RIP Summer: 2025-2025

[BeLoudRubyPanda]

Today it feels like autumn or winter. It's about 18C here. My forecast for the next week is pitcured here. Also you can see the seasonal averages for my area.

Tedious hysteria OP. It's only bloody May. Not even summer. Yawn.

What a weird thing to say when summer hasn't even started 🤔

I'm in North West England and last night we had our first rain since Easter weekend. It's been utterly glorious: endless sunshine, warm but not hot and so much better than last year's entire summer.

It's grey and 19ish degrees today - fairly standard for May. It's waaaaaaay too early to lament the end of summer; it's not really even started yet!

It’s cloudy and 19° here In north Wiltshire, I’ve just walked the dogs wearing a tee shirt and jeans, very pleasant.
Talk about being pessimistic!

To echo others… it’s spring, it’s not summer. We’ve been fortunate to have the driest spring on record in years, not so good for the rivers and reservoirs, but good for people who want to wear t-shirts. You’re still just over a week away from summer, so maybe be a bit patient?

I was about the post the same thing. Not many people realise it refers to May flower which incidentally is a glorious sight.

Looks like op is another 1 and done wind up merchants

There’s been a spate of these posts. Bemoaning the lack of summer. In May. Which is spring. It’s quite odd.

I said it because we've had weeks of sun in the UK so that must mean our summer has been and gone so I could be wrong.

These were my afternoon and evening tempuatures for my area on this day last year (24th May)

Now it's 20C here. Looks like autumn (because of the grey sky) but feels like summer (because of the tempuature)

My main prediction going forward is a hot June and July (so a hot summer). But now I just think we'll have a cold a rainy August and September. Then a warm October with some 20-30C heatwaves then back to rain in November.

Next Spring will be average tempautres possibly

It's just unfortunate the poorer weather has coincided with the holiday week so it's more noticeable.

Come September when the schools return, the weather will be sunny.

Apparently in England 13 of the last 20 Spring Bank Holidays have been wet.

It’s going to be 20°c here up north tomorrow.

That's.... totally normal for May in the UK? And May is still spring in my book. Looking online, most sites seem to put normal May temperatures at 14-18C, so actually this is on the warm end. And it's generally quite rainy so this May has also been petty dry so far. I think the fact that in the last 5-10 years we've have some record high temperatures have skewed ideas of what's nirmal.

Eh? It was pretty warm, and even muggy in London today and we were sat outside drinking until about 8pm. Yes I had to out my cardie on for the walk home, but that is hardly winter temperatures.

We are going to an outdoor festival tomorrow afternoon and evening and the weather looks fine.

Welcome to Britain, @BeLoudRubyPanda ; you must be new here.

I said it because we've had weeks of sun in the UK so that must mean our summer has been and gone so I could be wrong.

have we really had weeks of sun? I'm still in jumpers most days as I was today but I don't find 20 degrees hot although it's not winter!

Britain got America's weather is what happened. It was only about 9C yesterday (normal high: 25) and we've had loads of rain! Some poor town has had 10" so far this month. I actually do think I read about something being up with the jet stream.

It’s been so warm and gloriously sunny that my last utility bill was only £66, I do have solar panels on a south facing roof and these have halved my electricity bill.

Great british westher - wind rain sun snow - all wonderful seasons! Makes our weather much more interesting- hate to live in a country with 28 degrees blazing sun day in day out for months! with no respite - it has been really unseasonally warm this year already ! Lets just enjoy the seasons instead of wishing them to come sooner ie - summer

It was 20 degrees C today, and didn't even rain til 3pm. And it's late MAY. There are another 3-4 months yet, where we could get (and will get) nice weather!

The weather is predicted to be dull and damp for the next week, but will very likely pick up by mid week. Met Office have been known to get forecasts wrong!

What a daft thread @BeLoudRubyPanda 🙄

Same here in UK Beltaine and other spellings/ or 1 May is traditionally celebrated as start of summer.

Summer solstice is the astronomical summer beginning though

I feel sorry for the kids on half term, especially those who were doing exams over the last few weeks. It's been so lovely since Easter but now it is raining torrentially and blowing a gale here and the forecast is poor for most of the coming week. I live in a popular tourist area so I think there are going to be lots of disappointed families. I feel really sorry for them, though we do actually need the rain as the reservoirs are very low and I was anticipating restrictions on water usage if the dry weather carried on much longer. It's just a shame that it had to come in the holidays.
I hardly think we can complain about Summer being over at this stage of the year though!

This isn’t talking about the month, it’s talking about may blossom.

Antonio Gutierrez said this is the era of global boiling. Gardener’s World gives advice on drought-resistant plants for our new desert-like conditions, with Adam Frost saying at Chelsea this week that we will all need to plant into sand in the new arid climate. It may feel cold but really we are boiling, according to science.