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Anyone else loving the weather?

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VintageBrass · 11/06/2024 20:22

I'm so enjoying the cooler than normal weather. I can spend more time in the garden without getting hot and sweaty. Love sleeping in a cool bed. Can go for nice long walks. Less noise from neighbours. Win. Win.

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AllOfOurGoodTimes · 17/06/2024 08:29

ForGreyKoala · 16/06/2024 22:10

Judging from the hot weather hating posts I read on MN I suspect that most of these posters are very introverted and don't like going outside very much. There is a much higher proportion of of this type on mumsnet than in real life.

Never a truer word was said! MN seems to attract the very introverted who can't cope with face to face interaction, but are more than happy to hide behind a keyboard and tell us all how they hate hot weather, having to actually go into an office, can't deal with unexpected door knocking or phone ringing, can't possibly socialise with their colleagues etc. etc. and act as though that is perfectly normal and the rest of us are wrong. Thank goodness for real life is all I can say!

Yet here you are, on mumsnet. It’s a wonder you can stand to be hereat all. 😉

RainbowZebraWarrior · 17/06/2024 09:27

BinLolly · 16/06/2024 18:06

Yes people have posted that article already. Did you read it. Here's some pretty relevant passages:

The Met Office said the month’s high average temperatures were influenced particularly by warm conditions in the northern half of the UK, and by high overnight temperatures.

The UK also had its wettest spring since 1986 and the sixth wettest on record, the Met Office added. An average 301.7mm (11.87in) of rain fell on the country across March, April and May, nearly a third (32%) more than usual for the season.

On the tail of the world’s hottest year, and the UK’s wettest 18 months on record, we have the UK’s hottest spring on record, and it’s still wet.

The headline is just that, a headline. When you delve into the actual article it tells a very different story.

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"Yes people have posted that article already"

Yup. The OP and now this poster defending the OP have posted that same article.

Remarkably similar posters. Astonishing!

ForGreyKoala · 17/06/2024 10:14

AllOfOurGoodTimes · 17/06/2024 08:29

Yet here you are, on mumsnet. It’s a wonder you can stand to be hereat all. 😉

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Yeah, I really wonder why I am sometimes (most times). There are a lot of strange people in MNland, it's really totally divorced from real life.

Time to get back amongst normal folk I think 😉

Delatron · 17/06/2024 10:48

Honestly, I have never met one single person in real life who has said ‘I’m so happy it has been cool and rainy non stop for 11 months. All this flooding has been great, I’m so pleased all those outdoor events have been cancelled…’

The sun is out today and everyone I have seen is so much happier.

RampantIvy · 17/06/2024 10:51

Cloudy here, but no rain forecast. I'm hoping to get the meadow lawn cut today.

Ohgoodlord · 17/06/2024 14:13

Delatron · 17/06/2024 10:48

Honestly, I have never met one single person in real life who has said ‘I’m so happy it has been cool and rainy non stop for 11 months. All this flooding has been great, I’m so pleased all those outdoor events have been cancelled…’

The sun is out today and everyone I have seen is so much happier.

No one has said they enjoy the constant rain. The cooler temperatures yes, the rain no.

Iamtarticus · 17/06/2024 14:21

I think cool temps and no rain is perfect.

Namechange746498 · 17/06/2024 16:33

Delatron · 16/06/2024 17:29

No I just have a lot of empathy for people who are suffering. My mental health is ok. I’m looking forward to it warming up next week. But it is really getting lots of people down as it has been relentlessly bad since last June. How do you think the farmers are getting on? I think is such a shame when outdoor events that have been planned for months have been cancelled.

We’re probably all massively vitamin D deficient too. It has an impact. Those that enjoy lying under a blanket don’t seem to appreciate that. Such an ‘I’m alright Jack’ attitude.

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I can see how it does affect others' mental health.

But to say that it's been cold, wet and miserable since last June is a slight exaggeration... July was mostly warm and had a few hot days (sports day at the DC's school was awful 🥵) Can't really remember August, but fair enough if it was colder. September however was boiling! And October was really nice too - the DC went in the sea towards the end of the month!

Tumbleweed101 · 17/06/2024 16:40

Has been lovely today where I am.

Delatron · 17/06/2024 17:28

Namechange746498 · 17/06/2024 16:33

I can see how it does affect others' mental health.

But to say that it's been cold, wet and miserable since last June is a slight exaggeration... July was mostly warm and had a few hot days (sports day at the DC's school was awful 🥵) Can't really remember August, but fair enough if it was colder. September however was boiling! And October was really nice too - the DC went in the sea towards the end of the month!

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Nope. June was nice for a few weeks. I’ve added details of July 2023. ‘In contrast to June, July will be remembered as a cool, dull and wet month with strong winds.
’There were no prolonged settled spells’. There may have been one warm day but I don’t remember it! It most certainly was not ‘mostly warm’.

Then August was largely shit and cool. Random heatwave im September to be fair for about a week. But I would call that a pretty shitty summer.

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Delatron · 17/06/2024 17:30

October 2023 was the second stormiest on record… how people misremember!

Delatron · 17/06/2024 17:31

And October 2023 was the 6th wettest on record. Hence all the flooding…

RampantIvy · 17/06/2024 17:44

July was mostly warm and had a few hot days

@Namechange746498 Not where I live. It was the wettest July on South Yorkshire since records began. We had two nice weeks on June, some warm days in August, a week of hot weather in September and a few random warm days in October.

It really has been cold and wet for most of us for the last 11 months.

Delatron · 17/06/2024 17:54

‘And October was really nice too’

Apart from Storm Babet and Storm Ciarán do you mean? They caused loss of life and mass flooding? There was 40% more rainfall than normal in the Uk last October due to the position of the jet stream. The odd nice day does not mean the whole month was nice.

RampantIvy · 17/06/2024 18:05

Babet knocked the top off the lighthouse in South Shields. They had never had anything this fierce before.
Days after the storm it was warm and sunny.

cardibach · 17/06/2024 18:13

Whinge · 13/06/2024 20:36

Since when is heavy and persistent rain, gusty winds and constant grey skies considered normal weather for summer? Confused

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Exactly! In my memory it was always warm and sunny in my childhood summers (late 60s/early 70s)

Iamtarticus · 29/06/2024 10:00

I'm listening to the rain on my conservatory and loving the cooler temps today. I think one week of heat and sun is enough for me.

cardibach · 29/06/2024 10:11

You’ve had a week? We had 2 days.

Delatron · 02/07/2024 18:12

Yes it’s so lovely to be freezing again 🙄. Have an outdoor event on Thursday now I have an outfit headache as I don’t want to be cold. What a shame.

We had 2 days of warm weather.

Iamtarticus · 02/07/2024 19:34

Its not freezing. Just pleasant

DappledThings · 02/07/2024 19:45

It was great this evening. We had an event on the beach for cubs and it was a tiny bit drizzly but warm without being at all too hot and no need for missing about with suncream. Much better than it being sunny all day so we melted

RampantIvy · 02/07/2024 20:45

Iamtarticus · 02/07/2024 19:34

Its not freezing. Just pleasant

No it isn't. It's cold where I am. It didn't rain today so I managed to cut the (damp) grass. It's currently a cloudy 12 degrees, which is too chilly to be pleasant. I am wearing a vest top, a shirt and a cardigan with jeans.

I want to be in a summer dress.

cardibach · 02/07/2024 20:53

DappledThings · 02/07/2024 19:45

It was great this evening. We had an event on the beach for cubs and it was a tiny bit drizzly but warm without being at all too hot and no need for missing about with suncream. Much better than it being sunny all day so we melted

Yes, drizzle on the beach is soooooo much fun…

DappledThings · 02/07/2024 21:33

cardibach · 02/07/2024 20:53

Yes, drizzle on the beach is soooooo much fun…

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More fun than blazing sun and having to ensure 10 other children are covered in suncream and hats and all that faff. They had a brilliant time and I was more relaxed than I would have been in hot hot weather.

cardibach · 02/07/2024 21:47

DappledThings · 02/07/2024 21:33

More fun than blazing sun and having to ensure 10 other children are covered in suncream and hats and all that faff. They had a brilliant time and I was more relaxed than I would have been in hot hot weather.

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I’d have gone home. Drizzle is miserable. Sun cream isn’t difficult, and neither is creating shade.
Edit: there’s also middle ground between drizzle and so hot and sunny life and limb cone under threat.