This weather!! I could SCREAM!!

It's really warm today down south... we are in sun defence mode with all the curtains and windows closed. If it makes you feel less envious I will be commuting in 30 degree heat by the middle of the week on sweaty overcrowded trains. I'd happily take cloudy and cool over that.

Could you wave it 10 miles down the road please? It's dull and sticky here!!

Not all of Scotland! I'm in the Western Isles, and it's really windy, but at least the wind has blown away the fog, and the rain has stopped for a while.

We don't usually have the best of the weather until the first week in July (although May is often lovely, weirdly), but it is usually better than this.

TBF though, as a later poster rightly identifies - it's the difference to what is the norm for the area at the time of year that's so depressing for the OP (and me, and others who get what she's complaining about). We're not saying "bloody November, it's cold and wet again, what's that about?" because we expect November to be cold and wet, just as we all know winter mornings and evenings are dark and so we have strategies to cope with that, be it appropriate clothing to stay warm and dry or a daylight simulation lamp and a Vit D supplement. But between late April and late June it's not unreasonable to expect some half-decent weather, some days of sunshine and warmth, even in the cooler and more northerly parts of the country overall. And this year that has been almost entirely lacking in a way it simply isn't in most years. Up until two weeks ago, the temperature in my part of the country was rarely reaching above 12 degrees, and a 14 deg. day was worthy of note, and it was just constantly grey. Of course we can't do anything to change it but it isn't usual or easily predictable (and a London/SE-centric media continually predicting 'heatwaves' and 'BBQ summers' doesn't help 🙄) so it's not so easy to be as calmly accepting of the disappointment of it as it is something that you know is definitely going to happen, like rain in November or getting dark at 4pm in December.

Sounds grim OP

Glasgow. Figures. I was in the US and had joined a day tour in SF. We were introducing ourselves to the tour operator, a Morgan Freeman look alike. Glaswegian introduces himself and Mr Faux Freeman, dramatically points to the sun. "Bet you havent seen that much in your life, enjoy it while you can Sir!"

Similar in Norfolk, summer started just in time for the exam marking period. Thanks!

Sweating my backside off in 24 degrees, had the heating and fleece sheets back on last week, zero chance to acclimatise! 🥵

It's TOO hot here in tgr, North West!

Don’t say that! I’m at the Foo Fighters tomorrow!

I am in South Wales and even though overcast it’s really warm and humid .

Totally get you OP. We are similar in Belfast in that our best and sunniest months are often May and June ("exam weather" means hot and sunny around gcse times!).. And this year has been just grim. Just grey and much cooler than normal. It's not about comparing to other hotter places it's about comparing your normal to this year and this year for some of us has been crap compared to our normal.
Not needing the heady heights of 20+ 🤣 just a bit of blue sky and temperatures of 16 - 18 would do us all rightly. Hold the faith.. Maybe this year it will be summer in July for us!
Ps Belfast is actually really lovely finally yesterday and today. I'll wave some your way!

Southwest here. Mild but very overcast. Same yesterday. Bloody depressing.

In Oxfordshire it's warm but very cloudy. Seen the sun about twice. Certainly no heatwave.

Very warm but grey/overcast in Fife at the moment.

Not South Wales it hasn’t. Grey. Humid and unpleasant. Bit of drizzle first thing.

As mentioned according to my friend its warm & sunny in Edinburgh today with cloud & blue skies 🤷‍♀️

26 on the NE England coast today. I'm in my shorts I'm the garden after and early dart from work. DS abd his mates are on the ⛱️

Today? It’s 27 and sunny here

My friend in Edinburgh tells me its cloudy but very warm with blue sky betwen the clouds.

😂😂at the South West being under a heat alert....the highest temperature forecast in this part of it is....brace yourself....22 degrees. Hardly worth a "heat alert" IMO.

I don’t really understand these sort of weather threads. Some people like warm weather and sun, some people hate it- none of us can do anything about any of it 🤷🏼‍♀️

Climate change has probably already been mentioned, but obviously it’s a factor. Our weather is likely to continue to get more extreme and more unpredictable. We can all help to look after the planet in small ways.

Poor weather can affect mental health, but unlike other things that can affect MH (work, relationships etc), we can’t do anything about the weather so the onus is on us really to find some sort of acceptance. Either that or just continue to get vexed every time the weather isn’t doing what we want it to.

My MH suffers in the winter- not the weather but the short daylight hours. There’s nothing I can do about that, apart from relocating to somewhere nearer the equator. I don’t really want to do that so instead I have to find strategies to help me get through a dark UK winter. There would be no point me coming onto MN to get angry about the fact it’s getting dark at 4pm

It is lovely in SE England today though, just in case no one’s mentioned that yet 😉

I'm burnt!! We live in the wettest part of the u.k!

If they want less people to use their more comfortably air conditioned cars................

Is this where we complain about it being 25°C in the Highlands? ☀️🥵🔥
Will happily send it south for you OP, I've no the claes for it!