Am I the only person on MN who loves the summer?

[NotTheOrdinary]

All I see is posters moaning about summer and loving the winter.

I love the light nights. I love not wearing boots and coats and scarves. Bring the summer on!

I wonder why they find artificial heat so much more preferable?

This is pretty much what California is. Warm and lovely and sunny from February-ish to November. I did a year-long programme there and immediately understood why it is so expensive and desirable!

I like aspects of it but overall prefer autumn. I don’t like being hot, I don’t like sweating, and I don’t like it being light so late.

I think you are forgetting that the UK is very humid - water carries heat, which affects the way we feel heat and how our bodies regulate. We also don’t have AC in our homes as a standard, they are designed to keep warmth in. People get heatstroke very easily in these temperatures.

The humidity also means cold weather is a really horrible damp cold, rather than dry and crisp. Basically all temps feel more extreme.

We don't need AC - better to adapt to the heat. Perhaps the issue is it's too unreliable to have time to acclimatise!

Also not sure about insulation - surely it works both ways and keeps the heat out? I really noticed this staying in a friend's new build - it was cool inside but much warmer outside.

I would rather have damp cold than damp, sweaty heat.

We can’t acclimatise because of climate change and climbing record temperatures each year. Otherwise we already would have.

My older cat has been sunbathing happily. I think the younger one must be a secret mumsnetter. He came in three times to tell me it was Too Hot.

I love summer!
But meds make me heat intolerant so the frequent heatwaves we get now mean that I miss out on too much of it.

July? There was a thread like that a couple of days ago.

I hate the hot weather with a passion. Really unpleasant when mucking out stables, working in the garden or even going walking.
Those who enjoy it must just be lounging around doing nothing active.
Roll on the cool autumn days

I meant acclimatising as individuals, in the short term sense. I always found when going abroad somewhere hotter, for example, that it took a few days to get used to it (haven't been abroad for a few years now). But avoiding aircon where possible seemed to make me acclimatise better.

@Attackedbysavagebees

Those who enjoy it must just be lounging around doing nothing active.

Nope. In fact last summer I was working a physical outdoor job.

I guess people really are different, and the heat-lovers and cold-lovers will remain forever baffled by one another!

No, you most certainly aren't alone. Where I live we are heading towards winter and I am counting down the days until summer returns. I love summer and autumn (we have lovely warm autumns here).

Summer life is so much easier than winter, I'm sick of wearing layers.

Nope, I go out for a long walk every day, and in summer I'm always out and about several times a day. I find being outside on a dull cold day horrible and have to force myself to go out - on a warm day you can't keep me inside.

I love everything about it except the actual heat! The longer days, the plants, the golden evenings- all of it is wonderful, though my intolerance of the temperature makes it hard to actually get out and enjoy it.

The slightly cooler evenings after a long hot days when things are finally tolerable, though? Nothing beats it.

I love it too op, I adore feeling the sun on my skin and the bright days.
I do actually enjoy all the seasons it’s just the proportions of how much we get of all of them seems skewed.
We don’t get enough sun compared to grey days imo.
this ‘heatwave’ is surely just the absence of clouds and cold wind, why is it so bloody hard for them to line up more often?!
Anyway I’m just about to go for a swim in the lake, and it’s a lot more pleasant when it’s like this than it is in the colder months 😂

I love the summer and had to stop myself commenting on the other thread panicking about a few hot days because I couldn’t say anything nice. It’s hot, just get a fan and make sensible plans. I also love snow and thunder storms.

I work outdoors all day in all weathers. The difference between working in knee deep mud, lashing rain, thermals and well, what we have now, where I can just go in shorts and a tee shirt and we can move around with ease and we don’t have to constantly clean floors of mud, is exponential!

I love Autumn aesthetically but summer is just so much easier for me.

Adore summer. We are shortly moving to a hot country and I cannot cannot wait.

I commented that we were heading south to locate the sun 😇.

Enjoying my coffee in the garden now…
I live for summer.

Where are you? It’s 12 degrees here and grey but warming up by 11am.

I am also with you, the garden right now is a riot of colour, my windows are open, the birds are tweeting it’s lovely.

i much prefer the clothes of summer, hate having to bundle up,just to stay warm, sleeveless tops, pretty dresses, shorts, sandals,

winter sees rain, mud, darkness, I don’t get the love for it, and the very odd mumsnet obsession of hot chocolate, like sitting there drinking it for 5 mins once a day is some form of life enhancing experience, it’s just a mug of hot chocolate.

@TeenLifeMumIm in Hertfordshire. 17 degrees now. I don’t think it went below 15/16 all night. Which is very lucky for us as my dc went to his first scout camp for the weekend, and a week ago I was worried he’d be freezing at night time.

Wrong.
I live in a village on the edge of the Pennines so don't get the kind of stifling heat that is often described on here. I suspect the heat haters probably live in London, the south east or a large city.

I also tolerate heat rather better than most of the whingers and don't spend all day lounging about when it is hot.

I love the longer days and warmer weather. We had 24 degrees and a stiff breeze yesterday.