No its not a lovely fucking day!

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Even in the frosty winter I'm hot, always hot. In the summer I'm just a little cooler than a blast furnace. I go out with my DH on a summers day and he always turns to me while my face is scarlet and hair dripping with sweat and says " Isn't it a lovely day! "

Spent this morning in front of a fan. Rest of the house is way too hot. DH is in living room drying his face with kitchen roll, and he loves the heat!

Sun just coming round to front of house where I am, I’m contemplating heading for the kitchen (tiled) floor or a cold bath.

Neighbours are staying inside too so far, maybe it’s not just me...

That sounds like a very reasonable point @Livpool but no it’s not ok.

Apparently 48 weeks of cold and misery is not enough. We must have more.

It’s cooler by the weekend all. And rainy next week:

But the UK didn't used to get this hot.

I love summer when the highs are 20-25 degrees. Now 27+ isn't unusual.

A combination of having DC and the peri-menopause has left me less tolerant to heat. I've been hiding inside all week.

All my neighbours are out on my road and the people behind me are out too. The parks full. Everyone here is loving the heat

I am a heat hater too. 28 degrees and higher + high humidity makes me feel uncontrollably hot. My whole head, face and neck is sweating and I feel yukky and embarrassed. It makes me feel dizzy and generally awful.

But @Delatron not everyone finds cold miserable. I love cold weather, it makes me feel energised. I love the rain, it’s fresh and makes the colours pop. Short January days are my favourite.

I am loving the heat and the sunshine. We get so little of it in this country that I really do make the most of it when it happens.
Can't bear being cold - maybe the result of living in a house with no central heating as a child.

Oh today has been a stinker, the sweat was literally running down me

Same old arguments every year. No, depending on where you are in the UK it's not 'just four weeks'. Here in the south east it's pretty much from April to October.

Secondly, just as some people love the heat and sun, so others, like me, love the cold and yes, even rain. I don't find it miserable and depressing, as a PP said, I feel energised by it. The colder the better, it's just the way I run. I adore dark mornings and especially dark nights. I love it when it gets dark at 4pm, I really do. I feel like my life is on hold in the summer months, I can't wait for it to be over.

I'd much rather this than cold. I hate being cold. It makes me very miserable.

20 degrees is perfect - nice and warm can still go for a walk and sleep at night. 32 degrees is sweaty, unbearable heat I don't know how anyone can enjoy it. It's too hot to go outside. We had to hose the dogs down poor things were so uncomfortable. The children in class today were so so tired and fed up it's too hot for them to be outside and the classroom is like a sauna as we're not allowed fans at the mo according to our risk assessment. Looking forward to some cooler weather from Saturday onwards and also hoping for a good storm

I have found my people!

I HATE the summer. It's hot and sticky and I burn to a frazzle if I'm not wearing a minimum of factor 50. I am not blessed with patience at the best of times but once that thermometer starts to creep up the little that I do have gets worn very thin, very easily. I find the whole experience of summer, the heat and the brightness and the humidity to be too much for me. Almost like it's a noise I can't block out.

I like the cold and the dark. I've spent most of today hiding in my tiled dining room because it's a good 5 degrees cooler in there than it is outside. It gets no sun. At all. It is marvellous.

@Rockbird - absolutely agree with everything you’ve just said. I love hunkering down on a cold day; having said that, wet or cold weather doesn’t stop us from doing anything, and I prefer exercising when it’s cooler. I like being abroad in the heat, somewhere that’s geared up for hot temperatures, but here 20 is plenty, thanks l.

To me 20 degrees is perfect. Lovely for a walk and I can sleep at night. I hate the humidity and I never know what to wear on the very hot days. I find cooking, cleaning and looking after the kids much more of a struggle on the hotter days. Its comforting to know I'm not the only one.

Apparently 48 weeks of cold and misery is not enough. We must have more.

Heh, you say this as if we can actually control it. We can't, so it makes no difference who prefers what, and us moaning about the heat is not a vote for less of it!

I wish it were though!

It's easy to get warm when you're cold. It's not easy to get cool when you're hot.

Ahhhh my people. Except I also hate the cold (I have reynauds syndrome so end up with fingers like ET and painful yellow toes) So I'm pretty much happy for about two weeks of the year. The only thing I enjoy about summer is the light evenings when it's all (fucking finally) cooled down a bit and I can sit outside and read and let my kids be feral little creatures in the gardens.

Have had countless thyroid tests, every bloody symptom but still resolutely normal tests. My joints hurt in the heat, I get a headache EVERY day despite drinking so much water I'm peeing clear, my eyes get dazzled from the sun, I can't even walk the 5 minutes of the school run without becoming a sweaty miserable mess and of course hay fever comes along to ruin things further. Oh and suncream makes me feel sick, like my face is trapped in a cloying sweaty mask of double cream. So also have wasted god knows how much on Asian suncream and shipping costs in an effort to find one that doesn't make me want to claw my skin off.

OH and my youngest is 4. He's a very...affectionate child. There are days when I think he'd probably quite like to crawl back inside my womb. Every year I hope that this will be the year he doesn't try and deal with being hot by draping himself over me (he's not a small child. In fact he's a fucking tank of a four year old). This year has not been that year. I live in hope. His brother isn't as physically demonstrative but is autistic so has no idea how to regulate himself or his temperature so I'm doing daily battles with him to drink water and perhaps take off the long sleeved fleecy hoodie he wants to wear like the charming little eccentric he is.

Ahhhhhh that feels better to let that out. I might print this and laminate it to hand out to everyone who insists it's such a lovely day and shall we do ALL THE THINGS outside. Or that I'd feel better if I went for a nice walk. Cheery sun loving bastards.

Another menopausal heat hating person here! Due to lack of laundry organising skills, I had to grab some clothes off the washing line to wear to work the other day. They were still a bit damp and I was overjoyed to discover the joy of the cool dampness! I'm wearing slightly soggy clothes all the time now and it's so good!

I wonder if hating summer is a British thing?

I had been wondering that too. Don't get me wrong, I can moan about the heat of summer too, but I certainly don't hate it - and sitting here on a dull cold day, in a week of dull cold days, I long for summer!

I wouldn't say hating summer specifically is a British thing. Being obsessed with the weather in general is.

Well yes @Ritascornershop I get that not everyone finds the cold miserable. I am saying you are in the right country as you have months and months of cold and miserable. Far more than this heatwave weather.

I hate the heat too, anything above about 22° is too hot for me, I've always been a hot person. The summer of two years ago was just awful as have been the last two days (30-32°). Disappointed to wake up this morning and find the forecast has changed from rain and thunder to more hot dry weather for today but at least its back to the low 20s for next week.

are you not honest with him an say its too hot? it is a lovely day if you dont need to do anything or walk about... sitting in the shade in the garden is fine, its hot but i make it work.. because when its freezing cold and so sun in the sky just dark grey clouds all the time i will be wishing for sun. s.a.d is worse than dealing with the heat and sun for me

I wouldn't say hating summer specifically is a British thing. Being obsessed with the weather in general is.

Being obsessed with the weather is not specifically a British thing.

Some of us don't have months and months of miserable cold. Some of us have intense heat, then more bearable heat, then mildness, then heat again. We didn't get winter this year in my part of the SE. About 4 chilly days and a bit of rain. That's it. But even then I don't claim to speak for other parts of the country.

I didn't say it is @eaglejulesk. I said "summer specifically is" not "is a specifically British thing".