Anyone else hating the weather?

[MidnightPatrol]

What is there to enjoy about this.

Its going to start to get darker again soon.

I’ve had enough of wearing waterproofs outside. I would like to sit in my garden. Maybe it would dry out long enough to do some gardening.

Id like to not be cold outdoors after 5pm - or to be honest, just in the middle of the day.

Id like to spend the day in the park or at the beach. I’d like to sit in the sun enjoying a rosé.

This truly must be the worst June on record.

I hate it.

DS is camping at Download. I'm hoping their tent doesn't get washed away on a tide of mud - and that he thought to pack some warm clothing!

We are off to Devon that Saturday . At the moment I'm seeing 19 degrees and ☀️ ☀️☀️ with a bit of ⛅️ so 🤞🤞🤞!

I hate it. I love summer and it just hasn’t materialised. It’s the grey that’s killing me - no proper sunshine or light.

However. Don’t blame the ones who love dreary weather. Blame fossil fuels. And do everything you can to reduce them, as the more we heat the climate, the worse - the wetter, stormier, more unpredictable - it will become.

July and August still might be a lot hotter.

I don't actually mind this weather but it would be nice to have a few weeks of brighter, less wet weather at least.

I've just lit the fire 🙈. We have been out for the last few hours in the rain and just got so chilled. Seems ridiculous but it is what it is. We turned the Aga off a month ago 'because it's summer' and the kitchen has been really cold with the exception of a few nice days. 🔥

Thunder earlier but it's thoroughly depressing this weather. Where us actual summer?

Totally agree with your post. I love the distinct seasons. I love cold and dark and snow ...... IN DECEMBER/JANUARY. It doesn't have to be hot in June, just warm enough to not be sitting in a tee shirt, a jumper and a fleece in front of a log fire 🙈

I keep doing a "last wash" of the oodies, then bringing them back out. I turned my light on to read at 3pm this afternoon. I'm actually contemplating artificial grass because you can never cut the lawn, nor stand on the bog it has become.

It doesn't stop me going out and stuff, but it would be so much nicer to do it in a dress and sandals!

I’m not a hot chocolate cosy snuggler necessarily, but I just think there’s nothing any of us can do about it (except try and look after the planet better if this unseasonable weather is a symptom of climate change). So it’s pointless getting vexed about it 🤷🏼‍♀️

I'm a self proclaimed lazy blanket festerer (under one right now) and I don't like hot weather over 25 degrees really, but even I've had enough. It's just relentless and miserable now. It's almost the solstice and will be getting darker in the evenings again soon!

I agree OP. I'm a self confessed autumn/hotchocolate/rainy days fan BUT I need a bloody summer so I can appreciate and look forward to autumn and the change of weather. It's just been endless dreary, rainy, windy days and this year has flown by. I'm ready to moan about the heat and sunburn etc then be excited for dark nights and halloween

Anyone else totally adjusting expectations now? I'm like, oh amazing it's going to be 14 degrees and sunny tomorrow, hooray!! I'm just desperate for sun, I'll take any sun... To hope for actual heat seems like such a fantasy at this point!

All the people saying the nights will be drawing in soon are making me anxious, please stop 😭

Do you? Not where I live. It’s not cute little kids dressed up in Angel wings batting a ballon to each other; it’s kids with no boundaries whacking balls off fences, booting fences. Total nightmare in the summer

Yes to adjusting expectations, but I think that’s a a positive thing! How nice to be able to feel a bit joyful about 14°. Helps us appreciate what we have instead of feeling cross about what we can’t have.

The longer term forecasts seem to suggest warmer, more settled weather could come for much of July. For once it might be summery when the schools break up- often we have a ridiculous heatwave in May/June and then it turns to shit for the school hols.

I know a bloke who is an agricultural contractor. He has been doom and despondency for the last month.

I am fucking sick of it. We had three downpours today. I returned from dog walks five minutes before two of them burst out of the heavens, so it could have been worse.

@Waitingfordoggo you give me hope!!!

My phone keeps serving me those “on this day last year” photos, and it’s all summer frocks and beer gardens. Right now I am in joggers, an alpaca knit, and big chunky socks my friend’s mum knitted for me. Peak November outfit really.

I’m going for dinner with a friend tomorrow at a place which has a lovely beer garden. Last year we’d been twice and sat out with food/drinks. Tomorrow I have made a booking for inside and hope it’s by the fire.

Yes. On this thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5094842-anyone-else-loving-the-weather?page=3&reply=136055103

Why people want it to be cold so they can do things to get warm year in year out baffles me.

I don't get it either. They don't like being warm, so why do they need a blanket and hot chocolate?

When (I hope it is when and not if) we get some warm weather I will positively gloat on the I hate summer threads. The summer haters don't seem to be aware of how lucky they are that they only get a few days of uncomfortable weather (for them), while those of us who hate this kind of weather have to endur it for most of the year.

I felt really hopeful in April thinking, it's nearly May, 4 months of nice weather to Look forward to. There's been maybe 4 nice days since then? So so fed up of it, just relentless cold, wet, grey weather. It hailed today FFS. TWICE!!!

Its blowing a gale outside, feels autumnal. Really sick of it.

I saw a meme today saying something along the lines how exciting it is to have lighter evenings at least we get to see the rain for longer.