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To feel quite pissed off about the lack of summer so far

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Katekarate · 30/06/2021 22:29

Where I live it's due to rain again all next week. Not expecting it to be scorching but even a break from all the rain would be nice, with it being July tomorrow. It feels like the summer is going to pass us by without it ever really happening.

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ErrolTheDragon · 01/07/2021 08:36

We went to cornwall a few years running when DD was little, and while there were always some days good enough for the beach with wetsuits, we did run out of tin mines to dive down. (North Wales was much better - some lovely coasts but lots more other stuff to do - better walking, castles etc).

I'd not realised it had been quite this bad so far in parts of the U.K. - we tend to assume the NW will be the dampest and greyest part of England, and it's been mostly pleasant to really nice here apart from a week or two. We have had to cancel a planned trip to have a picnic with our DD after her graduation this weekend (parents not invited to the actual ceremony) because the forecast isn't good ... 200 miles for a damp walk and a soggy sausage roll didn't exactly make sense.

Sackofnickles · 01/07/2021 08:36

Anyone would think we all lived in the UK Grin

It's not been that bad!!

JassyRadlett · 01/07/2021 08:40

Could do with a break from the rain but I'm delighted with the temperatures. I'm wearing a jumper now and delighted to be doing so in July for a bit

Oh come on. You get the vast majority of the year for jumpers! Let us who can’t bear the cold have our hope of non-crap weather for a few weeks without revelling in our misfortune when it doesn’t happen…

A bit nicer today but the week ahead is more rain, more maximums hovering around 20 degrees. Grim, especially after the year we’ve had.

the80sweregreat · 01/07/2021 08:47

Love the cooler rainy weather.
I hope it lasts all of the summer and into autumn too and if it's sunny , it's only warm and pleasant and not that terrible heatwave weather we had last august which was just too much.

SoupDragon · 01/07/2021 09:06

Love the cooler rainy weather.

You get that for around 9 months of the year.

the80sweregreat · 01/07/2021 09:18

I'm in the south East and any heat waves are unbearable. Last years heat wave was pure torture! I like a nice sunny day , but it's never this , it's usually boiling or just too hot.
I much prefer autumn.

lynsey91 · 01/07/2021 09:27

@rubydoobydoo

There hasn't been lack of summer - this is just what British summers are always like! We've had a couple of weeks of very hot weather, been lovely here today too although it was a bit chilly last week. August is normally hotter than July.

Remember that year Rihanna had that Umbrella song out and got blamed for it pissing it down all summer?

Sorry but we really have NOT had a couple of weeks of very hot weather.

We had about 2 weeks, maybe slightly less, of nice sunny weather. One or two days were quite hot. Other than that we have had rain most days plus grey skies and pretty chilly.

My heating keeps kicking in because it is so chilly. I have been wearing a jumper this week and all my washing is having to be tumble dried. Jumpers and tumble dryers in June! It's a joke.

We have months and months and months of the shit grey cold wet weather that so many seem to love and as soon as we get 2 sunny days in a row they start complaining

AnyFucker · 01/07/2021 09:34

Sorry guys, I am sat in the sun here with a coffee. There is some high hazy cloud but it is already warm.

I will take my grandchild out for a nice walk later

DynamoKev · 01/07/2021 09:43

YABU Assuming you're in the UK. This is how it is. I like our temperate climate.

Youdiditanyway · 01/07/2021 09:45

It’s been ok here in Yorkshire although cloudy most days and yesterday was slightly chillier. Just checked the forecast and it does say rain for the foreseeable but I’m hoping that isn’t true, the weather app is often melodramatic.

Bythemillpond · 01/07/2021 09:57

SoupDragon

Love the cooler rainy weather

You get that for around 9 months of the year

I would say it was a lot longer than 9 months of the year. Apart from a couple of weeks when it began to dry out. It has been months since we had any decent weather and about 9 weeks from now we will be back to darker evenings and the expectation of colder weather as we descend into autumn and winter.
Not that we get autumn anymore. Just tends to be cold, wet and grey with leaves falling off the trees

It would be better psychologically if we had blue skies instead of the grey that it seems to be

DappledThings · 01/07/2021 10:05

more maximums hovering around 20 degrees. Grim
20 is a lovely temp!

TheLovelinessOfDemons · 01/07/2021 10:23

@DulseSeaweed

I’m in Northern Ireland and we have had a lovely couple of weeks. I had to get that in there as not often we can be smug about the weather….
Bet it's pissing down in Ardglass, Co. Down. They have their own little weather pocket.
DynamoKev · 01/07/2021 10:28

@Sackofnickles

Anyone would think we all lived in the UK Grin

It's not been that bad!!

Exactly - it is ridiculous living here and moaning about the weather.
DynamoKev · 01/07/2021 10:29

@DappledThings

more maximums hovering around 20 degrees. Grim 20 is a lovely temp!
Yep 20 is very pleasant.
the80sweregreat · 01/07/2021 10:31

Don't worry, by next weekend it'll be roasting.
It usually cheers up for the Wimbledon finals.

user1497207191 · 01/07/2021 10:33

Where do you live? We've just had a good couple of weeks of decent weather in North West England. Before that we had a week of clouds with one day of heavy rain. Before that, another few weeks of decent weather. We've basically had one rainy day in the past 4-6 weeks. My and OH have lovely tans, and that's from just pottering in the garden and going on local walks.

MooseBreath · 01/07/2021 10:35

Cambridgeshire here. We had a lovely week at the end of may/beginning of June, and otherwise it's been shit.

user1497207191 · 01/07/2021 10:37

@SoupDragon

Love the cooler rainy weather.

You get that for around 9 months of the year.

We really don't. I walk to walk daily when it's not raining. I've only used the car maybe 5-10 times this year. I know that because it's months since I've had to put petrol in it (I only use it for the homework as OH has a car which we use for everything else). I also record daily walking steps on my phone and the graph clearly shows which days I've not walked to walk which are very few this year to date.
JassyRadlett · 01/07/2021 10:40

20 is a lovely temp!

In spring, sure. Or mid-morning or in the evening twilight.

As the maximum temperature in summer, meaning most of the day is 19 or below? No thanks.

As I say, the heat haters get most of the year their way. Don’t begrudge those of us who like warmth our little hope of sun and heat before we go back to aching bones and cold toes!

SoupDragon · 01/07/2021 10:47

Exactly - it is ridiculous living here and moaning about the weather.

Nonsense.

The British have been complaining about the weather for generations. It's what we do. It's precisely because it's so variable and unpredictable that we whinge about it.

JassyRadlett · 01/07/2021 10:48

We really don't. I walk to walk daily when it's not raining. I've only used the car maybe 5-10 times this year. I know that because it's months since I've had to put petrol in it (I only use it for the homework as OH has a car which we use for everything else). I also record daily walking steps on my phone and the graph clearly shows which days I've not walked to walk which are very few this year to date.

We’ve just had the fourth wettest May ever.

JassyRadlett · 01/07/2021 10:49

Exactly - it is ridiculous living here and moaning about the weather.

Ah good - we’ll see no threads of people complaining about the heat during summer then? Fab.

GreenCrayon · 01/07/2021 10:59

We really don't. I walk to walk daily when it's not raining. I've only used the car maybe 5-10 times this year.

Where on earth do you live in the UK that it's only rained 5-20 times in the whole year? We've just had one of the wettest May's on record. Did you mean its not been wet and grey for approximately 5-0 days for the whole year because that seems more accurate. If not do let me know where you are and I'll start packing immediately. Grin I'm so over wearing jumpers and coats in June and our forecast isn't looking any better for July. Sad

GreenCrayon · 01/07/2021 11:00

*5-10 (damn frozen fingers are struggling to type) it's a whole 13 degrees here today and once again raining.