Am I the only person on MN who loves the summer?

I love it too op, I adore feeling the sun on my skin and the bright days.
I do actually enjoy all the seasons it’s just the proportions of how much we get of all of them seems skewed.
We don’t get enough sun compared to grey days imo.
this ‘heatwave’ is surely just the absence of clouds and cold wind, why is it so bloody hard for them to line up more often?!
Anyway I’m just about to go for a swim in the lake, and it’s a lot more pleasant when it’s like this than it is in the colder months 😂

I love everything about it except the actual heat! The longer days, the plants, the golden evenings- all of it is wonderful, though my intolerance of the temperature makes it hard to actually get out and enjoy it.

The slightly cooler evenings after a long hot days when things are finally tolerable, though? Nothing beats it.

Nope, I go out for a long walk every day, and in summer I'm always out and about several times a day. I find being outside on a dull cold day horrible and have to force myself to go out - on a warm day you can't keep me inside.

No, you most certainly aren't alone. Where I live we are heading towards winter and I am counting down the days until summer returns. I love summer and autumn (we have lovely warm autumns here).

Summer life is so much easier than winter, I'm sick of wearing layers.

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Those who enjoy it must just be lounging around doing nothing active.

Nope. In fact last summer I was working a physical outdoor job.

I guess people really are different, and the heat-lovers and cold-lovers will remain forever baffled by one another!

I meant acclimatising as individuals, in the short term sense. I always found when going abroad somewhere hotter, for example, that it took a few days to get used to it (haven't been abroad for a few years now). But avoiding aircon where possible seemed to make me acclimatise better.

I hate the hot weather with a passion. Really unpleasant when mucking out stables, working in the garden or even going walking.
Those who enjoy it must just be lounging around doing nothing active.
Roll on the cool autumn days

July? There was a thread like that a couple of days ago.

I love summer!
But meds make me heat intolerant so the frequent heatwaves we get now mean that I miss out on too much of it.

My older cat has been sunbathing happily. I think the younger one must be a secret mumsnetter. He came in three times to tell me it was Too Hot.

I would rather have damp cold than damp, sweaty heat.

We can’t acclimatise because of climate change and climbing record temperatures each year. Otherwise we already would have.

The humidity also means cold weather is a really horrible damp cold, rather than dry and crisp. Basically all temps feel more extreme.

We don't need AC - better to adapt to the heat. Perhaps the issue is it's too unreliable to have time to acclimatise!

Also not sure about insulation - surely it works both ways and keeps the heat out? I really noticed this staying in a friend's new build - it was cool inside but much warmer outside.

I think you are forgetting that the UK is very humid - water carries heat, which affects the way we feel heat and how our bodies regulate. We also don’t have AC in our homes as a standard, they are designed to keep warmth in. People get heatstroke very easily in these temperatures.

I like aspects of it but overall prefer autumn. I don’t like being hot, I don’t like sweating, and I don’t like it being light so late.

This is pretty much what California is. Warm and lovely and sunny from February-ish to November. I did a year-long programme there and immediately understood why it is so expensive and desirable!

I wonder why they find artificial heat so much more preferable?

I love the sun. Love swimming in the sea. Eating outside, being able to ride my bike everywhere without getting rained on or frozen. Lovely flowers and fruit in the garden. Nice walks in nature with blossom and flowers. Butterflies and dragonflies and bumblebees (could live without the wasps and mosquitoes tho). I get a bit cross whenever I have to spend a sunny day indoors.

Having lived in the Canary Islands for 3 years, and then on the Peninsula in Andalusia 4/5 more when the kids were little in the early 2000’s; bizarrely-lovely as it was - I missed the seasons so much.
Back in uk since 2007- love the changing seasons however random they are and wouldn’t change the weather for the world x

I forgot sun kissed skin. I am yet to meet a person who doesn’t compliment someone when they have sun kissed glow. You just feel better. (Unless you are untannable like my BF but she still loves sunshine).

This is the actual most wonderful time of the year. Getting lighter every evening still, warmer weather, getting the nice clothes out. And no socks! I literally feel more grounded the less I have on my feet and love the sense of freedom and not being all bundled up that summer brings.

Sunshine
Vitamin D
Solar Energy
Longer days to do lovely things
Warmer sea/rivers to swim in
Fresh & dry laundry on the line in no time
Beer gardens
Gorgeous flowers & greenery
Blue skies
Outdoor cooking
Eating outside
Happy, smiley people
Long evening sunset walks

why on earth would you not want any of that?

lol me and my family are loud oiks who grasp every minute of sunshine to socialise play music and get all the kids and grandkids together to run wild so I feel ‘your’ pain (wink)!!
xx

Its my favourite season too

Love love love the summer. Bring on the sun I say.