Is this colder than most ‘junes’? So miserable

I'm so sick of it after such a shitty winter. It's raining here as well as being cold. It's really getting to me.

Nope it’s not too cold to go out but I’d love to go out without my big winter coat, waterproof boots and hat on. We’ve had maybe 6 hot days this year, warm enough for shorts, it’s not unreasonable to want a bit of warmth and sun.

it’s been bad weather since this time last year. Bought a hammock this time last year. We’ve used it 4 times.

im not lying in a hammock in a hat and gloves.

I suppose you are full for days on 1 apple slice too...

@brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

you might wanna go to doctors about that

it’s really not normal to be hot all day following just 30 mins of exercise

It has felt very cold. We had snow and hail here on Tuesday (Scotland).

I'm in Sussex, and even when it's sunny the wind is so cold!

I'm sick of it. Feels like it's been cold and wet for a full year now as we barely had a summer last year. I've put my heating on today and looking at holidays (that I can't afford)

I'm dreading the heat as well. I'm in Essex, and it can get bloody unbearable here. Also, my home town is suffocatingly overcrowded, with horrible little new builds jammed on top of one another, and traffic that is beyond a joke. During the last major heatwave, I remember screaming into a towel in the bathroom because I just couldn't take it anymore. The combination of noise and heat and crowding drove me insane.

Ooh, thanks. I'm a few years out of the game and not kept up with modelling techniques. I didn't know about the cherry picked weather stations either or the satellite data lack of conformity. Do you have a good link? Sounds as if I need to do some reading.

Ditto my drive, it looks terrible!

@Borborygmus

i bloody hope it’s not gonna be like this every year!!

im manifesting a heatwave

I do remember one June when the weather was dire. That was 2012. I remember it so well because we had to go down to Cornwall for upsetting family reasons and it was cold and stormy, more like March than June. Also that was the year of the Diamond Jubilee and I remember the weather being awful for the boat procession on the Thames. I think the Duke of Edinburgh caught a nasty chill because of it.

That said, this one hasn't been much better so far.

Climate models are incredibly inaccurate. The range of possible temperature projections (from all of the principal models) is actually greater than the temperature increase ostensibly experienced since we came out of the 'Little Ice Age'! The problem is that there is a great deal of inconsistency in the temperature records, making it challenging for them to be utilised in modelling future weather/climate. Many weather stations have been closed and there is a lack of transparency over why the decreasing number of weather stations have been selected ('cherry-picked'?) to contribute towards official records. Adjustments are constantly having to be made, for example, to try to counter the impact of the 'urban heat island effect' - arguably a significant variable in recent temperature records. Funny how often temperature records seem to be broken at Heathrow airport isn't it!
Interestingly, the satellite data of the last 30 years is not in conformity with the extreme temperature predictions churned out by the computer models (which have to be constantly tinkered with in an attempt to get them to more accurately reflect what is thought to be shown by the proxy temperature record).

It seems a bit cooler than usual, but that's fine by me, I'd be perfectly happy for it to be like this for the rest of the summer (every year). But I do recall many years ago having snow in June, so it could be a lot worse.

We had hail stones the other day 🙈 also why is it always windy, like every day for about 2 months. Really does feel like climate change doesn't it

I’ve not found the weather that unusual for May & June, just a bit cool so two thin layers is just right.

In the past I have walked to walk in August wearing a jumper, trudged through snow in London in April & October.

The UK has the benefit of a maritime climate so seasonal variations are to be expected.

Most media weather forecasting is an approximation & even good reliable records do not go that far back so most weather trend data is recent.

I just wish the wind would stop blowing. I want to spray the weeds on my patio without covering both the rest of the garden & myself...

I can't remember the last time I wore socks in June!

Sorry, but it's been pretty nice down in Sussex. Yes it's been changeable, but most days have had some sunshine for a few weeks now and I was working in the garden in a bikini top and shorts on Sunday.

They have records going back at least 100 yrs.

The thing is, there were actually similar points during the Holocene when weather patterns became 'stuck' (caused by a more meridional jet stream - just as seems to be more prevalent recently). The transition from the 'Medieval Warm Period' to the 'Little Ice Age' at the end of the 13th century, beginning of the 14th century, was very notable for its swings in weather patterns - from extreme heat and drought to very stormy, wet conditions (which contributed to other disastrous events, such as the spread of human and cattle plagues across mainland Europe and Britain and successive poor harvests). There are plenty of contemporaneous accounts of this in English Manorial records - it is fascinating and I certainly think we should be more open to exploring the real contribution that natural climatic drivers make to our weather patterns (although it is definitely not de rigueur to make such suggestions these days).

It’s not dry here. I’ve been off work for the last two weeks and it’s rained every day apart from one. not all day but enough to put me off going cycling most days. I went yesterday and cut my ride short due to the rain starting.

Yes it’s definitely chilly as I seem to be wearing my dressing gown a lot in the evening, which I don’t do this time of year usually.

Its not cold enough for the heating to be put on but it’s not as warm as I thought it would be.

Although we’ve had a few really hot days and I wonder if that’s why it feels chillier than it is.

It is dry where I am though and so it doesn’t stop me going out and doing things, I just put my coat on.

Its 18c were i am and its really nice sun keeps popping out.
Got all the windows open wide as normal.
Not to bad.

I had to switch the heating on the other day, it was so cold. It's definitely the wind that is the worst, it is biting and cold even when it's sunny. We need a really good hot summer now, only one of the last four was anything like decent and last year's was awful.