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To be hacked off God cancelled summer

91 replies

Mitmoo · 20/07/2011 20:02

This is the third year now on the trot where we have hardly had a week of clear blue skys and sunshine. It's rain clouds and horrible summer weather.
Is anyone else fed up with it?

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firsttimer84 · 21/07/2011 08:58

I love this weather. Currently 31 weeks pg and those few hots days last month were unbearable! I shut all the curtains and walked around naked! Pesky hubby thought it was an invite! humph!

strictlovingmum · 21/07/2011 09:05

More like global cooling, FFS's
Mega fed up with it, I need a holiday.

RosieMapleLeaf · 21/07/2011 09:40

It's 4:30am here right now and already 29C, humidex of 39C. AC is already working hard. Hoping the power grid holds up today! Tomorrow is supposed to be more reasonable.
Am willing to host MN get-together for any 'local' MNetters without AC!

Morloth · 21/07/2011 09:44

I am pretty sure 'they' switched to Climate Change as opposed to Global Warming because really Global Warming sounds quite nice doesn't it?

Malcontentinthemiddle · 21/07/2011 09:45

Some of the comments on here read like a parody of what a stupid person who didn't know anything about climate change might say! Yes, Maurice, I'm looking at you.

ShowOfHands · 21/07/2011 09:45

The weather's largely the same every year. And every year people are surprised by it.

I've just been on holiday for a fortnight to Devon. It was Summer just as it's Summer every year. Some days it rained, some it was glorious sunshine.

Practise some indoor sports instead for the rainy days.

melika · 21/07/2011 09:47

Uk will probably have a heatwave when I go to Greece for 1 week!

Mitmoo · 21/07/2011 09:51

Goody I can offer a small house but within driving distance of Warwick Castle.

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Mitmoo · 21/07/2011 09:53

Hopefully it will be cheaper for you this year though melika.

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Goodynuff · 21/07/2011 16:31

Oh, I'd love to head downRosie, but I'm about a 6 hour drive northSad I am off to the lake in a few minutes, it is 26C with the humidex right now, going up to 46C this afternoon, along with severe weather warnings (again) for torrential rain, thunderstorms, hail and tornados.
Mitmoo If I could hop a plane right now, I would!

Goodynuff · 21/07/2011 16:33

*correction, 36C right now

RosieMapleLeaf · 21/07/2011 17:52

We're at 44C right now. It doesn't actually seem too bad outside, it's breezy, which helps, and there's some clouds so you get a break from the sun sometimes. My grass is like straw though so would very much appreciate some rain soon!

gomummygo · 21/07/2011 23:01

I'm more than a few hours away too Rosie or I'd be there! +42 right now, my laundry won't every dry properly on the clothesline as it is so humid. I'm more or less just cooking it now. Which might be all we have for dinner as I am not anxious to heat up the house by cooking!

spiderslegs · 21/07/2011 23:33

Am more than happy to do a swap - can offer you Welsh border constant drizzle, tons of castles, Hay on Wye, Mountains, Black & white timber framed houses a-plenty, lovely pubs & a seven bedroomed 18th C detatched house.

All I ask in exchange is a bit of leaf peeping.

Anyone?

Miffster · 22/07/2011 15:09

In the Caribbean here: there is a reason why people do not have Caribbean holidays in the summer.

Namely, humidity which is like being wrapped in a hot wet towel, biting insects and tropical storms. Hopeless for babies so am stuck indoors every day.

Am back in uk for 2 week hol next week. Am gagging for a bit of lovely drizzle. Can't wait to grab mclaren, rainhood, baba and a cagoul and stride out, out, out!

StopRainingPlease · 22/07/2011 20:41

Drizzle?! Some of the rain here has been absolutely torrential!

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