Has anyone else given up on Summer?

[Dessertqueen85]

After another miserable weekend, I feel like packing away the summer dresses and shorts 😢

It was so dull and cool this morning when I was getting dressed for work, I pulled out the opaque tights!

I feel so depressed to be giving up on summer at the end of July😞

Anyone else feeling this way?

This is the worst July I can ever remember.

There has been a summer colder and wetter than this, at least in my area. Maybe 2012 or around that. There wasn't a single summer flower in the baskets and tubs around town and the rain was far more persistent. Maybe I noticed more because my children were smaller and needed to go out more but it was an awful summer.

I'm a dog walker. The mud is March level. It's July! I expected dry cracked dusty paths through golden wheat fields and a lovely summer tan by now. As it is the dogs are covered in mud. The van is covered in mud. I am covered in mud. It can fuck right off.

I don't remember 2012 being that bad. I watched a fair bit of the olympics on the big screen in Hyde park. But maybe I'm remembering how happy people were and projecting it on to the weather!

I love paddle boarding and went out on my board loads last year. Have only been out once so far this 'summer' , too cold and windy.

On the plus side, we aren’t burning like Greece. And our reservoirs are filling up. My plants don’t need watering, and we haven’t needed to use the fans much.

The time and money I spent refurbishing garden furniture seems a bit wasted, though. 🙄 (We weren’t planning a holiday this summer, so I had made the garden nicer instead.)

I’m quite glad I didn’t pack my thermals away. Our house is quite chilly. The electric blanket is back on the bed.

August 2012 was pretty good. The rest of the summer was awful but not as bad as 2007 which was catastrophic for Sheffield. I couldn't get to work for several days.

Was 2007 a bad year? That’s the year I started dating DH and I don’t remember it being a washout.

Some of you have very short memories. Remember thar series of summers fifteen or so years ago when Tewkesbury flooded, when the Lake District and parts of Yorkshire flooded? Sometimes we get washout summers. As our understanding of weather systems improves, we understand why. The jet stream and how it affects our weather has only been discovered relatively recently.

Some people also seem to misunderstand that the "weather forecast" actually means. Here tomorrow for example, the SUMMARY is for heavy rain. Looking at the detailed forecast or shows that it will be bright sunshine until about 2pm then rain coming in after that

Get out and do stuff and stop whinging. If you waited for good weather you'd never do anything.

Instead of Spring half term, end of May, we could move summer holidays to either June /half July or half june/July to first week in August, oe 5 months either end, to allow school children longer days and better weather.
Of course special provision would need to be made for University Freshers, although we could leave this for the Universities to administrate, I’m sure this would work a treat.

So fed up. Caravanning in Dorset since Thursday. Really pissing me off now.

Yes, it was.
Sheffield was particularly badly hit. Sheffield Wednesday was under 6ft of water, the ground floor of Meadowhall was under water, Kelham Island Museum was flooded and remained closed for a couple of years, most of Brightside was under water, the M1 was closed for several days because the dam at Ulley reservoir was at breaking point, helicopters were rescuing people of the roof of various buildings and two people died.

Once the water had subsided Prince Charles came to visit to see the devastation that was left behind. I will never forget that day when the torrential rain never stopped.

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/weather/sheffield-floods-2007-pictures-reveal-how-heavy-rainfall-devastated-parts-of-the-city-2898254

Goodness, I don’t remember all that. It sounds awful! 😞

After Meadowhall was flooded they built flood defences, then when we had torrential rain in the November of 2019 the river Don threatened to overcome these defences. Meadowhall was really busy as they were due to switch the Christmas lights on.

The switch on was cancelled half an hour before they were due to take place. By then all public transport in the area was cancelled and the roads in the area were closed as the river had risen to within inches of the top of the flood defences.

Several hundred people were trapped in Meadowhall overnight as a result.
At work we were all keeping en eye on social media and beginning to panic about getting home as several roads were under water. Our HOD rang our boss and told her to send us home. It is the only time I have been sent home from work as a result of rain.

This rainfall resulted in the devastating floods further down river at Fishlake near Doncaster. It took weeks for the floodwater to subside.
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/fishlake-flood-defences-below-standard-23690160

@RampantIvy it was awful. My mate had to sleep the night in either Asda (or possibly Toys R Us can't recall which) as people just couldn't get home!

It must just alternate because 2006 was very hot. Like 100 degrees in London hot.

Sensible post!

According to Paul Hudson it has been the wettest July in Yorkshire since 1973

This thread is so dramatic

So is the weather @bladebladebla1

Get out and do stuff and stop whinging. If you waited for good weather you'd never do anything.

This sums it up for me. We had someone cancel an beach outing yesterday because of rain and wanting to reschedule when we get some good weather. I pointed out that here it's still raining until 17th August, so they've had a rethink and are rescheduling meeting at weekend.

Doing stuff in torrential rain is miserable, and that is why we are all moaning.

If there was something I really wanted to do I would do it regardless of the weather but there are some things that are just too weather dependent to be doable in the rain - picnics, barbecues, mowing the lawn etc.

But it really is shit weather. I'm all for putting on waterproofs and getting the dog out....but you can back cold, wet, muddy and I had enough of that in the 7 months of winter we had here in the North West.

I think its the feelingbof being cheated out of the very short period of warm weather we hope to have each year. Winter drags on interminably so we long for some warmth and sunshine during the summer months. When that doesnt happen its very frustrating and demoralising.
I spent ages in the garden earlier in the year,planning and sowing and planting.
Instead of enjoying the fruits of my labours I have a wind swept,rain battered,weedy tangled mess. On the plus side,the frogs in the pond are happy...but they're the only ones.
Today am indoors wearing a sweatshirt,thick Nordic socks,warm pj bottoms and furry slippers! Eyed up the heating but resisted. It's shit.

The usual thing happened up here - scorching weather for the last 2 weeks in June then as soon as the kids broke up the weather turned to shit.
I don't dress up in waterproofs and make the most of a wet day as that's my idea of hell so I'm spending most of this holiday indoors reading and cleaning - the house has never looked so good!