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To think this is a stonkingly good summer?!

219 replies

Someiremember · 13/08/2025 09:03

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

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JacknDiane · 13/08/2025 14:12

I don't like the heat but I'm glad the kids at school have had a good summer.

AzurePanda · 13/08/2025 14:14

It’s been bliss but the lack of grazing is terrible and I am very grateful we no longer have horses.

Fridaythe13thagain · 13/08/2025 14:14

MotherofPearl · 13/08/2025 10:44

The extreme heat here and in Europe this summer is frankly terrifying imo. It’s a harbinger of the climate change horror that we are now starting to really experience. How anyone can delight in it is beyond me. Wild fires in Europe, people evacuated from their homes, parched countryside in the UK, water shortages, farmers not having enough grazing for cattle, vulnerable people dying of heat-related complications - the list goes on. I really don’t see how anyone can enjoy the hot weather when you understand what it means and what the future looks like. As a pp said, think of the impact on food prices if nothing else.

But apparently it's 'worth it', so it's fine.

Berlinlover · 13/08/2025 14:20

It’s been utter shite here in the west of Ireland. A rare nice day yesterday but a rain warning for this afternoon.

ListenLinda · 13/08/2025 14:24

Yes it's been a fantastic spring and summer, for those of us that love the heat/sun.
It's been a nice change to have school holidays where the kids can actually enjoy being outside, it feels like it started raining in July 2023 and didn't bloody stop until Autumn 2024.

Chipsahoy · 13/08/2025 14:25

We’ve had a glorious summer holidays in my corner of Scotland. Kids back next week, it’s been lovely.

Radiowaawaa · 13/08/2025 14:26

Not where I am! I love the sunshine so might book a holiday up north next year!

Threesacrow · 13/08/2025 14:32

The Amazing thing is that it started so early, on 5th March, and has carried on with just a few blips. The hot summer of 1976 followed a cool spring and didn't start until June, but this year, the warm weather has gone on for months. Loving it!

WibbleyPie · 13/08/2025 14:44

We seem to have had extremes with not a lot in between, either drizzly, grey and miserable (near the coast and we've had a lot of sea fret too) absolutely tipping it down and blowing a hoolie or 25+ roasting in the sun.

I love the sun but unfortunately it doesn't like me much any more and I suffer for it, hats and factor 50 don't seem to do much and I feel unwell if I'm in it too long, I tend to stay at home on days like today where it's 26, and go in the garden intermittently and do a bit or sit for a bit and enjoy it but I know if I don't get out of it and cool down I'll suffer.

I do see evidence all around though that it's just as damaging as flooding or high winds in its own way because crops are suffering, even the weeds are struggling on some local footpaths and grazing is already being supplemented by farmers near us with hay for the animals because the grass is parched, and of course the hay being used this early combined with a low yield because it's struggling is not good.

There's also been a local moorland fire, apparently caused by some idiot with a BBQ, it's about 25 miles away but last night we had pungent smelling and visible smoke, meaning windows had to be closed, and it's torn through woodland and moorland and although I think under control now, still going two days later, the moorland is so dry it goes up like a tinder box.

ETA - actually there's 2 fires, but the one closer to me is 5km squared with 20 fire appliances in attendance and is wiping out rare habitats, there's no farms or homes in danger at the moment but with the entire moor being so dry because of lack of recent rain and high temperatures they're fighting to keep it from spreading.

Lampzade · 13/08/2025 14:46

Definitely been a lovely Summer
Last year I didn’t attend one barbecue because the weather was dreadful .
This year, I have attended seven

Someiremember · 13/08/2025 15:23

thebraveryofbeingoutofrange · 13/08/2025 10:36

I’m guessing there’ll be a mixture of people who love the heat and those that don’t. Both of which are perfectly understandable. Anyone complaining about it being too hot doesn’t influence the weather in any way.

I think that poster meant that it will descend in to some posters riding in to educate us ignorant sun loving folk on climate change…. Which is precisely what has happened! 😆

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Someiremember · 13/08/2025 15:25

Berlinlover · 13/08/2025 14:20

It’s been utter shite here in the west of Ireland. A rare nice day yesterday but a rain warning for this afternoon.

That’s my experience of Ireland

so much potential for a lovely place

but utterly ruined by the rain rain rain

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Someiremember · 13/08/2025 15:30

MotherofPearl · 13/08/2025 12:34

But they are linked. I don’t care if you or others think I’m a misery. I think I’m a realist, and refuse to bury my head in the sand thinking hot weather is all about beaches and fun times.

What drew you to the thread @MotherofPearl ? You think you can all make us feel guilty for enjoying the sun? Or you thought you’d open our minds and introduce us to climate change?

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Delatron · 13/08/2025 15:31

Threesacrow · 13/08/2025 14:32

The Amazing thing is that it started so early, on 5th March, and has carried on with just a few blips. The hot summer of 1976 followed a cool spring and didn't start until June, but this year, the warm weather has gone on for months. Loving it!

I think that is what has been so different about this year. It started in Spring! We had a lovely April. May on the whole was glorious (apart from half term - typical!).

All my outdoor events this year have had nice weather. Whereas last year many were ruined by rain.

So unusual for this country.

Netcurtainnelly · 13/08/2025 15:31

I could permanently live in Summer. Shame it's coming to an end.

mrsm43s · 13/08/2025 15:43

MotherofPearl · 13/08/2025 12:34

But they are linked. I don’t care if you or others think I’m a misery. I think I’m a realist, and refuse to bury my head in the sand thinking hot weather is all about beaches and fun times.

They are linked, but enjoying the sun does not cause climate change, nor does moaning about it solve it.

If you are worried about climate change, then take step to actually change things rather than just sitting around moaning about people enjoying the sun. Give up your car! Grow your own veg! Shop local! Don't buy imported goods! Turn the fan/air conditioning off (and the heating in Winter)These things may all help.

Someiremember · 13/08/2025 15:45

MotherofPearl · 13/08/2025 12:34

But they are linked. I don’t care if you or others think I’m a misery. I think I’m a realist, and refuse to bury my head in the sand thinking hot weather is all about beaches and fun times.

You just got back from the south of France @MotherofPearl
Presumably very hot there?

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DaffodilValley · 13/08/2025 16:03

Not for me. My garden is dying, I am struggling with the heat, there is so much to do and I can’t do it because I can’t move about easily because the heat increases my pain levels.

Until the temperature drops I’m just getting through each day and existing.

OtherS · 13/08/2025 16:14

Agree, home counties here and it's been pretty much perfect. A few days have been a bit hotter than I'd choose, but at least it cools down overnight; I can cope with a heatwave so long as it's not 30+ at 2am like it was a few years back! I have a convertible so have definitely been getting money's worth. Would like a bit more rain, but I'm currently sat in a thunderstorm so maybe someone's listening - and even thoughtfully waited for me to get home after a lovely morning having coffee outside a cafe, then lunch outside a pub. Happy days.

ConfusedSloth · 13/08/2025 16:16

YABU. Apparently there’s an amber warning heatwave and I’m sat (on holiday, in the south) with a jumper on under a grey sky. It’s neither warm nor sunny and I have no idea what you people are on about!?

ConfusedSloth · 13/08/2025 16:18

It’s been grey, wet, windy and miserable since we got here.

KnittyNell · 13/08/2025 16:18

No I hate heat with a passion and I’m so happy that Autumn is just around the corner.

thebraveryofbeingoutofrange · 13/08/2025 16:27

Someiremember · 13/08/2025 15:23

I think that poster meant that it will descend in to some posters riding in to educate us ignorant sun loving folk on climate change…. Which is precisely what has happened! 😆

Has it?

Someiremember · 13/08/2025 16:30

thebraveryofbeingoutofrange · 13/08/2025 16:27

Has it?

A couple have ploughed in “educating” and saying that we are all self absorbed in our “celebratory” attitude

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mamabearlove · 13/08/2025 16:31

Yes glorious weather ,fantastic for people trying to occupy children over the hols .
This weather will be such a bonus for people who cannot afford holidays abroad.
Blackberries are very early and in bountiful supplies.
Quite dreary today in South East but cannot complain.