Why is the weather so shit?

[TeriblePerson]

Stupid miserable British weather.

Summer clothes? What are they?

Here in Somerset I have yet to get mine out. I still have my oodie to hand. I took it to wear at a friend's house the other evening as I know she'd want to sit in the garden as it wasn't actually raining.

Close family wedding 👰🤵 later today - in July they had hoped for outdoors/farm style wedding - it is 14 degrees here, dull and wet 🙈

Hope the barn is warm!

But that doesn't mean it needs to be wet, cold and grey.

Temperatures of 20°-25° and dry weather would still mean you could happily carry on without sweating, melting ot getting up early. While the rest of us could actually get out and about and enjoy the summer without wellies and raincoats.

I’m 30 mins from Bournemouth and it’s positively pissy outside??

Nope.

What strategy do you think that there could possibly be?

Either it's dry enough to harvest grain, or it isn't. The longer it stands wet in the field the lower the quality of the grain, the greater the risk of disease, the higher the chance of it falling over (and then it will never dry) and then next year's crop goes into the ground late or can't be drilled at all, disrupting cropping the following year too.

Farmers moan about the weather for very real reasons.

Why do people get so upset that other people like cooler weather. It’s really strange. Not everyone likes the same things as you. Get over it.

All of which is perfectly possible if the weather is mid 20s and we have some dry days. Why does it need to be under 20° and raining to achieve any of that list?

It’s depressing. This weekend is another washout here in Leicestershire, which is supposed to be one of the warmer, dryer parts of the country. Summer here has been two weeks of warm, dry, sunny weather in June. The rest has been overcast & ridiculously cold (May & early June) then cool & ridiculously wet (July) with no return to actual summer in sight.

I've just come across from the EU to visit for a month (I'm Scottish), and I'm loving the colder weather. It's been 26-34 degrees the last few weeks where I've been and horribly uncomfortable. Walking around in jeans and a long sleeved shirt and being so comfortable is lovely. Sleeping at night without tossing and turning. Ah. Lovely.

Can't harvest at all if it's too wet so it rots.
2 options if can be cut but too wet to store.

1. Grain dryers that cost a fortune to run so the farmer needs to decide whether it's worth it. Not all farms have dryers.
2. Hope the weather improves. But the longer it's in the field the quality deteriorates and the price and yield drop. May only be fit for animal feed. Wet weather this time of year is shit for farmers.

Next Sunday looks nice 🙂👍

@DustyLee123

its hardly this pissing it down weather or boiling hot though is it? There’s a lot in between.
surely you wouldn’t be sweating to death in 20/21 degree weather?

Same. I love having cool fresh air around me. It's energising. I find the heat cloying and makes me lethargic.

Probably because it's wet and cold most of the year. Surely a bit of sun in the summer and some dry days isn't much to ask for?

YABU. Yes it could be a bit better - but I'd much rather have 16 to 20 degrees celsius - and rain 50% of the time, (like we have been having since early July,) than 48 to 53 degrees Celsius!!! Like half the fucking planet right now.

You just wouldn't be able to do anything. You wouldn't be able to even sit in the garden reading, or go for walks, or go cycling, or go on day trips or on picnics, or to the beach ... NOTHING. It would probably kill people off, kill off livestock, and kill all the crops off ... It would be absolutely horrific.

Even last year, and the year before, when it hit 37-40C it was horrendous. Even the birds wouldn't come out. Me and DH just spent 3 weeks on the trot last July in the house in front of the fan. WTF is the point of that? What we have now is MUCH better than 40C+ (Or even 37-40C+.) Yep, 24-27 C and no rain is ideal, but you can't have everything! Those bloody 40C + temps can get tae fuck!

I can't believe, when most of May and the majority of June was absolutely beautiful (and you needed suntan lotion on every day and people got tanned and it was up into the mid to high 20s most of the time,) that people are whinging about several weeks of it being 50% rain and a bit cooler in July!

It's still only the third week in July, and we've got a chance for at least another 8 to 10 weeks of nice weather yet.. I'm pretty confident it's going to turn really nice by the beginning of August and we will have a blast of a heat wave for about a month.

Then people will be whinging and moaning that it's too flipping hot.

These same people moaning about a few weeks where it's 50% rain - after a couple of months of lovely weather (in May and June,) and who are demanding hotter drier weather, are the same ones who will be crying and whinging when it drops below 15 degrees in October and will be putting the heating up to 26 degrees C - because it's too cold moan moan whinge whinge wah wah.. 😩

I will sweat at 25, and I won’t walk my dog in 25, it’s too hot.
Cold/cool is my ideal, rain is good for the garden/water butt, so I’m happy.

I'm really hating this rain. Can't get out to do anything in the garden.

I’m catching all of this lovely free water for my garden, in the water butt 😊

We have four. They have been full to overflowing for weeks. The garden doesn’t need watering.

Presumably you don't eat anything made of wheat or barley

Me too. I've just given the kitchen a good scrub and am about to start hoovering. The heat makes me lethargic and I can't bear to use the hoover when it's hot!

Summers 2004, 2007 and 2012 were similar and they followed hot summers the previous years.

But how I feel about the weather doesn’t affect you or anyone else at all. I can feel however I want about it. I don’t like it hot, so I’m enjoying this weather.

Can't stand the weather right now. We have had a shitty, cold winter, followed by a shitty, cold spring and I was really looking forward to a nice, warm summer to stop thinking about putting the heating on for some time. I am sitting here in a thick, wooly cardigan with cold fingers and cold feet ffs.

But it's okay, the nicer weather seems to be approaching once the summer holidays are over and the kids have to be back in school...

Do a bit of googling. It's everything to do with the jet stream, which is weakened and "loopy". The UK, Scandinavia and Iceland is above a big loop and it's stuck that way. Hence the low temperatures and wind. It's a blocked pattern and everything is very static.

So the consensus on this thread from those loving this literal piss poor weather is you can moan when it's hot and dry and there's some sunshine but not when it's cold and wet for weeks on end.