To feel sorry for Scottish children?

[silver3]

Imagine having to go back to school in this suffocating heat in new blazers and school shoes. I know September can be warm too but, it seems to me, there’s nearly always a heat wave like this in mid-August. My DC have been sleeping in the basement on and off for weeks because their bedrooms are like saunas. Schools don’t always have air-conditioning. AIBU to think Nicola Sturgeon should just push the start of term back to Sept?

@silver3

Well I’m very sorry and I’ve no idea what that person is on about with the haggis and I’m veggie anyway, but we haven’t slept at night, plus we were burgled recently so I’m having trouble sleeping as it is and DH is away which makes it worse. The house is like a bloody greenhouse because the UK is not set up for heat and humidity. I just saw that schools are back in Scotland today and no, I hadn’t realised it would be 16 or whatever up there.

The schools are back this week but don't think any are back for pupils today.

Mine don't go back until Wednesday (eldest on Friday) and we are back a week earlier in my area than we should be.

Normally I would be in Edinburgh wandering around the festival in this week.

@justasking111 I love West Wales in early Sept but mid August it has always rained on me!

Our seasons have shifted back a bit. When I was a kid, we regularly had snow in December and January. Now we tend to have wet Christmas' but we get show in January and February. I cant speak for the rest of Scotland.

We all know global warming is a thing. But this thread wasnt about global warming; it was about you thinking Scotland had the same level of heat waves as the south east of England. No point in now trying to turn it into an intelligent discussion on global warming.

AIBU to think that all schools in England should have compulsory Geography lessons every day based on one London poster?

Surely not... I've done my research.

Well it’s 23 here in Ayrshire it’s roasting but overcast.

THis year the weather has been better in Glasgow in May and zjune, as soon as the official school summer holidays start its been horrid.

Back to school on Wed here.

Oh, well played, MacToot

Impeccable deployment of a Farmer Jim 👍

Do people across not think that August, or summers in general, are not distinctly hotter over the last decade or so. Yes, I can only speak for the south-east, but can it really be that the difference is only being felt here?

I've moved further south in that time so hard to tell - but apparently last few years we've had more snow here than usual here and also milder winters.

I think climate wise we are getting warmer and possibly wetter here - had really bad floods - but also having colder weather spells as well.

Scottish schools always go back in August

Fgs, no I don’t think “Scotland is doing something detrimental to its children.” Some people are so literal and dramatic and read an agenda into everything.

I’ve explained repeatedly that of course you expect the weather to vary across the UK and indeed within Scotland itself. And yes, hands high - I should have checked the weather forecast. But no, I do admit that I wouldn’t have expected a difference of 20 degrees either. Funnily enough. Shoot me now!

This thread is hilarious! OP, we do get nice sunny days sometimes and I even had swim in the North Sea at a beautiful beach 45 mins from Edinburgh on Saturday but it was bracing to say the least!

I’ve been travelling to London regularly for work for 15 years and find that people tend to think of Scotland as some mysterious land where we live in huts, don’t have the internet and all play the bagpipes so it’s refreshing to come across someone like the OP that thinks we might have the same weather 😀 FWIW I’ve never come across anyone who was being mean about Scotland, just curious or a bit ignorant about life outside of London. It’s fair enough, I can see that if you live in London you can come to think of it as the centre of the world and can’t imagine anything else.

August is reliably rubbish weather wise but September often brings some nice sunny days before 6 months of the cold sets in.

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar The saying goes that if you don’t like the weather in Scotland just hang around for 15 minutes

Strangely enough though most Scots will know that the SE of England is having a heatwave............

@Newmama29 other crazy notions for you. DH is freelance and works all over the place, he is Glasgow based but most of his colleagues are in the South East. They were all doing a job in Aberdeen. They asked him if there were cash machines there, and if the shops took cards.

Mind you when he was out in Saudi he was there a few days early, the same crew rocked up and were convinced he was winding them up when he explained that there wasn't any alcohol to be had in the hotel. Plaintiff wails of "but those people are having beers!", whilst pointing at the next table where people were drinking their weird malted fruit beverage things that contain absolutely no alcohol.

Oh and when they came to Glasgow they woulnd't believe him on how to pronounce St Enoch, and all went around saying "Stennock".

There's no suffocating heat in Scotland.
Scottish Primary school uniform options in summer are usually either a short sleeve cotton polo shirt, or a light cotton short sleeve dress. No blazers.

In Scottish secondary schools the uniform is either, a polo shirt, or a cotton shirt. Blazers are optional never compulsory, and in hot weather no pupil would be expected to wear one.

Currently on day 3 of hot, sunny weather in the Hebrides.

Too true @speakout It’s always funny hearing everyone on the radio, TV, online etc going on about how sweltering it is and I’m sitting here in my jumper!

Thank you Wherrsma . The world needs more Farmer Jim.

I would feel sorry for any kids in school in a heatwave but not a problem in Scotland just now

Maybe if you had spent more time in school, basic geography wouldn't surprise you. We study weather in primary school in Scotland. Why would you come online to demonstrate your lack of knowledge? 😕

It was 30+ degrees here yesterday (South East), and well over 25 degrees indoors by late evening. My friend in Wales said it was 20 degrees where she was at the hottest part of the day.

This thread is bringing back memories of a conference I went to in Aberdeen In August some years ago. It was 12 degrees and pissing down. The team attending from California couldn’t quite compute what was happening.

@AuntyMabelandPippin

It's not exactly cracking the flags here.

But is it taps aff?

@MaxNormal I love this! It’s the same when you hand over a Scottish note in England & they look at you like you’ve just printed your own cash & get the manager to check it out 😂

@SockYarn Also cities and the coast are different places. Which will be a surprise to many people, I live in Liverpool and can walk to the beach in less than 10mins. Raining and about 22-3deg here right now.

Thank you for making me roar with laughter over my lunch OP

@silver3

Fgs, no I don’t think “Scotland is doing something detrimental to its children.” Some people are so literal and dramatic and read an agenda into everything.

I’ve explained repeatedly that of course you expect the weather to vary across the UK and indeed within Scotland itself. And yes, hands high - I should have checked the weather forecast. But no, I do admit that I wouldn’t have expected a difference of 20 degrees either. Funnily enough. Shoot me now!

Op you have been overwhelmingly strafed with bullets since page 1, but appear to be refusing to lie down. Is your ulterior motive a place in Mumsnet Classics?