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To hate this English Summer and the boiling hot weather we’re having?

464 replies

IHateSummer2018 · 24/06/2018 11:29

It’s so hot! Appallingly so. I am in the lightest of t shirts and yet still sweating. I love the sun on holiday but hate it in this country, it seems more a blistering kind of heat, disgustingly so. Hope the summer ends very soon! Bring back Autumn/Winter!!

NC because people display negativity to those that dare say they hate the sun

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kateandme · 25/06/2018 19:20

the sun is lovely.but I do hate it when it gets uncomfortable.when its so still out.when even tap water seems to run warm!
when you can feel every fold of your skin because its so warm
im fully appreciative of good weather.i just don't like it when it become uncomfortable and so humid.

OFuckShitAndBollocks · 25/06/2018 19:21

It's 31 here and 7pm. Bedrooms are in the attic of the upstairs flat we live in, 2 kids in a pokey sweat box room and me, baby and DH in the other. Rooms get so hot nobody can sleep. Poor baby sweats and cries. I LOVE the sun but with bedroom AC, beaches and swimming pools and homes built to handle it! When I lived in hot countries in the past I never had a problem sleeping or cooling down. Here it's just ridiculous!!

HelenaDove · 25/06/2018 19:21

UGH the pungent smell of the down stairs neighbours weed coming through my living room window

FFS Angry

abbsisspartacus · 25/06/2018 19:23

I'm working in a scorching hot factory with broken air con (metal building loads of pc equipment pumping out heat) it's fucking hot

AimeeNoOneTheSamee · 25/06/2018 19:24

IHateSummer2018 I am soooooo with you!! Autumn and Winter are my favourite months and I get so much flack for it. I hate this weather, it's uncomfortable and I hide from it. Roll on Autumn...

GeekyBlinders · 25/06/2018 19:24

It’s too hot for me. And I don’t complain about grey days, to be honest. I only get fed up in autumn/winter/spring when it remains for more than a few days running.

It’s DP’s birthday tomorrow, and we’re going it for the day, and I’d much prefer it if it were going to be say 22 degrees, instead of the 33 degrees it was when we got in the car at 5.30 today!

GeekyBlinders · 25/06/2018 19:25

When it rains, that should say.

Robstersgirl · 25/06/2018 19:28

It was 29 in Romsey where I was today and was uncomfortably hot.

kateandme · 25/06/2018 19:36

any extremes of weather bothers me.make me feel a bit nervy and anxious for some reason.

hazeyjane · 25/06/2018 19:36

jane1956
we get 8 + months of grey horrible weather and the minute we get more than 2 days sun people complain, really annoying

To be fair I don't moan about the 8+ months (partly because it isn't grey horrible weather...)

Hayfever, heat stroke, lightheaded, too hot in everything, ds floppy, dd1 grumpy. What's to love?!

HelenaDove · 25/06/2018 19:40

abbsis if it was animals in that factory they would be prosecuted.

ItsNachoCheese · 25/06/2018 19:45

Im in central scotland, im a redheaded milkbottle and im sweating like nobodys business. Being a edheaded milkbottle i wasnt built for heat i was built for cold Grin

ItsNachoCheese · 25/06/2018 19:45

*redheaded

Ellieboolou27 · 25/06/2018 19:46

I hate really hot weather, I love summer but dislike it too hot as it makes me tired and irritated, anything over 25 becomes too hot to do anything, especially housework and cooking - great for drying my washing though Grin

Vivianebrezilletbrooks · 25/06/2018 19:47

YANBU. It's was 28 earlier here in the south west and I suffer with heat related allergies and skin problems and I can't understand why anyone would love to walk around dripping with sweat or needing a shower every time they've been outside. Not forgetting those who have hayfever or asthma. I understand different parts of the world have it worse but they're used to it though. I think even those who love it might start complaining it's too much after a few days of constant heat.YANBU at all.

JessiCake · 25/06/2018 19:48

Bloody hate it. Agree with pp who say it's OK to have hot weather when you can loung around and dip in a pool/the sea, but when you have to DO ANYTHING it's foul.

Am in London, the air is muggy and airless, the pavements are hot, the nights are vile when it gets this hot, impossible to sleep.

For those who say 'find shade,', how exactly are you expected to do that when, for example, you have to walk from A to B (and you have no choice) at midday when there is NO SHADE on either side of the street?

Don't even mention the tube or the buses.

Endless bloody sunscreen on, dousing DD in the horrible stuff at 8 in the morning, adding a full 5 mins to an already-rushed school routine and resenting the fact that though I'd like her to get a bit of early-morning sun you have to cover them in Factor bloody 50 so it works during the inevitable 1pm playtime.

It's just as inconvenient as extreme cold weather is, but you're not allowed to say it to anyone in RL because you're meant to be wafting around in a silk kaftan as if you're on holiday on a yacht when in fact you have to work, cook, clean, collect the kids from school, try to sleep so you can do it all again tomorrow but you can't sleep because your bedroom is oevr 30 degrees all night...

I, for one, was NOT moaning about the cold winter, I bloody love cold weather, it doesn't have to be (and isn't) always just raining and grey here. And I like WARM weather, and sunshine, I just can't stand this type of heat. Also (today has been an exception) British heatwaves often throw out grey horrible hot days, and not even bright cheering sunshine, so I utterly reject the argument that it's 'grey' here all winter long and that we're blessed with sunshine in the summer. We're often not.

I am a proper Scrooge, and the worst thing is you're not even meant to say so, because people start accusing you of wanting the grey rainy days back.

Almostthere15 · 25/06/2018 19:52

One side effect of being very heavily pregnant and disliking intense heat is that people expect it and are almost understanding. I don't mind at all anything up to 24 degrees but getting past that just feels unpleasant to me!

Slowtrain2dawn · 25/06/2018 19:53

We're not good at hot weather in uk or snow. Drizzle, we have that nailed.

Thesearepearls · 25/06/2018 20:05

We're not good at hot weather in uk or snow.

I'm good with hot weather! I can do hot weather. But it's somewhat ridiculous when people are saying that sub 30 degrees is hot weather. It really isn't hot weather. Just enjoy the sun and the rays and the vitamin D

I also love cold weather. I love it when Britain gets cancelled when we have 1" of snow. It's fab - just get the toboggans out and do a hike - it's wonderful.

Grinches - you're all grinches

starlight13 · 25/06/2018 20:17

The bloody summer moaners, never bloody happy. I'm in the very South East, and it is considered 'hot' only if it nudges 30 degrees. I personally wouldn't say that it was warm until it was at least 25 degrees.

Another example of people needing to toughen up a bit. A few months travelling around Africa would sort them out and they'd then perhaps realise how lucky they are living in this country.
I can see them now - you know the type - sleeping with a fan on at night (?) and then complaining about their electric bill and then in the winter you can guarantee that it is over 18 degrees in their house for months on end and they wander around in a vest top and then guess what, they complain about the electric bill. FFS.

Sparklyhousedust · 25/06/2018 20:19

I’m with the OP. It makes me feel like i’m suffocating, being so hot. Hate it.

JacquesHammer · 25/06/2018 20:22

The bloody summer moaners, never bloody happy. I'm in the very South East, and it is considered 'hot' only if it nudges 30 degrees. I personally wouldn't say that it was warm until it was at least 25 degrees

I am happy actually. When the sun isn’t as prominent or dangerous.

Another example of people needing to toughen up a bit

Do tell me how toughening up a bit would prevent me from getting horribly burnt

A few months travelling around Africa would sort them out and they'd then perhaps realise how lucky they are living in this country

Are you always so ridiculous or has the sun gone to your head?

lljkk · 25/06/2018 20:32

My folks are the worst, they can only handle temps from about 18-23 C. They live in California and seem to have lost all resilience for anything else. 24.

10 hours of bright Sun daily they can cope with fine, mind (in spite of redheadness). They take vit. D daily just in case, of course. Confused Just the temp tolerance, has become impossibly narrow.

CatchingBabies · 25/06/2018 20:35

It’s been 27 degrees here with absolutely no breeze, and I’ve worked all day having to wear my thick polyester uniform that has stuck to me. It’s been unbearable.

SleightOfMind · 25/06/2018 20:47

I’m not a fan of living and working in anything over 27 degrees but, at the grand old age of 44, have learned how to stay comfortable. Slow down, drink water, don’t wear tight or synthetic clothing or shoes.
Cook as little as possible. (I’ve bought joints of meat for DH to merrily bbq so we can have cold cuts)

I’ll forgive the discomfort for the effect it has on everyone’s mood. People are so much happier and smilier when the sun shines. It can’t fail to lift you when you’re out and about.

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