I’ve mentioned Scottish weather before , we’ve had some lovely sunny days mixed in with some more overcast ones , which is pretty normal here. In fact some cracking hot days too . Definitely no need for jumpers & heating , I’ve been in shorts and flip flops for weeks now . Nights have been a bit cooler but actually that suits me fine . I can’t say we’ve had non stop awful weather which stops me from going out.

It did snow on 2nd June 1975.
I was at school wearing my green striped summer dress and was freezing.

I am wearing 2 t shirts, a fleece zip up and sitting with my feet under the duvet

it's freezing

We've had windows open and summer duvets on for a while but it's definitely not feeling like summer. I'm hoping the warm weather is being saved up and we might get a hot July and August!

As they say though, there’s no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing

Please stop repeating this trope. It's getting boring. Wearing warm clothes still doesn't make the ambient temperature warmer. I love spending time outdoors, and am about to do some gardening. In warmer weather I would like to sit in my garden and enjoy the fruits of my labours, instead of looking at it through the window.

What don't you get about people wanting warmer weather and being able to wear fewer clothes, no socks etc?

Nearly the longest day of the year and it is still unrelentingly wet and miserable.
Walked the dog this morning in my winter puffa coat, wellingtons and could have done with a pair of gloves and a hat. Constant wind with driving drizzle.
Utterly f*ing soul destroying non stop wet, windy weather.

Has it always been this windy for so long?

I have SAD and if the rest of the so-called summer continues along similar lines my mental health is going to be fucked come autumn