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?

I'm in Glasgow and I have the heating on today

I live on the west coast, it’s 19 degrees, overcast and there’s a cracking breeze. Braw drying day!!

[quote Newmama29]@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 😂[/quote]
Yes I still treasure my mint RBS £1 notes. Not many remaining in circulation but much better than silly coins.

I'm loving Farmer Jim 😂

It has been mentioned before, but I would be gutted if they move the school holidays back. Not least because (in non-covid times) we literally shoot off on the last day of school down to Newcastle to go on a cheap holiday in the sun before the rest of Europe breaks up. Saves us hundreds of pounds! Also, best time to hit the Med before it gets crazy hot in August.

@speakout

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

That's the Scottish education system for you , a whole country able to read and understand the national weather chart on TV and comprehend the weather report.

silver3: Of course I realised Scotland tends to be cooler than London but no, I would have not have thought it would be half the temperature at this time of year

“Half the temperature.”

Hope they’re learning some physics in the Scottish schools!

Jesus what i have just read

16c and cloudy. Heatwave. My arse

No I don’t think London is in the centre of the world. Actually, I’m from a Mediterranean country and so I know full well also that people there think it’s all fog and rain in the summer in London when, this is not the case at all. Often it’s hotter here than there and even if it’s not, it can feel like it is. In fact to be honest, once it gets above about 35 in any city you just tend to avoid outside anyway so it’s all much of a muchness.

This is why I am not one who would want to presume Scottish weather always lives up to the stereotypes either. I thought because it’s so hot here it must be at least a bit warmer than average there too and I was finding the kids flip flops in the garden and felt like I was going to pass out and I thought of the parents having to get kids into uniforms today in Scotland, because the shoes often rub. That’s all.

OP regards your questions about the impact of global warming in Scotland there has been a gradual rise in the average temperature as there has been across the UK as well as concerns about increased rainfall in winter and dryer summers, possibly just not felt as severely in Scotland yet as it is in the South. We do also experience some of the same extreme weather as down South although always a couple of degrees cooler at least - we experienced the heatwaves in the summers of 2005 & 2006 (vivid in my memory as I was heavily pregnant during the 2005 one) and then in 2007 we experienced the horrendous heavy rain in June/July which, to my memory, seemed to be the start of flooding incidents becoming a regular thing across the UK.

If you look at Spain and France where they’ve had deadly heatwaves regularly reaching the 40’s you can see a pattern of more intense heatwaves the further south you go in Europe so it makes sense that the South East feel it more that Scotland for now.

Has Scotland not noticed any changes in the summers then?

Yes, they’ve got wetter, and the rain is much heavier - torrential rather than drizzle.

Like a previous poster, I also have fond memories of the hot summer of 1976!

Its definitely been warm here on the NE coast. I find kids in school in July to be odd though . Polo shirts and shorts /skirts here anyway..delighted for their return..
Just worried- isn't everyone about the bigger picture.

As a child I went through the Scottish school system and as an adult I work in the English school system so I sort of understand where you are coming from but despite the fact we are on the same island, the weather in the two countries can be as different as night and day. My family in Scotland have just returned home from a visit here and could not believe the difference in the weather. Yesterday they were having to use sun cream, today they are back to wearing jumpers because it's a lot colder up there. We are roughly only 200 miles apart. I went up to visit one Easter and couldn't get back because we were snowed in...didn't expect that in April! Down here we are lucky if we get an inch of snow in December! Scottish people relish the week (if they are lucky) that the weather turns nice. I wouldn't worry xx

Yes Belle. I was in Paris last week and it was over 40 one day. We stood on the roof of Galleries Lafayette and my shoes were actually singing. This is what I mean by global warming being more noticeable in recent years. It definitely is.

Ah Op, you are funny! It’s 17c atm, I’m about 30 minutes outside of Glasgow. It’s also very dull and cloudy and looking like it’s going to rain any minute. I’ve found we have the nicer weather in June and July, maybe that’s why kids are off for the last bit of jun and all of July?

My kids are home educated though so school dates make no difference to me apart from The fact I can get a cheaper holiday as can go in term time :D

I was born in June '76 and I am convinced this is why I cannot stand the summer 🤣

OP, the point some people are trying to make is that BEFORE you went to the effort of creating a thread and posting about feeling sorry for children and wanting an entire country to change its school terms - is that maybe you could have googled to make sure you were correct in your thinking!

But it was hot in April

Scotland rarely has suffocating heat.

LOL - I've got a thick jumper and a little oil radiator on in my office.

Even if you didn’t check the weather difference OP, your post just sounds pathetic in itself.

People (including kids) are not made of sugar. They aren’t going to melt in the heat, the school would just work around it. Don’t expect the world to stop to pussyfoot around people because of a few warm days.

I bet if it was too cold, you’d be complaining about that.

silver3 “ We stood on the roof of Galleries Lafayette and my shoes were actually singing”
Conjured up a wonderful image of your footwear giving a rendition of Je ne regrette rien...

To be fair, I’m in north east Scotland and two days ago it was too hot to sit outside.

Have to say I haven't noticed the summer being hotter but I think we get less snow than we used to in the winter. ( NE Scotland) Today it is overcast but around 16C - dh is feeling very warm ( he overheats very easily) but I have socks on cos my feet are cold.
DH and his overheating was one of the reasons we moved back to Scotland from SE England - however he has now spent the best part of 20 years whining about the weather and how cold it is !

Some people are never happy