Would 100% prefer a heatwave over this bullshit weather!

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MomentOnTheLips · 03/08/2023 03:45

I've been thinking this for the past week but kept reminding myself of exactly how stuffy some days were last year.

However, with it being wet, windy, and only 14° at it's very hottest today I can comfortably say I'd suffer a few 30+ days just to get the nice ones in the 20s.

Left the bathroom window open a crack after showering earlier and have had to get up and close it as was getting really chilly. I'm now in bed with thick socks on and a heavy duvet. Summer my arse! Bring on the global warming IMO. 😂

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Thebestwaytoscareatory · 04/08/2023 10:23

user9630721458 · 03/08/2023 20:49

@Thebestwaytoscareatory That's interesting. I'd always assumed the UK would get hotter. Are you saying it will get colder and wetter due to the jet stream? Or will it vary year to year, perhaps, since it was very hot last year. At least in the SW it was unseasonably hot in May/June, as if we had bypassed Spring.

Gulf stream, not jet stream. Although they do interact and influence each other indirectly, they're different things. Gulf is ocean, jet is an air.

But to answer your question, it's a bit of both. While the Gulf stream is active we're more likely to get warmer, wetter weather, with more frequent and intense storms as the gulf stream brings over increasingly warm waters to our shores (and warm water fuels the intensity of storms).

But observations show that the gulf stream is slowing, at up to 4 times faster than expected, and has slowed by about 15% since around 1950. If it continues to slow, or even stops, the warm waters from the gulf will stop flowing here and we'll experience significant drops in temperatures as well as changes to weather patterns.

Annual and seasonal variations will always exists though, and can be influenced by other systems too e.g., the Siberian High or Saharan Air Layer.

billy1966 · 04/08/2023 10:27

Early 30's here in but fortunately with a nice breeze.
I definitely prefer a sunny early 20's temperature, but the bitching about the cold weather at home is helping me to enjoy it.

user556378 · 04/08/2023 13:15

PearTreeBoat · 03/08/2023 04:31

Although I now live in the Middle East where the heat and humidity in summer is relentless and I do long for a little rain I still don't miss the unpredictable and often chilly, windy, rainy summers of back home.
Was home for a couple of weeks last month and the weather was ok but definitely not "summer" weather.

Also live in the ME! Happy to be in london at the moment to escape the heat but this "summer" in the UK at the moment is true BS and I'm looking forward to going back in a few weeks for some warmth!

SoundTheSirens · 04/08/2023 13:26

ichundich · 03/08/2023 09:00

Where was it 14 yesterday - northern Scotland? In Norfolk it rained a bit in the morning but then it got to 24 and the beaches were packed. The rest of the week is looking similar. It's a typical British summer, and at least we won't have to worry about wildfires, dying crops or thirsty wildlife this year.

Northumberland. I live near the coast in the North East and it has been fucking freezing for July. We had 1.5 weeks of decent weather in June, and since then it’s been grey, wet, chilly. Occasionally the temperature creeps up to 17° but it’s still fucking grey and wet, and the forecast is the same for the next two weeks. Wet, wet, fucking wet. I’ve managed to mow my lawn ONCE in six weeks.

I wouldn’t wish for a heatwave but fuck me, a few sunny days at 20-21° would be perfect.

Crikeyalmighty · 04/08/2023 14:10

@SoundTheSirens same here in Bath. Although today is sunshine and clouds and hasn't rained yet - but the day is young!!

user9630721458 · 04/08/2023 19:33

@Thebestwaytoscareatory Many thanks. I do keep confusing gulf/jet stream! I feel I understand a bit more, off to read up on it.

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