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

[IHateSummer2018]

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

Humidity is the killer folks. I think I've already said that many times before! There is nothing worse that sweating and feeling miserable. Even getting out of the shower, by the time you're dry you are wet again!

Desert heat like in Southern Spain or thereabouts is glorious. It can be even hotter than here, but it is just so much easier to deal with as it's dry heat if you get me.

Anyway, I'm not complaining, just making sure I'm comfortable. That means keeping blackout blinds down all day in those rooms that the sun beats in to. Raise them about 8pm and open the windows. That's what our Southern European cousins do, although many of them have the advantage of AirCon too, but many don't. They know the drill!

I have a packet of wet wipes (opened and topped up with water) in the fridge, and a spray bottle to mist myself all over (also kept in the fridge), and a cool flannel for the back of my neck. I stay out of it until 6 - 7pm and it is just glorious then.

There are ways!

@Ollivander84, OMG that rash looks awful! Hope you will be ok.

mydogis
You live in the Midlands and you had the heating on two weeks ago so the middle of June ? It was decent weather then .

It’s funny, I hate when the weather is hot because it makes me feel like utter shit. I don’t go on about it but feel like if I ever do mention it I’m told to enjoy it and not moan. Those who say that moan the whole rest of the year about the weather and any day in the summer where it’s not as hot as other day - same people who are always going on about summer only lasting 2 days haha Either be more tolerant of people who can’t stand the heat or quit moaning about your weather preferences 300 odd days of the year.

YANBU - but I wouldn’t want it any other way. We all have differences in what we enjoy.

Luckily for you, the summer doesn’t tend to stick around in the U.K. for long. Unfortunately for me and so many others, we wish it would stay like this for months on end!

28 here right now and it’s 5pm. In the Midlands. Loving life :)!!

I took the thermometer out into the garden today and got a temp of 47.8 in the sun. By eck it were hot for Yorkshire!

It's lovely here it's 23 degrees and 5pm. So UV down but still nice and warm.

I don't like being sticky but it's such a short period of time it's nice I just roll with it.

Dogs finding it a bit hot though.

To the few posters calling those of us who don’t enjoy this weather “idiots” - do fuck off.
I don’t cope with the heat well at all. It has been north of 20 degrees daily for most of the last two months & 20 degrees is my cut off point for being comfortable so of course I’m going to occasionally express my frustration with the weather.

And no, I’m not the same person who complains about being too cold in the winter - that doesn’t even make sense whoever suggested that. Clearly different people complain about different seasons/temps.
Personally I am very very rarely too cold in the UK. I wore a coat I think twice last winter, and I never wear a jumper over a top as I would be far too hot. 12-14 degrees & sunny is perfect for me. Or snow. I love snow.
I wish I had the option of emigrating somewhere cold like Canada or Norway - I’d be in my element!

I wish I had the option of emigrating somewhere cold like Canada or Norway - I’d be in my element!

A lot of Canada is further south than a lot of the UK and has hotter summers as well - Norway is a better bet

I hate the hot weather, I have MS and the high temperatures we are having really floor me, I am currently confined to my bed, with two fans and an air con unit blowing around me, in the same respect when it is really cold I am affected just as much, a nice 18-20° all year would be perfect for me!

Cardigan weather here - overcast all day!

U south east lot lol come over to surrey it is baking.

*I wore a coat I think twice last winter shock

You are made of steel woman grin

I am imaging you skiing in a t-shirt.*

If there were skiing in Yorkshire and I was a more active type that wouldn’t be beyond the realms of possibility!

My sister is exactly the same so maybe it’s genetic? (I’m a big bird but she really isn’t) She went to the coast this spring and there’s a pic of her and my two nieces playing on the beach. In the background there’s a couple walking past in big coats and scarves and my sister is in a vest top!

I adore summer...everybody seems happier

Not everybody!

I think this year has been particularly bad as we've missed the nice inbetweeny weather as it seemed to veer straight from below 10 degrees and rainy to above 20 in the SE.

I'm happiest at about 18-20 degrees. Warm enough to enjoy being outside and not have to wear layers but not so warm it stops you doing things.

I’m miserable as sin in hot weather!

There IS skiing in Yorkshire old love

I am not talking about the snowdome, or the feeble excuse in Sheffield. I am talking about a real life big hill, where as soon as the snow comes down, the kids are out in their toboggans, the really cool kids are out with their snowboards and the old duffers are there with their skis.

It's lovely!

I love the fact that outdoor things can go ahead in sunshine instead of everyeone huddled miserably in the rain. My colleague's retirement drinks and lunch will take place in the garden at work on Friday, and the childrens' gala and the military show will both go ahead on Saturday in lovely weather.

We should be able to control our own weather - wouldn’t that be fun!
I would have a mix. Heat would be gone though in favour of a cool breeze / bit of rain / some warm sun but you would still need a cardie type affair!

‘favour of a cool breeze / bit of rain / some warm sun but you would still need a cardie type affair!’

Haven’t you just described typical British weather? Rare we get such hot weather.

The feeble excuse in Sheffield burned down years ago Pearls

Hour and half to hospital this afternoon (car with no air con)
2 hours at hospital (hot and smelled badly of feet)
2 hour journey home (still no fucking air con)
General temperature seemed to be about degree less than the centre of the fucking sun.

Hot Grumpy Arse

The last few summers have been boiling in the South east, when I was younger, apart from 1976, the summers were cooler and we had much more rain. it wasnt this really oppressive heat we get now - maybe some humidity from time to time, but bearable.
last 3 years have been really hot.