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 Scotland and I’m in my back garden in a bikini just now. It’s love,y and warm but definitely not too warm for school.

@SugarHour you don’t all live in castles??? You’re destroying my image of Scotland. You’ll be telling me you don’t all keep huge dogs next. Or have fabulous ginger beards.

Oh dear OP. This is why you shouldn’t start a thread on the basis of a stray thought without doing a smidgeon of research e.g. checking the weather forecast. I always assumed Scotland had different term dates because they have different weather patterns from the South of England. I have an inkling that term dates are related to busy farming times (except for the ones that are religious festivals), which is related to weather patterns.

It is 21 here today. I managed to go to school in a wool blazer that i was only allowed to remove for P.E, cooking, woodwork and metal work wether it was sunny or i was soaked to the skin . The children will survive

We have yellow weather warnings for tomorrow /Wednesday, torrential rain thunder and lightning. Apparently the schools are going to try to do as much outdoor learning as possible. So that will be 3 days per year then.

OP, im in Newcastle (as in...yknow in England) and it's 18° and overcast. I've got me hoody and thick trackie bums on.
I'm always amazed by this southern mindset. The UK is more than just London.

Pretty cold here today, if the weathers nice the kids do outdoor learning in the school grounds. They have shady bits under trees and chopped up logs for seats. It's rare to to go past the school on a dry day and not have at least one class outside. This year there will be even more time outside as less risk.

Layers are your friends as weather can be changeable.

Also there is no need to be rude and get into the whole “southerner” thing. If you must know, I wasn’t even born in the UK. I am obviously not only talking about today fgs. I’m talking about weather in general.

There's a Londen centric news bais in national reporting - so it's probably given you a false impression.

However there are some truely lovely bits of the UK -Scotland and Wales Lake district and many more - breath taking countryside and great historical towns and cities.

Some small areas can have micro climates - which can be good and bad so it you do travel and it's worth doing - check out the Met Office forcasts for the postcode and local area so you're prepared.

But they doesn’t mean I should presume that Scotland has permanently shit weather does it? I was just unlucky those times.

To be fair, if you were going to assume anything, this would be a more accurate assumption than assuming poor little Glaswegians are roasting in their wool blazers in 30 C heat!

I think what I noticed most moving back to scotland after time down south was that nights were so much more pleasant. When we lived in Berkshire the nights in a summer heatwave were just unbearable, I was pregnant through a hot summer and hat to do all the crazy stuff like sleeping under damp sheets, taking a cold water bottle to bed, fans, the lot.

Even on a really hot day in Scotland (and I mean 25c, 26c) the temperature drops to a manageable temperature at night. Probably because we're nearer the coast and there's more of a breeze but in hte 13 years we've lived in this house, i've never had a whole night when it's been too warm for a summer duvet, or I've needed a fan blowing on me all night.

The rarely spotted haggi, just roamin’ in the gloamin’.

Haggis worrying is an offence in Scotland, OP. Just in case you’re planning a wee trip north to our sun-kissed shores and thinking of bringing your dug.

@silver3

I don’t know why some people feel the need to be unpleasant or defensive. As I said -

1. I am not only talking about today, but August in general.

2. Obviously weather varies across the UK, but I hadn’t realised by how much.

3. If people are telling me the average weather in Scotland in August is in the teens, then obviously, you know better than me. I just didn’t think it would be that dramatically different, as a trend, that’s all.

You didn't think to maybe google average weather in Scotland in August before you started lambasting them for their school timetable and demanding they change it? Feet out of the genepool, please.

@Nicknacky

I’m in Scotland and I’m in my back garden in a bikini just now. It’s love,y and warm but definitely not too warm for school.

Really? whereabouts are you?!

Is this time for the "Edinburgh is further west than Cardiff" mind-blowing fact?
Nooooo this can't be true. If I fly Edinburgh to Bristol the plane definitely goes down-and-to-the-left. In my head at least.

Northumberland (so, technically, England)

17 degrees here and raining

If you want the schools to restart in September, then you must realise that schools won't get out until late July to do so. Another hot month.

Pick your poison.

Scotland doesn't have permanently shit weather, but it is a regular joke that it is pretty shit a lot of the time.

1976 was a hot summer. I'm old enough to remember it So was 1977.
I got 'a good tan' on holiday with my friend on the Ayrshire coast. We went doon the caravan.

LOL! oh bless the naivety of the southerners.
Also in Scotland and thinking it's a bit chilly indoors today. My heating which is set to come on at 20degrees kicked in before i got up this morning.

Roseburn South West Coast. My phone says it’s 21 degrees and my garden is quite sheltered so it’s a bit warmer out here.

Even Cork to Dublin, which is 180 miles has a wide difference in weather at times, but the daylight gets me every time.

This reminds me of the poster a few years ago who asserted that no-one in the UK lived more than 50 miles from an Ikea.

At least Ikea stores aren't mentioned after the news several times a day like the weather is.

And there was the English acquaintance who had no idea that the east of Scotland is a lot drier than the west. I wouldn't have minded her not knowing, but she told me I was talking rubbish.

Scotland is a pretty diverse country too, by the way - the weather in Aviemore might not be the same as the weather in Dumfries.

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.

Oh. Dear. 🤦‍♀️

Why start a thread about something you clearly know nothing about?

because the UK is not set up for heat and humidity.

And there you go again, OP. Most of the UK - outside a small portion of south east England - do not NEED to be set up for heat and humidity.