Where is the bloody summer?! 😩😩😩

[Darksideofthemoon19]

Literally that. When will summer start??

Lockheart, we certainly did not have great weather over Easter.

Where I live we have 16 days of continuous heavy rain and before that we had a lot of rain. Yes of course we need rain but, as I said in my post, everywhere here is sodden. Friend has been evacuated due to the river flooding. I am pretty sure we don;t need that much rain.

Also, as I said, I live in the Midlands and the weather certainly has been absolute shit. I have friends and family in Essex and while it has been slightly less shit it still has not been great.

The weather this year has mainly been rain, grey, gloomy, more rain, more grey, more gloomy, tiny bit of sun. The temperature most days has rarely gone higher than 15 or 16

It's the longest day this week. 21st isn't it? Nights start slowly drawing in after that. It always seems such a waste when the lighter nights are too cold to enjoy.

I like a good summer storm and summer rain to clear the air, but OMG will this incessant rain ever end? It was down to 9 deg in the evening one day last week according to my outdoor/indoor thermometer.

I agree. It's so cold and miserable.

I loved last summer, I was in heaven.

I think this one is worse than normal, definitely less sunshine.

Went to Bamburgh beach yesterday and was wearing a wooly hat and gloves, ffs.

Our wedding reception is outside aswell 😩 Iv hired a bell tent but still, will be crap if it rains 😩

I wore a padded coat on my birthday. I’ve never had to wear a coat on my birthday before. It’s definitely colder than usual.

Down here we had summer in February. A few days when I was outside wearing t shirts and sandals. That’s something else I’d never done until this year- wearing summer clothes in February.

That's very odd @mydogisthebest because my parents (who are in the East Midlands) had 25 degrees and sunshine over Easter. As did the majority of the country. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/20/britons-bask-on-hottest-day-of-year-as-mercury-hits-a-70-year-high

England had the driest May since 2010, with above average sunshine. Temperatures were only 0.2 degrees below the average mean - the coolest May for four years, but hardly freezing. www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries/2019/may

April was a similar story, but with a 0.7 degree mean temp above the average.

Sorry, but the recorded weather for this year has not been "grey, grey, gloomy, grey, little bit of sun". It has been more sun and less rain than usual.

We're doing work on our house and have no heating. It'll be fine, I said. It's June, I said. We won't need the heating on. Idiot.

June has been our rainy season for years now...last year was freak...dammit! Want sun back!

18 degrees is still in the 60s! Most people wear jackets and cardigans in those temperatures. I hate this cold weather. Sorry for those who suffer but you do quite well for yourselves the other 9 months of the year.

Our wedding reception is outside aswell eek. I really hope you get nice weather then. We're hoping for an outside ceremony and drinks reception, and games in the garden, but do have the option of having stuff inside if necessary. Won't be as nice though

Well then Lockheart, all the people not happy about the weather must be lying about the cold, the rain and the grey mustn't they?

I suffer from SAD and have been really bad this year. As much as I detest heavy rain day after day, it's the grey sky that is affecting my mood.

This morning it was sunny although not that warm until about 10am. It then clouded over completely and ever since the sky has been grey. I have just been outside and it is downright chilly.

Where I am the temperature was certainly not 25 over Easter. I can't remember exactly what it was but me and DH were intending to go out but couldn't and I remember not being that bothered because the weather was not great.

Lockheart, "less rain than usual"!!!! Are you serious? Look at the news. There are stories about flooding - my friend has been told she won't be able to go back to her house for at least another 2 days. There are stories about disruption to trains caused by the rain and many other stories too.

Is June 21st the first day of summer? Surely it's Midsummer's Day?

I can't decide whether I want sun or not. Last year was way too hot for me but I like the brightness and vitamin D.

Yes, @mydogisthebest, I am serious, as is the Met Office, which records these things. You will note that the statistics I gave you were for April and May. Those for June are not available yet, given that the month has not finished. Some parts of the UK are likely to see above average rainfall for June.

I have seen the news. My trains were thoroughly messed up last Tuesday morning. I don't deny last week's weather was dire, but one week of bad weather does not make an entire year, and the long-term forecasts I have seen for June suggest a mixed bag of sun and showers, but with consistently average June temperatures.

I have never said people are lying, but the perception that 18 degrees is cold for the UK is not accurate. 18 degrees is a reasonable and very normal temperature for the UK in June. And I speak as someone who is always cold and always the one wearing her dressing gown over a jumper.

The perception that this year has been grey and rainy is also inaccurate, given that the UK has had quite a dry spring compared to average. Again, the statistics I posted from the Met Office bear this out.

People seem to think we should have the climate of southern France, but that is simply not true.

haverhill

21st June is the summer solstice, therefore the longest daylight hours in the Northern hemisphere, shortest daylight hours in Southern hemisphere. Not sure when midsummer's day is.

It's not been 1 week of rain though has it? We are on the 16th day of continuous rain. I am not talking little showers. I am talking heavy rain lasting hours most days.

Also the temperature where I am has a lot of days not even reached 18 degrees.

I am now dreading Friday in the knowledge that after that the nights will be drawing in.

Oh yes to all those people on MN who say merrily "just pop wellies and waterproofs on and go to the park anyway! Kids love it!" They bloody DON'T, nobody wants to go out, it's horrible.

According to Google, Midsummer's Day this year is June 24th. It's something to do with the 'Quarter Days'. It also tells me that the idea of a 'start' to a season is fairly arbitrary and bears little relation to the meteorological reality.
I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
I've taken off my cardigan though.

It's very annoying... Even just 21c and dry/sunny would be lovely but it's just so wet. I go out in my rain mac and am mafting walking round in it but need it! Had heating on last few days, proper duvet, blow heater on in living room, jumpers.. it's mad. It seems to brighten up thurs/fri/sat here in North Yorkshire but more rain next week

just pop wellies and waterproofs on and go to the park anyway! Kids love it!" They bloody DON'T, nobody wants to go out, it's horrible.

agree.
In real life, people don't go.

Most people don't ever bother to walk to school or nursery because of the rain anyway, so play in it?

@mydogisthebest I can't see any data for anywhere in the Midlands which indicates any location has had 16 days of non-stop rain. Indeed all locations have had a number of dry days with sunshine. Even you said in your post of 13:15 that it was sunny this morning but is now cloudy.

The month of June began very warm, with high temperatures and sun on the weekend of 1st - 2nd. Rain showers began intermittently on June 7th, and then the storm hit on the 10th, giving us that horrible wet weather last week.

There was then a respite over the weekend, before rain is predicted to hit the south and east from tomorrow.

I'm fucked off with it tbh.Got back from holiday last week to rain after 28 degrees sunshine in Greece 😭

Yeah I definitely go out and do anything when it rains, it's miserable getting wet.

Where we are it rained continuously for 3 days, roads flooded etc. I honestly thought I'd slept through the summer and woken up in November!
I was hoping for a re-run of last summer. I'm fed up with wearing jumpers and taking my raincoat everywhere.

I don't necessarily want or NEED a super-hot, no-rain-for-4-solid-months, drought, everything-dying off kind of summer again. Last years was great fun for all the heat and warmth and knowing if you planned something for the following week that it would 100% be sunny. And the footie was fab, and it was great to be sitting in the garden getting a great tan, and drinking cold beer. But yeah, the severe heat/dryness did cause problems with crops and farms, and farmlands etc... So yeah, maybe summers like that are a BIT much...

But it would be nice for it to stop raining for a couple of weeks. I am sick and tired of the constant bloody RAIN now. We have not had a rain free day now for 2 months, (in my part of the country - the midlands,) and it's annoying. Everywhere is getting flooded, the River Severn is bursting its banks, and people homes are being flooded to buggary. (And not just by me, but in other parts of the UK too.)

I don't know how ANYone can be OK with it to be honest. (OR how they can try and convince people that it's 'not that bad!!!) Have you seen the bloody news?!!! It's depressing and miserable, and the constant rain is just as likely to wreck the crops as the severe dry weather. But the difference is that you can do fuck-all when it's pissing down every bloody day!

It's cold, it's miserable, it's drab, and I hate it with a passion. SUMMER NOW PLEASE!

YANBU @Darksideofthemoon19 I agree with you!