To think this is a stonkingly good summer?!

[Someiremember]

Admittedly I’m in the (lovely)) south east and we are blessed with pretty decent summers generally but so far this summer has been amazing!

9am, and I’m out in the garden, having my coffee and planning trip to beach with my teens for the day. And the sunny warm weather stretches in to the future forecast for days.

Bliss

I’m in NE and I agree. Apparently tent sales are up 50% as people are holidaying in this good weather.

It's been amazing. I was in the garden drinking coffee at 7 this morning. Feels like we have had a proper summer.

I agree - it has been fabulous and I am making the most of it!

Last year was terrible too - I’d already booked a winter sun holiday in desperation by this point!

I am currently suffering with 40+ itchy spots caused by a fungal infection exacerbated by the heat. Am menopausal and am barely able to leave the house in this. And in our holiday a fortnight ago got caught up in a wildfire which meant we had to stay overnight at a hotel as we couldn't get back to our holiday accommodation.

Am in London and seriously looking at Wales/N Scotland for next year.

My teens are struggling in it too but their rooms are in the loft.

Younger me would have loved this, older me worries about the planet burning, my health and risk to my job due to poor performance when suffering

It's a beautiful morning in Manchester and I've got 2 washes dried already. I'm off work today and me and DS plan to make the most of it .

I always feel much better about autumn/winter when we've had a decent summer!

It really does doesn’t it

a proper summer whereby you can make plans and be fairly reassured the weather will be on your side!

Hmm, I was saying to my teen dd last night that it's pretty much mid august and we haven't had much of a summer yet. Its been dry, then wet, then dry but cloudy with these few days of heatwaves but not the stretches of sunny weather I thought I remembered from my childhood

But I don't like the heat as I just sweat buckets and get headaches so it suits me 😆

Last year was better. There were more cooler stretches between the heat. Today is looking much nicer today than forecast. It's cool and overcast but dry. Still meant to get up to 25 later but nice now.

It's been OK this year, too many stretches over 25 are too much for me

Yes it’s been brilliant. It’s my last year in my caravan as I’m selling it and it’s very bittersweet. Going out with a bang!

I feel like last year all it did was rain but this year we've hardly had any for months (where I am.)

Climate change innit

I’m in Eastbourne hospital and it is super cloudy and about to rain!

It’s the silver lining!

but 1976 hottest
followed by 1959

And then 1949 before that

It's been glorious. Last summer was foul, so we jolly well deserved a good one this year. Spring was gorgeous as well. I just hope we don't get an awful one next year!

If this is what climate change looks like, I'm all for it!

I thought this yesterday
We have had more or less the three summer months of June July & August (nearly)
went to get youngster’s new uniform bits yesterday, had to order his jumpers, but said, not a problem I really can’t see you needing them before end of September

I’m a teacher in the north west, we have had a couple of wash out weeks since school holidays started but this week has been lovely and looks like it’s set to stick around. Much better than last year where I think it rained pretty much every day in August.

Working full time + in all the hot weather has not been pleasant and I’m envious of those who get to enjoy it!

Yes and for once it'd actually included the school summer holidays! It's usually lovely in June and rubbish in August but this year its been great full stop and I'm in Wales, so to have it nice here is great.

I can see why for those that like the sun it would be.

Personally I find it too hot. Menopausal and on a tablet that impacts on the bodies ability to regulare temperature. Off work this week and haven't bern able to do dome of what we planned because it is too hot. Know others struggling with the heat too.

Mot saying I don't like nice weather, but the heat level is just a but too much for us.

Be boring if we were all the same. We don't go on holiday to hot countries either. Last trips have been Norway, Iceland and Paris ( buy in November).

For me there is also the concern as to why it has been so hot in the uk.

A bit too hot if anything, I'd prefer it to keep under 27C myself. I'm really glad we chose this year to go to Scotland on summer hols as it would be annoying to have a bad summer and feel like we'd missed out on a chance to be somewhere warmer!

The thing no one talks about, not surprisingly because, y'know, pandemic, was how incredibly lucky we were with spring/summer 2020, in SE at least. It was literally warm and dry from April to late September in the year we could only entertain ourselves outside the house outdoors. It would have been awful with an archetypal British Summer.

Its been a horrible summer for me. I'm in Finland and we had 22 consecutive days where somewhere was at least 30 degrees, with everywhere being far too hot the whole time, and it doesn't cool down at night because of the very short or non-existent (further north) nights. Every day I had to work inside a building that was 26-28 degrees with air conditioning on full blast.

Then the rest of the time it was cold and rainy. Think we had about 2 or 3 days of actual pleasant summer weather, the rest was one of the two extremes. And its only going to get worse in future years, the climate is warming at a significantly faster rate in Finland than the global average 😞

Don’t be so flippant. It looks like mass volumes of displaced people, war, water and food shortages and civil unrest. You think food is expensive now? We’re in the foothills now, it’s just starting off.

Joy tinged with fear.i hate rain and I hate cold. But I see how low the rivers and ponds are here. I remember hot summers/waterfights etc from my childhood, but am pretty sure I'm remembering odd days. Especially as I'm in NWales. I remember hosepipe bans too.

I don't remember consistently high temperatures like these and it makes me worry about the knock on effects. 18 was cause for celebration. 25 used to seen as ridiculously high, but that's fairly standard now. And the fact that it's not just here. Talking to various locals in Greece on holiday, who were worried about how hot it's been there.