To prefer a summer of rain to summer heatwave if we have to choose between the extremes?

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At least we still have the bright mornings and the light nights and if I get damp it's because I haven't rainproofed myself..

It's been a lovely summer so far, 4 seasons in one day- perfect

This weather is just depressing. I just want to be able to walk without needing a jumper and waterproof

Yanbu, rain all the way please. Better sleep, better skin, my toddler's eczema doesn't get infected and ooze, I can actually concentrate on work and life.

Hate hate hate hate hot weather. We never get proper winters in the SE either. Last year it barely got below 10c all winter, it was awful.

Also I don't know where everyone else is but I'm in London and it certainly isn't cold. I'd be boiling hot if I went out wearing a jumper.

Dont like either but if I had to choose, yanbu. The heatwave was dangerous.

YANBU, I hate the heat!

The heatwave was dangerous.

Flooding is destructive and dangerous.

We should have 3 months of each season properly and equally. It's the only fair way.

Looks like a perfect day today. Lot of cloud cover now and rain overnight so it feels fresh. Sun meant to be coming out later and be 17 degrees. Still a stiff breeze too so perfect drying weather.

So a bit of sun, not too hot, no mugginess. I'd like that for a good while please.

We should have 3 months of each season properly and equally. It's the only fair way.

Actually, despite hating hot weather, I'm with you on that.

Yanbu. I much prefer this to a heatwave. I love rain but I would prefer it to be cooler. Where I am it is still warm but rainy and it feels really humid and sticky all the time

Winter depresses me. To the extent that last November I ended up on anti-depressants because I was so down. Sun recharges my batteries.

June has been exceptionally wet, cold and dull in Scotland and it's awful. There is a middle ground between a scorching heatwave like we had last summer, and what we're getting now.

The "oooh I hate summer, roll on winter and snuggling/hygge" people can FUCK RIGHT OFF. We get months, and months and months of grey, cold and miserable weather in the UK but they still grudge every warm day in summer. They can all fuck off and live in a damp, cold cave somewhere and be miserable together in peace.

MrsJBaptiste, I just refuse to use the tumble dryer when by rights I should be able to line dry it.

Obviously it costs to use it and I am trying hard to get my electric bills down after the last one I got was very high.

Christ, I hate both so much.

The endless rain is making me depressed. I like to walk to school if I can but it’s an hours round trip and I just don’t fancy it in the rain. It’s preventing lots of days out and making it difficult to keep on top of the lawn as well (currently looks like a bloody forest!). I shouldn’t have to wear my big raincoat almost every day in June either...

On the flip side, I really don’t cope well with heat. Last year I was pregnant which just made things 10000x worse. It makes me feel physically ill.

I hate both.

Well as long as you’re happy that’s all that matters. Some of us are depressed through the winter and are on vit d supplements to combat deficiency. Summer is the time when I can go out of the house without worry and my mood lifts up. I feel energetic and motivated when the sun is out.
I’m having a terrible summer. My muscles still ache, I want to sleep all the time and I’m in a constant bad mood. Im doing the bare minimum to keep our house running atm, as I have no will. But hey, all you summer haters are ok!

To the poster who said in London they have been getting only showers and then sun well good for you. Trying come to the Midlands where, as I said, we have 18 days of rain, heavy continual rain. Some days it hasn't stopped at all during the day. Other days it has stopped for really short periods then carried on pouring.

There is flooding quite close to me and a friend had to evacuate her home for a week.

I do get that some people don't like hot weather. I don't like really hot weather either. Never go abroad in the summer and last year was really a bit too hot but I still preferred it to what we have this year.

The people that like rain, grey, cold, cloudy, miserable have that most of the year and yet don't want sun lovers to have any sunny days!

I don't mind the cold really but the dark morning, the dark evenings, the dark afternoons, the constant grey and damp and drizzle are not and never will be cosy!

Some of us are depressed through the winter and are on vit d supplements to combat deficiency. Summer is the time when I can go out of the house without worry and my mood lifts up. I feel energetic and motivated when the sun is out.

I spent the whole of last summer indoors, depressed and with no energy.

Summers like that are going to become the norm thanks to climate change, so you will get your way.

Summer is the time when I hate spending long periods outside because I burn easily, my skin doesn't tolerate suncreams well, I hate feeling sweaty, it saps my energy and restricts me. Whereas the rest of the year I cam just get on with my life.

Well as long as you’re happy that’s all that matters. Some of us are depressed through the winter and are on vit d supplements to combat deficiency. Summer is the time when I can go out of the house without worry and my mood lifts up. I feel energetic and motivated when the sun is out.
I’m having a terrible summer. My muscles still ache, I want to sleep all the time and I’m in a constant bad mood. Im doing the bare minimum to keep our house running atm, as I have no will. But hey, all you summer haters are ok!

I'm the same in the summer,that's why I love autumn /winter

Summers like that are going to become the norm thanks to climate change

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that's why I love autumn /winter

Lucky that you get that for about 9 months of the year then.

Flooding is dangerous, but its possible to have a rainy summer without that happening, via drizzle.

That's ridiculous though. You get that for the other seasons anyway and it's miserable. Thoroughly, gloomily miserable.

Nope, I want 3 or 4 weeks of glorious weather so I can sit in the garden for hours.

You get that for the other seasons anyway and it's miserable. Thoroughly, gloomily miserable

But it really isn't. All this talk of there being 9 months of grey and rain is rubbish. We get loads of dry days and loads of sun throughout the year. Just without the baking temperatures.

I walk 40 minutes a day (3 days a week) to and from the train station. Since I went back to work in January I've been rained on maybe 7 or 8 times. It really isn't constant.