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RIP Summer: 2025-2025

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BeLoudRubyPanda · 24/05/2025 12:00

Today it feels like autumn or winter. It's about 18C here. My forecast for the next week is pitcured here. Also you can see the seasonal averages for my area.

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Snippit · 24/05/2025 23:00

It’s been so warm and gloriously sunny that my last utility bill was only £66, I do have solar panels on a south facing roof and these have halved my electricity bill.

knitnerd90 · 24/05/2025 23:00

Britain got America's weather is what happened. It was only about 9C yesterday (normal high: 25) and we've had loads of rain! Some poor town has had 10" so far this month. I actually do think I read about something being up with the jet stream.

treetopsgreen · 24/05/2025 22:59

I said it because we've had weeks of sun in the UK so that must mean our summer has been and gone so I could be wrong.

have we really had weeks of sun? I'm still in jumpers most days as I was today but I don't find 20 degrees hot although it's not winter!

RockItLikeRocketFuel · 24/05/2025 22:56

Welcome to Britain, @BeLoudRubyPanda ; you must be new here.

Ginmonkeyagain · 24/05/2025 22:55

Eh? It was pretty warm, and even muggy in London today and we were sat outside drinking until about 8pm. Yes I had to out my cardie on for the walk home, but that is hardly winter temperatures.

We are going to an outdoor festival tomorrow afternoon and evening and the weather looks fine.

Echobelly · 24/05/2025 22:40

That's.... totally normal for May in the UK? And May is still spring in my book. Looking online, most sites seem to put normal May temperatures at 14-18C, so actually this is on the warm end. And it's generally quite rainy so this May has also been petty dry so far. I think the fact that in the last 5-10 years we've have some record high temperatures have skewed ideas of what's nirmal.

ButteredRadish · 24/05/2025 22:27

It’s going to be 20°c here up north tomorrow.

LlynTegid · 24/05/2025 18:42

Sesma · 24/05/2025 18:39

It's just unfortunate the poorer weather has coincided with the holiday week so it's more noticeable.

Apparently in England 13 of the last 20 Spring Bank Holidays have been wet.

LlynTegid · 24/05/2025 18:41

Come September when the schools return, the weather will be sunny.

Sesma · 24/05/2025 18:39

It's just unfortunate the poorer weather has coincided with the holiday week so it's more noticeable.

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BeLoudRubyPanda · 24/05/2025 18:36

I said it because we've had weeks of sun in the UK so that must mean our summer has been and gone so I could be wrong.

These were my afternoon and evening tempuatures for my area on this day last year (24th May)

Now it's 20C here. Looks like autumn (because of the grey sky) but feels like summer (because of the tempuature)

My main prediction going forward is a hot June and July (so a hot summer). But now I just think we'll have a cold a rainy August and September. Then a warm October with some 20-30C heatwaves then back to rain in November.

Next Spring will be average tempautres possibly

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Alconleigh · 24/05/2025 18:24

There’s been a spate of these posts. Bemoaning the lack of summer. In May. Which is spring. It’s quite odd.

tobee · 24/05/2025 18:19

Looks like op is another 1 and done wind up merchants

ginasevern · 24/05/2025 18:07

Sweetpea232 · 24/05/2025 12:58

A bit off topic but -no, it doesn’t! The ‘May’ in this saying means May blossom, the blossom of the hawthorn tree, so it means don’t start dressing for warmer weather until the May blossom flowers.

which is usually in May, but could be earlier.

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I was about the post the same thing. Not many people realise it refers to May flower which incidentally is a glorious sight.

Arlanymor · 24/05/2025 18:06

To echo others… it’s spring, it’s not summer. We’ve been fortunate to have the driest spring on record in years, not so good for the rivers and reservoirs, but good for people who want to wear t-shirts. You’re still just over a week away from summer, so maybe be a bit patient?

Zippedydodah · 24/05/2025 18:04

It’s cloudy and 19° here In north Wiltshire, I’ve just walked the dogs wearing a tee shirt and jeans, very pleasant.
Talk about being pessimistic!

Flatulence · 24/05/2025 17:42

I'm in North West England and last night we had our first rain since Easter weekend. It's been utterly glorious: endless sunshine, warm but not hot and so much better than last year's entire summer.

It's grey and 19ish degrees today - fairly standard for May. It's waaaaaaay too early to lament the end of summer; it's not really even started yet!

Bonjovispyjamas · 24/05/2025 17:30

What a weird thing to say when summer hasn't even started 🤔

marshmallowfinder · 24/05/2025 17:11

Tedious hysteria OP. It's only bloody May. Not even summer. Yawn.

romdowa · 24/05/2025 17:10

It's lashing rain here and as a woman who's 35 weeks pregnant, I'm loving it! I struggled so much the last few weeks in the heat

TheyFuckYouUpYourMamAndDad · 24/05/2025 17:09

22 degrees here today…but overcast and muggy. It’s not summer yet though so I’m not calling it…ever hopeful that come the end of July (when I really need the weather to be nice as I break up) that it will be glorious 🤣🕶️🌞

Gustavo77 · 24/05/2025 17:09

Oh I hope so! 🤞 It's been cooler and showery here today, utter bliss after the miserable heat

SpookyMcTaggart · 24/05/2025 17:08

Compared with last year, this spring has been fantastic. Lots of sunshine and beautiful wildflowers and blossom. Last year it basically rained non stop, we had about five warm sunny days in the whole summer.

It's only May - four good months still to come. As for weather forecasts, ignore any predictions beyond five days.

Dahliasrule · 24/05/2025 17:03

Just feel sorry for DGD’s boyfriend’s parents who arrived today for a week from southern Spain. First visit anywhere abroad. I just hope rain holds off as they do all their sightseeing.

JohnTheRevelator · 24/05/2025 17:02

I hardly think 18 degrees is a winter temperature! You mark my words,it WILL get hotter. It would suit me if it was 20/22 degrees all year round. You can probably tell that I'm not a hot weather lover!

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