To be surprised how many people don’t know you can burn on a cloudy day?

[Icepops]

Out with friends this morning. Hot but cloudy. I covered mine in suncream and offered it to friend as she had commented that she didn’t have any.
She refused and said her dc didn’t need it anyway as it was cloudy and didn’t believe me when I said you can still burn on a cloudy day!

I really think they should teach this in schools (maybe they do these days but certainly didn’t when I was at school in the 1990s).

YABU: everyone knows you can still burn on a cloudy day
YANBU: I didn’t know you could burn on a cloudy day

Theoretically yes you can but I’ve never burnt on a cloudy day and I have ginger skin. I only burn when the suns out.

I am sure I read somewhere that if a shadow is cast on the floor even on a cloudy day then there is potential to burn.

You absolutely could teach it at school. Literally it would really 5 mins to talk about sun safety. It doesn't need to replace maths ffs

Petty pan well my kids ( like I said before) have never been burned so it hasnt been a problem! It has however helped sort their eczema out.

It's only certain months of the year that you can burn on cloudy UK days.

Two hours this week on the beach on intermittent cloud after 3pm was enough to slightly burn us. But you would be pushed to get the same effect in January I think.

I always wear factor 50 but it's easy to get caught out when its later in the day and you think your covered up enough.

I never understand why some people lay in the sun with no suncream on at all. If nothing worse the sun ages your skin terribly.

Most people who get burnt do so on the first sunny day if the year, learn their lesson then forget the next year.

People should be more vigilant. I’m extremely fair and could get sunburned at night. I never do these days but in my early 20s I got second degree burns on my back, neck and shoulders by hiking in Borneo on a cloudy day. I’d run out of my own suncream so used DH’s (SPF15) and never re-applied it. I ended up at the hospital and on opioids and antibiotics.

DH’s attitude to the kids and suncream annoys me. DH himself will only wear suncream in the tropics. He is from the Med (S. France) and very dark for a caucasian. I’ve never known him have sunburn. MIL doesn’t help; she is deep mahogany after a weekend’s garden exposure in late March and never uses cream. But they both know my skin type and the kids are somewhere in between. I always have to remind them to put cream on the kids!