When did the narrative around warm weather change?

[Katypp]

It used to be considered a lovely thing if we had a warm summer. Older people (me!) have happy memories of summer 76 and endless days playing outside in shorts during the holidays.
No it seems to be considered a bad thing, with people complaing about the heat, getting agitated about children going to school or even going outside at all. Weather forecasters wanging on about 'staying hydrated' as if we are children and delivering the forecasts as if it is a bad thing that we can enjoy nice weather for once.
Why are we so joyless, sucking on to bottles of water as if they were dummies and seemingly afraid to venture outside in case we self-combust.
Yes i know ow global warming and skin cancer but our reaction to a pleasant day is somewhat OTT i think.

I agree with you op but so many mumsnetters are never going to

I remember about 10 years ago taking a photo of my dashboard because it hit 30° and I’d never seen it before.

Happens all the time now - maybe people are finding the increase in temperatures hard to deal with?

I get your point, OP.

Whilst some people no doubt have underlying conditions which are exacerbated by it, I do find myself rolling my eyes when my office worker mates moan on about the 'unbearable' heat whilst I'm out onsite for 10 hours in full PPE (long sleeves, padded hard hat, ear muffs, goggles, etc). Honestly think I'd be cooler in a burkha as at least I'd have some airflow from the bottom. 😂

That was supposed to read millimetre!

I've also seen parents complaining about their children being exposed to...rain.

I absolutely hate the heat. My chronic illnesses affect it. I can categorically say I will not be complaining when the temperatures drop.

And when you’re ill it’s not a case of moaning for no reason.

The reason everyone keeps banging on about 76 is because it was very hot for a very long period of time, my mum was pregnant with me snd she used to tell me it nearly done her in, that it was awful and she became really unwell. Maybe that’s why I dislike the heat!

i usually find that people like the op are the first to moan when it’s 18C. Us hotties like cooler weather and rarely mown its too cold. I find it too hot above 25, can’t sleep, eat,, headaches, even my husband who is a lizard dislikes it so hot in the UK when his working outside.

people are different and have preferences for different weather.

Even in 1600 Shakespeare wrote that “sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines”
I agree OP… far too much drama!

I remember as a child in the 90s knowing that 30° was "a very hot day" expected at the height of summer. It definitely happened back then, at least in the South.

I don't disbelieve climate change, but I was under the impression one has to look at graphs and things to compare average temperatures. And that it's something like one degree warmer on average. I appreciate this may be catastrophic for the planet, but in terms of finding the summer weather too hot, surely it's barely noticeable?

I'm with you all the way OP. Looks like we are the minority though🤣. I remember the summer of 1976. I clearly remember playing in the garden with a hosepipe with my dad so it wasn't just kids who enjoyed it back then!

When did everyone start to overuse the word narrative??

YANBU - there was someone on LBC the other day saying children should all be kept INSIDE between 11am and 6pm!

Completely bonkers! 😬

Probably because you were a kid- you wouldn't have cared about hydration and skin cancer risks... The same warmings were happening you just wouldn't have noticed them the same way

I think there are a fair few on here completely missing my point.
I am actually not that keen on extreme heat myself, but late 20s (mainly) is not extreme heat.
I am sure 1976 ( and I was not romanticising it by the way, just it's the best-known hot summer) brought problems, but i am sure weather forecasters were not talking about the temperatures so gravely a week n and we were not constantly bombarded with the stay hydrated and wear a hat rhetoric as if we were children.
You will not expire if you do not drink water every 10 minutes, really.
Yes, I am sure some medical conditions are made worse by the heat, the same as some are affected by the cold, but it's all negative, negative, negative.
Nothing is just nice anymore, it's always yes but, what if ...
And to the pp who said they couldn't go outside until 7pm - really? What would happen if you did? Might you feel a bit hot? Pretty extreme reaction to a pretty normal situation I would say

I’m 41 and a redhead, it’s always been a “thing” for me
making sure I had suncream, being in the shade, staying off school on sports day as you weren’t allowed inside and there was no shade on the field etc etc

If I went out yesterday I can feel my skin burning, immediately. It’s hard to describe but it so hot, it’s just feels unbearable. I sweat loads, hard to breathe (humidity?). I’m also a red head with pale skin, which maybe doesn’t help.

I would never book a holiday somewhere the temperature was above 25. I find 18-20 ideal.

Without the propaganda, how else would the taxpayer be fleeced in the name of Climate change?

Completely agree. The drama..its summer it should be sunny! In NI it has been sunny for 3 days and it is going to rain tomorow.

I have very fond memories of carefree playing in the garden, playing outside, chugging back pints of squash after hours of playing out.

I'm now a menopausal woman with a toddler, bills and a job to go to. My skin has been undercover for that long that I got sunburn yesterday standing outside for 30 mins in the sun 🤣🤣🤣

I'm not against the weather but I don't like being too hot as an adult these days. My daughter on the other hand is lapping it up and living her best life running round in hardly any clothes and a paddling pool and ice cream.

Perspective I guess

Yeah but the batshit lemmings lap up this kind of thing gleefully.

After all they were all screeching for harder, longer lockdowns for two years because of a flu like illness.

Climate change has meant that 30 degrees has become a normal summer temperature whereas when I was young( now 61) it was almost unheard of. A normal warm summer would be low 20s which was lovely, not the mid to high 20s and low 30s we get nowadays. The few degrees difference makes a huge difference to how the heat affects people and makes a summer go from feeling pleasant to unpleasant.

When I go outside in anything over about 25, unless I’m in the shade. I very quickly get dizzy, feel sick, lightheaded and just generally like I could collapse.

Some people love hot weather, others don’t. Like I say I’m ok with temperature up to around 25 degrees.

The news is more prominent than it was in the 70s about everything.

It’s a result of the age of the internet and a back drop of climate change. In the good ole days you had the bbc telling you it was hot and to keep calm and crack on and so that’s what people did. The population was lower, there was less anxiety in general, and people didn’t have an expectation of an easy life with most having been through the war years so had more resilience or rather more tolerance to instability and disruption.

But there were the reminders and warnings. That's the point. This sentimentality of the good old days when people were tough and just got on with it is just a rose tinted glasses version of the truth.

But there were the reminders and warnings. That's the point. This sentimentality of the good old days when people were tough and just got on with it is just a rose tinted glasses version of the truth.