To think this is a stonkingly good summer?!

I usually struggle in the heat as I'm overweight and menopausal ... however I've loved this summer! Not sure why. It's so nice to just get up, put on shorts/vest top and fling open the doors and windows. We've used our garden so much this year, eating outside most nights. I realise I'm lucky that I wfh though.

It's been lovely mostly since early April .. DH has his birthday then and we were sitting by the Thames in London in the sunshine.

Warm? Or unreasonably hot and dry ? As a scientist working for decades in climate change this last few years is feeling like the start of the apocalypse which means I am not enjoying it at all but am scared for my children’s future

but hey - oh look it’s a bomb let’s go out to play with it

Could people possibly enjoy the weather but still bear in mind that this is an absolute nightmare for farmers, firefighters, and anyone affected by fire especially currently in Spain, France, and Greece?
It comes across a bit like celebrating war because it has increased your personal profits for some reason. It's highly distasteful.
And I do hope you remember it when the food shortages really begin to bite.
I just find the celebratory tone very me me me, no-one and nothing else matters.

Not a good summer if you have livestock. Food prices will rise as there is a shortage of nearly everything, yields are down and shortage of hay/straw etc.

I was being lighthearted.

I agree, I live in a seaside resort and it's been lovely not having to feel sorry for the holidaymakers trapped in their caravans listening to rain hammering on the roof. I don't really want it any hotter though.

I'm in Scotland and we have had a steady 20c, more or less, and zero rain for months, going back to March. 27c today! Never known a summer like it. We usually get a couple of hot days and then it's over. I've been out in the garden at 7am every morning and often read out there in the evenings till sundown. I chose the right year to stay home for my holidays.

Beautiful, beautiful summer. I’m loving every minute of it.

I'm in the SE. May - June was gorgeous, early July good, but mid July until a few days ago has been grotty, cool, raining and overcast. So happy to see the sun back out again and the temperatures back to Summery levels.

Longer term, of course global warming is a concern, but sitting around inside with a face like a wet weekend whinging about the heat won't stop global warming. What will stop it is different behaviours, which we should all be adopting, of course. Going about daily life is so much nicer in the warm and the dry than in the wet and the cold, and the good weather enables so many free, outdoor activities to the poorer families who can't afford to spend a fortune on indoor organised activities over the long summer holidays.

It's lovely. I wish it could be like this all the time.

Yes, it's been great and I'm kicking myself for not having gone to a 4 day week this year instead of starting in March next year.

I'm north west so it's not been as hot or amazing as elsewhere, but I've been able to wear shorts fairly reliably this year, and dresses and sandals whereas the last 2 years have felt like endless winter apart from a couple of nice months earlier in the year.

It doesn't half buck your mood up being able to have a cup of tea in the garden in the morning before work in the warm and being able to eat dinner outside in the evening.

It is beautiful. It's going to get up to 30c here today.

I have a short day at work, so have the afternoon to sit in the sun and read, which is one of my favourite things to do.

I'm happy that we got a good summer this year.

Yes I agree, it’s been the first actual decent summer we’ve had for years. Loving it

I keep thinking this! Yes it is too hot on occasion but the lovely blue skies and sunshine have been SO cheering. We've had a few summers where it's got to September with everyone grumpy and feeling deprived - not this year, and I'm very happy about it! Glorious!

Wales is a great place to escape the heat. Often when we are holidaying there I see that home (London) is some stupid upper 30’s temperature and feel very happy not to be there. Sadly not in Wales this week and it’s getting too hot. Check out the aircon in your nearest supermarket!

It's the worst/hardest summer i've had for years. The fields are scorched, the horses hate the ridiculously hot weather and forage yield is down which means prices are up.

Walking the dog and exercising the horses needs to be done very early or very late in the days which makes my days super long and stressful!

I'm doing a rain dance.

Yes its been great. Last year was awful.

I want another like 2018 as it was hot for weeks.

Yes, we are in our caravan, east of the Pennines and its lovely, forecast is good all week. Little bit hot today so heading up the hills

Yes it's been amazing since April! I feel like we've had almost all our lunches (and a lot of dinners, breakfasts) outside since then. A bit of a dip just as the schools broke up, of course, but still great on average. I actually seem to like hot weather more as I get older.

However, it's rubbish for the garden and very worrying for the long term really. It's also very erratic. It either seems to be horribly wet/windy/stormy (last year) or a drought and heatwave (this year) and nothing inbetween.

Joy tinged with fear.i hate rain and I hate cold. But I see how low the rivers and ponds are here. I remember hot summers/waterfights etc from my childhood, but am pretty sure I'm remembering odd days. Especially as I'm in NWales. I remember hosepipe bans too.

I don't remember consistently high temperatures like these and it makes me worry about the knock on effects. 18 was cause for celebration. 25 used to seen as ridiculously high, but that's fairly standard now. And the fact that it's not just here. Talking to various locals in Greece on holiday, who were worried about how hot it's been there.

Don’t be so flippant. It looks like mass volumes of displaced people, war, water and food shortages and civil unrest. You think food is expensive now? We’re in the foothills now, it’s just starting off.

Its been a horrible summer for me. I'm in Finland and we had 22 consecutive days where somewhere was at least 30 degrees, with everywhere being far too hot the whole time, and it doesn't cool down at night because of the very short or non-existent (further north) nights. Every day I had to work inside a building that was 26-28 degrees with air conditioning on full blast.

Then the rest of the time it was cold and rainy. Think we had about 2 or 3 days of actual pleasant summer weather, the rest was one of the two extremes. And its only going to get worse in future years, the climate is warming at a significantly faster rate in Finland than the global average 😞

A bit too hot if anything, I'd prefer it to keep under 27C myself. I'm really glad we chose this year to go to Scotland on summer hols as it would be annoying to have a bad summer and feel like we'd missed out on a chance to be somewhere warmer!

The thing no one talks about, not surprisingly because, y'know, pandemic, was how incredibly lucky we were with spring/summer 2020, in SE at least. It was literally warm and dry from April to late September in the year we could only entertain ourselves outside the house outdoors. It would have been awful with an archetypal British Summer.

I can see why for those that like the sun it would be.

Personally I find it too hot. Menopausal and on a tablet that impacts on the bodies ability to regulare temperature. Off work this week and haven't bern able to do dome of what we planned because it is too hot. Know others struggling with the heat too.

Mot saying I don't like nice weather, but the heat level is just a but too much for us.

Be boring if we were all the same. We don't go on holiday to hot countries either. Last trips have been Norway, Iceland and Paris ( buy in November).

For me there is also the concern as to why it has been so hot in the uk.

Yes and for once it'd actually included the school summer holidays! It's usually lovely in June and rubbish in August but this year its been great full stop and I'm in Wales, so to have it nice here is great.