To think this country has the best weather?

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I honestly feel like the UK has the best weather. Not too cold, not too hot and almost always manageable. I am baffled by people who complain. I used to live in California and the heat waves could be intense, with very expensive air conditioning bills and I don't miss the burning sensation you could get when you touched a black steering wheel or sat on hot leather of a car that was parked outside. I have also spent time in Lapland and lived in Minnesota, so I know what it's like to step outside in to a cold that is painful.

AIBU to think there is no reason to complain about the weather here? I love it!

Agree with the PP who said Sweden. Sweden has Scotland's climate minus the rain (but with a bit more snow). Pretty much perfect.
I live in south Germany and I dread the summer. 12 weeks of boiling weather. It's been crap till now this year, which has been awesome.

Love our cloudy cool British weather. Christ last summer was unbearably hot and airless-couldn’t wait for it to be over. I love a bit of rain,it’s refreshing.

I’m in Australia and love our weather.. a lovely hot summer perfect to enjoy all our beaches and lakes.. I couldn’t live somewhere where it wasn’t warm enough to swim.. spring and Autumn are lovely, the only time I don’t like is winter and it’s because our houses aren’t very warm so I get cold, but at least I don’t have to shovel show but can still drive the snow to go skiing etc.
some parts of the country are much more humid in summer or cold in winter but Sydney is great!

I’m in Australia too in Far North Queensland.
We do have seasons (though only 2) wet and dry.
The wet season means we have beautiful lush green tropical rainforests, waterfalls and swimming holes. Spectacular electrical storms and still lots of sunny (though humid) days mean that apart from the big monsoon summer is okay although there is of course always the risk of cyclones (though none hit us this year) When it rains it really rains- no damp mizzle here!

The dry is where we come into our own. It arrived late this year (just last week) but means our winter is warm, less humid and bright.
It’s the brightness and contrasts here I love in comparison to the grey dampness at home in Ireland.

You must be joking! It’s so grey and dreary! And the short winter days when you go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. I live in Western Australia where we have a Mediterranean climate with low humidity, it’s heaven!As for seasons, the local aboriginal people wil tell you we have six seasons not four. We have six months of beach weather a year, and average winter temp is about18 degrees. We get some cracking storms too. I do not miss British weather at all! Although it’s even worse in Ireland.

The weather is OK - although a little wet for me. The poor quality of light though is something I couldn't cope with. Hence leaving. It really affected me and my mental health. It's hard to describe unless you've lived somewhere else but quality and depth of light means more to me than high temps.

Pressed post too soon. Personally I'd take a Mediterranean climate over the UK any day. I found the grey to be crushing. I don't mind winters but I like those crisp sunny winter days and you don't get many of them for your pound in England. I've just left somewhere tropical and that was a bit bonkers but fun for a while. Heading somewhere more temperate but with low rainfall. Looking forward to that climate. Mediterranean wins every time for me though.

Nope. Too cold, too damp, too rainy and as for proper seasons - there are none. Even touristy postcards make fun of the lack of seasons here, depicting rain and dull greyness all year round.

I used to live on the continent, in mid-Germany, for a while. Now they had proper seasons: winter meant snow, temperatures usually between -10 and +3 degrees, spring was rainier, with temperatures around 10 degrees and incresing amounts of sunshine, summer was warm, but not too hot, at 22-30 degrees most of the time and sunny with an odd rainy day that meant proper rain and then it was done, not the constant drizzle we have here, and autumn was windy, colder and mostly rainy.

Proper seasons all year round, not a sudden bout of snow in June like we had in England before. No constant rain. I mean, it's May right now and it is bloody cold; we even had to have the heating on. And reliably snowy weather in winter meant the country prepared and coped - nothing needed to grind to a standstill as everything does in England because proper snow is so rare.

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I do find that MN has a disproportionate number of winter lovers and summer haters.

I have temporarily left cold, grey and rainy Yorkshire for warmer and sunnier climes, and am looking forward to not wearing winter clothes for a week.

Weather in the UK is too different to emeralds W anyway. SE seem to have it ok but up in the west of Scotland the weather is utter shit. Grey damp and cold for most of the year, I absolutely hate it. I wanted to emigrate but DP didn’t and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t bitter about having to spend my life here. I’m still hoping for a way out...

Having lived in very hot climates - and twice visited countries when there was really serious drought, I'm fine with our climate. At least in the SE, winters are generally not too bad, and spring comes early. I forget who mentioned New England, but I have a sister there and the winters are typically very long and very cold.

I visited once in at least mid April when it was full-blown spring here - lots of flowers and the trees coming into leaf - it was still like the depths of winter there - and not sunny, either.

I've just been to visit a friend in Sweden - sunny most days (not all) but there was a bloody freezing Arctic wind nearly all the time, and it still felt wintry - many trees still bare and you really needed to wrap up warm, scarf and gloves, etc. Feels so mild back here by comparison - and everything looks so lovely and green and lush.

It'd be nice if we in the UK had a month or two of really reliable summer weather, though. I think that's most people's major (justified) gripe. But I do agree about the moaners - I usd to work on the front line with the public and no matter what the weather, someone would be moaning. Too cold, too hot, too wet, too dry, too humid (which is a joke in the UK anyway, as anyone who's lived with real humidity will know!)

I was in uk for a short trip and it rained almost non stop on all three days - this is good weather?

It’s hideous. I absolutely detest our weather, weeks and weeks and weeks of grey and then add in the rain. Awful. When it’s nice and sunny it’s amazing but the grey, just depressing

Oh god no. Its awful not knowing if youre going to get a proper summer. You cant plan anything and then when it randomly fucking snows in april all hell breaks loose.

Id move to somewhere reliably warm in an instant if i could.

I like the weather we have here even if it isn’t always weather I enjoy lol.

Last summer started to become strange because the sunny days lasted so long without rain - as much as I love long sunny days I was still glad when we got our ‘normal’ weather again.

I must admit our weather is never boring. It's far too changeable for that. Easter was lovely and warm and a couple of weeks later, frost again!

Ive had the central heating on all week and its rained every single day and its may. Its depressing.

I'd like it more if we had proper seasons. I could take a cold winter if we had a reasonable summer. I don't like really hot weather but do like to feel the warmth of the sun.

As others have said, you just can't plan anything in the UK. I would holiday here more but spending money on a holiday and then it just rains every day is depressing. My worst ever holiday was around 7 years ago in Cornwall in August. It absolutely poured every single day. I got sick of getting soaked and trying to get clothes dry. We came back early and vowed never to go to Cornwall again.

Not sure if I agree about the weather in Sweden being perfect either We were there in July 2017 and the weather wasn't great. One day I had to wear 4 layers and I don't even feel the cold that much!

I think the climate in England is very nice. I live in the most northern part of N Ireland (although not at the coast) and it is noticeably colder here than it is even 50 miles south. So when we go to places like Yorkshire or the Lake District we think it's really warm in the summer.

I like the variety but I'm not a massive fan because I get horrible eczema in the winter which bleeds and hay fever from February to September. It's too hot in summer, I think Sweden/Norway would suit me.

And where I live the thing that annoys me isn't so much the general climate, it's that it changes so so quickly. Many times I have got up to a blue cloudless sky and started hanging washing out. Before I even get the full load hung out, the clouds have rolled in and it is pouring with rain. It really is that quick.

We have shit weather! At least in the East it doesn't rain ALL the time.

I say the lower Alps has the best weather - lovely snowy Winters and reliably warm and dry Summers.

It's a perfect spring day today.

The weather is so depressing the met office appear to be protecting me from the truth and trying to access their website currently causes my phone to crash.

I can't read about how grey the weather will be now but Alexa has cheerfully told me to expect cloud and possible showers (again)