Hello fellow summer haters. This thread helped me get through the hideousness that was summer 2018.
I live in the South East. The temperature is always a good 2 or 3 degrees higher than on the weather websites, once it gets over 20 degrees it seems to stay that way!
I hate the way people behave in the summer. Noisy neighbours, idiots in cars pumping out music. Violent crime rates up.
Physically, I cannot cope with being hot, I hate it. Hair sticking to my scalp, clothes clinging to me. So hard to dress 'professionally' . Luckily I mainly work from home but have meetings/briefings to attend, usually in London, which is the seventh circle of hell in the summer.
Ten years ago, after night after night of 96 degrees in our bedroom, we caved and bought proper air con unit. The best few thousand pounds ever spent on the house. I think I would have been suicidal last year without it. I have a health condition which is exacerbated by dehydration, which means in summer I am drinking constantly and going to the loo almost as frequently.
20 degrees is warm enough for anyone to do anything outside they want to, anything above is unnecessary.
For,those saying we've had our nine months of winter - where are you living, the Arctic? It didn't cool down properly here until the beginning of November and we had one of the mildest winters ever.
Once the clocks go back, my heart sinks. After that is daily weather watch and planning to limit exposure as much as possible.
Global warming is a real and clear danger to the planet, some parts of the world will become uninhabitable. Probably not in my lifetime but the regular heatwaves in previously temperate climates are just the beginning.
Solidarity to everyone who suffers in the heat. Hope we get more cooler days than last year.