When did the narrative around warm weather change?

My dad remembers it well and said he was miserable and it was too fucking hot. In family history he stomped outside, flung himself on the grass and slept there all night as he said it would be colder

100% people complained. It just wasn't as prolific as no social media

And the price of beer going up due to cereal crop failure.

• my sister has had terrible migraines due to the stifling heat having to work in a hot hospital being over 35 degrees - we can’t all sit and relax in our gardens - I have been so tired and lethargic in this heat as well and trying to sleep at night is impossible ! I was ill in 76 with heatstroke but that heat was a rare occurrence - sadly I think these temperatures are going to be the norm now sadly!

Slightly off topic but am I right in remembering we had night after night of really loud thunderstorms in the summer of 76? I was only 5 and hated them - used to get in my parents bed and sandwich myself between them both!

I agree with you. People have become completely wet nowadays, whining about everything. God help us if something catastrophic did happen. But on the good side it might help people find their inner strength.

Because it was objectively not as hot. I’m sure plenty of people found 76 fucking miserable too, sounds like there are some rose tinted glasses going on. And the very fact people are still harping on about 1976 shows how rare this used to be.

There was much less obesity in 1976. If you’re obese in this weather, it’s so much more uncomfortable.

Absolutely.

At mid 20s it is glorious.

30 degrees is boiling hot miserable hell.

Out of interest, I wonder is the op retired or have grown up children? Because this weather is much more tolerable when you’re not having to head out on school runs at the hottest part of the day, or working in it.

But there were the reminders and warnings. That's the point. This sentimentality of the good old days when people were tough and just got on with it is just a rose tinted glasses version of the truth.

But there were the reminders and warnings. That's the point. This sentimentality of the good old days when people were tough and just got on with it is just a rose tinted glasses version of the truth.

It’s a result of the age of the internet and a back drop of climate change. In the good ole days you had the bbc telling you it was hot and to keep calm and crack on and so that’s what people did. The population was lower, there was less anxiety in general, and people didn’t have an expectation of an easy life with most having been through the war years so had more resilience or rather more tolerance to instability and disruption.

When I go outside in anything over about 25, unless I’m in the shade. I very quickly get dizzy, feel sick, lightheaded and just generally like I could collapse.

Some people love hot weather, others don’t. Like I say I’m ok with temperature up to around 25 degrees.

The news is more prominent than it was in the 70s about everything.

Climate change has meant that 30 degrees has become a normal summer temperature whereas when I was young( now 61) it was almost unheard of. A normal warm summer would be low 20s which was lovely, not the mid to high 20s and low 30s we get nowadays. The few degrees difference makes a huge difference to how the heat affects people and makes a summer go from feeling pleasant to unpleasant.

Yeah but the batshit lemmings lap up this kind of thing gleefully.

After all they were all screeching for harder, longer lockdowns for two years because of a flu like illness.

I have very fond memories of carefree playing in the garden, playing outside, chugging back pints of squash after hours of playing out.

I'm now a menopausal woman with a toddler, bills and a job to go to. My skin has been undercover for that long that I got sunburn yesterday standing outside for 30 mins in the sun 🤣🤣🤣

I'm not against the weather but I don't like being too hot as an adult these days. My daughter on the other hand is lapping it up and living her best life running round in hardly any clothes and a paddling pool and ice cream.

Perspective I guess

Completely agree. The drama..its summer it should be sunny! In NI it has been sunny for 3 days and it is going to rain tomorow.

Without the propaganda, how else would the taxpayer be fleeced in the name of Climate change?

If I went out yesterday I can feel my skin burning, immediately. It’s hard to describe but it so hot, it’s just feels unbearable. I sweat loads, hard to breathe (humidity?). I’m also a red head with pale skin, which maybe doesn’t help.

I would never book a holiday somewhere the temperature was above 25. I find 18-20 ideal.

I’m 41 and a redhead, it’s always been a “thing” for me
making sure I had suncream, being in the shade, staying off school on sports day as you weren’t allowed inside and there was no shade on the field etc etc

Probably because you were a kid- you wouldn't have cared about hydration and skin cancer risks... The same warmings were happening you just wouldn't have noticed them the same way

Completely bonkers! 😬

YANBU - there was someone on LBC the other day saying children should all be kept INSIDE between 11am and 6pm!

When did everyone start to overuse the word narrative??