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 😬

Errrr, no. It's almost June and the temperature is in the low to mid 20s. What's the big deal?

Nothing to see here ... YABVU @Ghgffgh

It's been so grizzly and grumpy (the weather) so far this year, that I LONG for summer. Long hot days... 30-35 C, baking days, balmy nights, days on the beach, cold showers, trips to the parks and woodlands, picnics, and beer garden nights. BRING IT ON!

Ha this isn't hot at all. , gorgeous but but barely out of jeans weather

I am a winter person and last year was hideous. That furnace also murdered some of my established plants. Already it's hot and clammy and I really hope it doesn't indicate another red hot summer!

Also, that is my selfish opinions, of course, I am happy for those that the heat brings comfort to.

Where are you where it's not and clammy right now?

It 's currently a breezy 12 degrees where I am, and that is by no stretch of the imagination hot and clammy.

Currently 10 degrees. Night time temperatures forecast around 6-8 degrees over the next few days. Definitely not hot and clammy..and I’m in the SE.

I'm with you op, I am absolutely terrified if having to go through 40° heat.
We have finally put up curtains (we'd just moved house last summer) and my goodness we didn't have curtain rails up or curtains. It was unbelievably hot upstairs and just having a wee was a massive job. The kids were crying constantly and we all had to sleep downstairs.

I'm hoping to plant some plants to trail along the house, with the aim of keeping the heat in in the winter and the sun out in the summer.
I'm also running myself ragged building a pond for the wildlife. I'm very conscious of the amount of wildlife we lost last summer.
It wasn't too long ago flying foxes were dropping dead out of trees in Aus. The same happening to the birds and hedgehogs and everything else here. VERY worrying. Remember to leave shallow dishes of water out for wildlife (shallow to stop drowning or if you want something deeper like me, put some sort of ramp in so creatures can climb out.

I am so wondering where it is got and clammy!

This thread is hilarious, people panicking over perfectly normal, in the UK, early summer weather.

It fills me with joy :-)

Hot? That's hardly hot? I'm not in the UK, but I got married in mid-November, equivalent to your May, and it was 30o for days on end. We had a 29o day in October last year. (And no, I'm not in Australia)

Don't worry OP we are holidaying in the UK on the 3rd the weather will surely get worse 😂😭

Yanbu, I suspect we will hit the 40s again this summer

It’s a bit embarrassing really when people bang on about how hot it is, particularly when it’s perfectly normal weather like it is at the moment. I have relatives in various places across the world and they laugh at us.

@Dagnabit So envious. When I was 14 I went pony trekking in the Brecon Beacons for half term with a group of school friends and a teacher at this time of year. It was my first time away from home on my own and I was very excited. I was told it always rained and was chilly, but I didn't care because I was horse-mad, not a sunbather.

My mum didn't give me sunscreen, because why would I need it? Instead, she packed waterproofs and warm clothes.

They had a heatwave. It must have been in the 80s and there was no shade. I had a vest top under my sweatshirt and stripped down to it but I had to put the heavy sweatshirt back on because I could feel myself burning. The sweatshirt was an old scraggy one retired to horse riding, so the sleeves were too short. My upturned wrists burned really badly as did my chin which was poking out from under the peaked riding hat. It turned into one huge blister.

Even though it was only on tiny bits, I burned so badly it was the only time I've ever had sunburn. I never wanted to do it again.

But despite the pain and the blisters, I loved that half-term holiday. The landscape was beautiful. I'm from Essex, which has its pretty parts, but had never seen anything like Wales.

Have a great time and I wish you the fantastic weather I had all those years ago. I know you'll pack the sunscreen.

I think it's because 20 really cannot be described as "hot". People faffing about the "heat" when it's cooler than the setting on most central heating come up as a bit precious.

Many countries famously experience genuine heatwave and it's unbearable and even unsafe. The UK is hardly one of these countries. At worst, we have 2 or 3 "hot" days and we must keep curtains closed when it's sunny.

Can those of us who like the cold weather do the same in reverse then and laugh at you for not coping with the cold, after all Norway has it worse.

I assume you weren't around in 2018 then?

It's Mumsnet competitive fretting. It makes some people feel special.

Same with all the smug threads at the moment about ultra-processed foods with people tripping over themselves to declare they all cook from scratch and their child has never seen a Wotsit.

Actually, even Scandi countries struggle if the snow is out of season. Last spring DSs usually 15 minute journey home was 2 hours in when the bus slid down a hill and buried itself in a snow drift. Snd I think you would count Finland as pretty used to snow, after all , he can sometimes ski directly from his apartment block.

No love it. Means our solar panels are producing lots of free electricity and we get paid lots for it from Octopus! Also at the moment we are on holiday in Northumberland and the weather is lovely.

Nope, my winter depression has lifted and my heart lifts every morning to see sunshine and blue skies....when l am old l shall spend winters somewhere sunny!

In Britain we live in a maritime climate with mild, mostly damp, weather with few extremes of temperature.

People bang on about how the people of Scandinavia or Canada cope so well with extreme cold when Britain grinds to a halt.

The truth is, it's not worth it for our local authorities to have snow ploughs at the ready when they'll stay in the garage for 350-odd days of the year. Do you want to pay for that in your council tax or would you prefer more rubbish collections and libraries?

Similarly, people bore on about 50 degree temperatures in India and the Middle East and how people there cope much better than in the UK. They do, because they know it's going to happen for weeks or months. And they know crops will fail and people will die and it will cost a lot of money in air conditioning and irrigation.

In Britain we live in a mild, damp, grey, rainy climate that lots of people round the world with their extremes of heat and cold and tornados probably laugh about when they come here, and they do come because there is more to life than hot weather.

But when we've got it for a few precious weeks, it's glorious. I'm looking forward to summer when it starts.

You do.

on every thread where people say they hate it, along come the hot chocolate drinking, cosy snugglers.

I mean it happens every year from about October so sure, knock yourselves out.

I totally get that some people don't do well in the heat, and I wouldn't disparage or lock anybody for it. But I'll admit to being a little irritated about people wishing away the warm weather the second it hits 18 degrees - you live in a country where about 80% of the time you get your preferred weather! Feels like people have the need to piss on the chips of those of us who do like the warmth and get precious little opportunity to enjoy it here...