Feel I missed summer 😔

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I'm feeling so sad at the end of summer and the looming cold and grey. I don't know why but I feel like I didn't experience a proper summer this year. While not quite as bad as last year, it only got truly warm in my location for about a week and I was busy for most of it. And it was only "hot" as such for four or five days in total (I'm aware the south east had it better).

It was last night when I accidentally misjudged the darkness when out running that it really hit home...dark at 8 again. I miss the glorious carefree running at 9!

If I had another three months of June/July weather that would suffice but alas...

It's really ever since the pandemic that I feel panicky or anxious about missing out, I think it's because I truly did miss out then.

Anyone else?

It’s been a lovely summer here & we’ve spent a lot of evenings in the garden. Regional differences I suppose.

Where is "here"?

I've not had any BBQs, not put the badminton net up, not once been swimming in the sea (despite living within walking distance!) not sunbathed, not worn sandals, not bothered to buy the thermos flask for keeping water cool in the car, that I had intended to get... Also not seen one single reptile and barely any butterflies.

I love autumn but only after a proper long hot lovely summer. I feel really desperate! I'm tempted to join a volunteer group abroad for a few weeks but even if I don't have to pay for food and accommodation I'll have the flights to worry about, not to mention the lack of income! I feel like I just can't bear another winter though.

No I live in the north east, and had a week in North Yorkshire that was sunny most of the time too. The couple of days I was in the north west, one was really sunny (evening BBQ in garden, suncream needed) and one pissed it down. I have been abroad for the last week though, perhaps it rained all week and I missed that, but I’ve been here the rest of the school holidays.

I normally like September but I do actually feel down about tmomorrow.

🤣🤣🤣 OK!

Too brief some of July, and about 2 weeks of August, luckily off to Spain for a few days

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After a UK summer, I'd be tempted.

Autumn is my favourite season but after a long hot summer ideally when it's nice to feel cooler!

I totally get you OP . I'm in outer London and it has been a really disappointing Summer here too. Yesterday I went to watch the cricket at Lords - the weather was so dull they had the flood lights on from the start at 11am and stopped play early for bad light! It was breezy and quite chilly for most of the day and I wished I'd had a hoodie on!
I haven't worn my flipflops even once this summer. IMO a good British summer should have several weeks of sunny weather 25°-30° but this year we've just had the odd day or 2 here and there.

It turned into a nice August where I am and I’ve just had a UK holiday and it was gorgeous all week. However it pretty much rained constantly from last November til the end of July so I’m not ready for autumn yet and a return to the wet and dark. Usually by now I’m excited for autumn. Feels a month too early this year.

The west of the UK Scotland, Wales, England has had a rotten weather system. Not much rain for my bit of Wales but temperatures rarely reached 20c and day after day of grey skies.

Yesterday was a scorcher, today woke up to drizzle again.

I refuse to accept it's autumn until October and am looking at holidays in the sun.

It's been terrible in NI. Really wet and windy all summer with the odd random sunny day but often marred by strong (cooler) winds. Visited a friend in the Sth of France for a weekend in early July. At that point, the weather was unsettled there too. (Friend said it was the worst summer in 30 years). I like autumn but, as others have said, after a decent stretch of warm weather.

I’ve just looked at a weather report and it’s said that this Summer has been wetter and duller than average.

It's been a really strange year overall and we too have had a bleak summer. Feels like the last three months never happened.

I miss proper seasons as well. I'm not a fan of hot weather but I do like to see the sun; I remember last September looking forward to sparkling autumn mornings with the sun melting the frost, misty October mornings, instead we got grey gloom & endless rain. I felt cheated. I hope we get something better this year, but I'm not optimistic. It's wetter & milder, and I'm betting on a wet, mild, windy Christmas Day again! I remember in the early 80s how bitterly cold it was in November, coming home one night with frozen droplets of moisture on my coat after a heavy fog. And the heavy snow!

And yet there are lots of people insisting the shit weather is a figment of our collective imaginations!

Probably the same posters who get palpitations at the thought of temperatures going into double figures.

I feel the same way too. Apart from a couple of weeks in May/early June, we have barely had a summer. July and August were terrible, cold (for the time of year) and wet most days.

I'm not the kind of person who looks forward to Autumn. I hate the darker nights and mornings and my depression gets worse in Winter. So I basically spend all year looking forward to Summer.

We have had no family garden get togethers and the barbecue has been barely used.

It's depressing.

Another midlander here and I agree with the other midlander it’s been absolutely shite here, even when it’s been dry and supposedly hot it’s been windy with it ( and I don’t mean a gentle summer day breeze)

We have only managed to be outside twice in the evenings and that’s only until 7ish as it dropped cooler after that and one BBQ, I will say on the days the wind dropped we could do things but it’s definitely not been long lazy summer days and evenings here

@TonTonMacoute Same here! I think even last year's was better than this one, as although it started raining in the middle of June, at least it was sunny, dry and warm from mid April to mid June. This year in Ireland we have had not one day I could describe as "hot", very few that were even warm, at least some rain nearly every day except yesterday and the day before and the wind has been so chilly at times, I've had to wrap up in winter clothes and been very tempted to light the fire! In over 6 decades on Earth I can't recall a summer so windy and chilly.
OP it's not just you who has missed out. The entire populations of Ireland and Britain have been deprived of a real summer. At least in Britain ye have had SOME hot days- we in Ireland haven't even had so much as ONE this year!

The summer has been dire here in the Midlands, it was also dire in Cornwall during the week we were there. It was also dire in Brittany during the week we spent there, it was not far enough south to escape this terrible summer. We’ll definitely go further south next summer and will never go to wet, cloudy, misty, windy and nine and a half hours away by car Cornwall ever again. Or Brittany.

as although it started raining in the middle of June, at least it was sunny, dry and warm from mid April to mid June.

Where you are.

Last year there was an East West split. We are on the east of the Pennines and had a very cold spring last year, two hot weeks in June, the wettest July on record, a reasonably dry August, a hot week in September, then constant rain from then until mid July this year.

We have had about 6 weeks of OKish weather since mid July and now it feels very autumnal.

Dull, cool. Similar to 1977.

It's the greyness that's been the worst part. I don't mind cool, but I really need blue skies and light to reset the SAD after a long winter and I don't feel we've had that at all