Does this fill anyone else with dread

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Does this forecast fill anyone else with dread or is it just me? If its this hot already what will July be like? This is manchester aswell 😬

Yabvu, we've had endless months of cold and wet. I for one will be relishing the next few months of heat ☀️

I'm happy with 18-20 and worryingly I'm already finding it too warm at 22 degrees. I think I have PTSD from last summer when it was 32 degrees for weeks. I couldn't sleep, there was no breeze, the fan just blew hot air around, I was sweating within 5 minutes of showering, couldn't stand the hairdryer near me, the dogs fur kept touching me in bed radiating more heat. It was not a good time 😂

Where were you in lockdown?! It was raging hot from April where I am, north, and we filled a broken hot tub for the purpose of cooling down, I spent all my time outside and lived in flip flops, by September my feet had straps when they were bare!

Lockdown was in fabulous weather. Day after day of sunshine.

Unlike the weather this year which I think was the point the previous poster was making. If lockdown had had the weather up to now it would have been even more miserable!

That's what the poster is saying. If lockdown weather had have been like is has been this year it would be shit. It was made more bearable by the nice weather.

The arrogance of the sun,
and her assumption that she’s everyone’s friend

better the energy bringing thrill of the wind,
the soft embrace of the fog

@PaperSheet duh! I definitely read 'unbearable' as bearable. My bad.

Its amazing!! Everyone is in summer wear here! Couples in love everywhere etc. Big groups lunching in the public park's opposite us.

You must have been in your house with the heating on..., Because nowhere in the country has gone past 23 degrees C yet this year. Top temp in Liverpool was 20C this month.

There is no evidence to suggest that normal temperatures in May lead to a very hot summer…we could equally have a very crap summer. It just takes the jet stream to get stuck..

No I love it at this time of year and it doesn’t mean we’re in for an extreme summer again I hope.
But if in July and August I see the weather forecast with the purple zoned heat map showing 40 degrees is on its way I will be filled with dread.
Also a Northener living in the South and I keep all the blinds down and stay indoors when it’s extreme heat because I can’t stand heat like that in the UK, it’s very different with humidity etc to the same heat abroad. Hope we don’t experience extreme heat again this summer it was unbearable.

I agree that some of the temperatures we endured last summer weren't great, and I sympathise with those whose health conditions are exacerbated, but the temperatures the OP posted are in no way extreme.

I’m in Scotland - I can only dream about that!

What's going on with all these people with "stifling" houses in mild summer weather - do you live in glass and metal boxes or something?

Open your windows, draw your blinds down during the day if the sun is high.

Carpets, thickly insulated lofts, insulated walls, narrow corridors etc
I lived abroad and it was all tiles, big rooms, shutters on windows, thin walls. The difference was astounding

Sorry just seen you said mild summer, thought you meant hot days

Fills me with joy. About bloody time. We have had a very long, dark winter that has only just abated.

Fitted air con is surprisingly reasonable. Around £1500 per room - much cheaper than moving. We're investing in one unit upstairs in our huge bedroom (can share with the kids if it's really hot) and one downstairs.

You've very accurately described British flats.

I love it. Seeing the sun, feeling the heat on my skin fills me with pure joy.
I hate the cold and I just relish these short few months where it’s not grey and miserable

@Newnameyetagain45 SOME flats - we live in a thirties block of flats surrounded by gardens and trees - lovely and cool in the summer due to the thick walls and placement of windows. I don't think it got beyond 26 degrees inside even at the height of the hot weather last year.

Exactly! It’s very usual to have some pretty warm weather end May/early June. Exam season! This warmth is not unseasonable at all. Doesn’t mean it’s going to steadily climb. I hope not. Low to mid 20s is lovely isn’t it? I’m surprised people are complaining already, and I speak as someone who hates a heatwave.

I love it! Hate the cold.

@countrygirl99

And people with conditions like arthritis suffer more in the cold wet majority of the year.

I've got arthritis as well, so suffer in both the heat and cold/damp, but actually find the heat far worse.