Why is the weather so shit?

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Stupid miserable British weather.

I have seasonal affective disorder and it’s already starting to kick in. This year, bar the nice weather in June has just felt like one long Autumn/Winter. It was freezing back in April/May too. So disappointed!

I think the general consensus from the forecasters for the rest of the summer (or at least the next few weeks) is that the jet stream will move about a bit. So next week we get a short warm spell then it shifts back - so sadly no prolonged heat but looking like a few more spells of warm weather as it moves around. Less stuck I guess.

But I agree this weather is not good for SAD sufferers.

Having yet another rainy day is really affecting my mood

It's making me so depressed. It's constant rain.

Well this was the view from our window on the first day of our holiday to the west of Scotland last Monday. We had two days when the sun actually came out for a bit.

The Scottish schools go back the week after next so it will probably brighten up then. 😀

@feellikeanalien Its still gorgeous, where abouts are you?

It was in Oban. Then two nights in Mull. (or Balamory as DD insisted on calling it). The scenery was breathtaking and we had a little bit of sun but less rain would have been nice.

I worry about the effects on the MH of children too. The six weeks school holidays should be a carefree break, lots of time outside, lots of time to explore and develop good attitudes to learning ( taking a risk, creativity, problem solving, initiative etc), yet this is going to be a holiday of screens.

So sad for them at a time when children’s MH is at a low.

I began suffering from SAD just last year. The autumn/winter/spring was brutally difficult. I was so looking forward to the summer - I wanted blazing heat. Instead, we had a few really hot days early on but mostly blah. Then July was incessant rain. Now it's August already and every day is just dismal. The sun seems to come out later in the day when our whole garden is in the shade of the house. So I can see the sun but I can't access it unless we go out somewhere. I just want to lay in the garden and enjoy the sun. I am so fucking mad. It better get hot soon. I won't survive autumn/winter/spring without a generous amount of HEAT beforehand. I just want to cry so bad. It fucking sucks.

Its due to be around 21oc for the last few weeks in August, but that's not hot. Pleasant though

@11smadams11 can you go abroad on holiday for a couple of weeks to get your fix of heat and sunshine?

I personally didn't really understand how 'down' relentlessly poor weather made me.

I guess you have to be of a 'Mustn't Grumble' mindset? A 'No bad weather, just wrong clothes' mindset? Cold, wet, blustery lil island mindset?

I spent 15 years in Queensland, which helped me understand how much, to me, reliably nice weather meant.

So, on our last family camping holiday, on Dartmoor, in August, 10 years ago, as the rain poured, we went 'Hang on'.

Thence, Spain.

First hol, arrived at the villa, Majorca, midnight. Warm. Calm. Set everyone up for the night (AC on!).

Following morning, I was first up. Shutters all down so darkish, but with piercing light in the strips around the shutters.

Opened the doors to the garden.

That scene will stay with me forever. Lawn, olive grove, shimmering pool, Tramuntana mountains; blue sky, warmth, SUN. 🌞

I went- Yes.

I'm happy that ppl want to cosy up with tea and wood burners in August; you do you. It means less competition for beautiful villas with infinity pools overlooking the Med for us.

Pre-Brexit, they cost the same!

Global warming means just this. The Gulf Stream/ North Atlantic Drift, is weakening.

Check out conditions on the same latitude as us, in Canada. Icebergs. The Gulf Stream allows sub-tropical gardens in the very south of England!

People have to stop associating 'Global warming' with 'warm weather'.

Did no one do Geography 'O' level?

Images of hideous summer weather, winds, rains, flooding- is how our governments 'convince' the less well educated that climate change is a hoax.

Yes I cannot believe the amount of people who think that Global warming means that we’ll have warmer nicer weather

it means different things depending on where you live

in some parts of the world it means flooding

or more rain

I'm not really a fan of hot weather but I do like it when it is bright and sunny. I think the cost of living crisis and the situation with energy bills meant that a lot of people had to be extremely careful with gas and electricity usage since last autumn and so we're hoping for a warm, dry and sunny summer.

And conversely, I can’t believe the number of people who can’t cope with temperatures above 16 degrees and who luuuuurve winter when they can snuggle under a cosy blanket with the wood burner churning out crap and the electricity and gas going at a rate of knots.

Still no sign of summer here - it’s throwing it down today and 13 degrees , I had to put the heating on this morning, washing all on airers.. I bought new cushions for the garden furniture beginning of July and they are still in their wrappers .

Yes, still windy, not warm and very grey. We’re supposed to be in a micro climate here, with more sun than the rest of the UK. No one told the weather though.

Quite.

We stopped calling it global warming ages ago yet people persist in believing it means we'll get hot weather in the UK. Well we will sometimes, but we'll get an awful lots of shit weather too.

Even before climate change took off we used to get awful summers sometimes. Some years just are. Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. Fair enough to moan when it's miserable but people are talking like they have been personally thwarted or cheated.

It's the jet stream and climate change. Southern Europe is on fire and we are fucking freezing. I am really sick of it. I was sooo looking forward to summer and feeling warm after a dismal and dark winter when I couldn't afford the heating bills. Now we are basically in the autumn and winter to face again. I think even I could put up with the Tories if we had some lovely summer weather. Shitty country this is.

Talking of heating bills, ours hardly went down over the summer. It's still £50 more than we were paying before all this crap landed! I presume we have to get used to it now. Sorry to de-rail the thread there!

We're not in Autumn. Summer is July, August, September, so we're only half way through it. Can't disagree that it's been a wash out so far though (which I'm delighted about cos I loathe hot weather).

You're an optimist!! I'm glad you like the cooler weather.... I am just sick of getting WET every day here in lovely London. 😡

I'm not into it.

But I am seven months pregnant, and had a real war with dehydration up until the weather turned shit.

So if the rest of you have to suffer, that's a price I'm willing for you to pay.

Bloody awful today. Heavy mist rain all day.

I went to an English Heritage site and it was fairly busy!

Looking forward to a few days of nice weather (London) as per the current BBC weather forecast. We'll certainly make the most of it.

It's been shit and I'm getting fed up of trying to find indoor activities for the kids. We had 10 days on the SE coast where we went out regardless of the weather but at home I just don't have the same persuasion to be outdoors in the pissing rain

We've spent a relatively fortune (cinema twice, HMS Belfast, indoor inflatable centre, swimming twice) plus done a lot of free things (NHM and Science Museum and Tate Modern) when usually we'd just a pick a park and head out with a picnic or go for canal walk or ride or go the local nature reserve or splash park or go to the woods. Wet weather seems to take a lot more effort as well as money.

I'm all for building resilience and for dressing weather appropriately and making the best etc but I'm fed up of it now. My kids don't want to go out in the rain and neither do I.

We do all the usual stuff at home as well -crafts, baking, lego, building camps etc but that doesn't fill the day in the same way going to St James' park does. So we resort to screens (lots more screen time than if we were out and about)