AIBU no one should be allowed to moan about it raining next week and the future

[Njuy]

Next week it’s going to forecast rain and cooler weather. Yay! Dreading the next few days beforehand

No one should moan about it raining until the grass has turned green.

Looking forward to the rain but not the flooding that will happen.

Live in the east in Yorkshire. I doubt we will get any rain.

I feel I achieved this by buying new sun loungers

My kids are off camping next week in the NW with their dad. I’m not sure the forecasted rain will be welcomed - the cooler weather for tents will be though. Hoping it’s more intermittent as it could be miserable. I’ve done a week camping in the rain with kids. And about 20 years ago my DH and I went camping down Devon and Cornwall and were there when Boscastle flooded.

Same! Here in Lanarkshire we have had some hot weather but we’ve had plenty of rain too. On Sunday it was raining most of the day & we’ve had a few torrential downpours over the summer. My lawn is green.

This ^^ It's been too much. I am desperately worried about wildlife, I can't imagine the hell they've going through or how much of it we've lost. And then there's the fires of woodland and natural habitats. I've done my feeble attempt to help in my garden (food, water, shelter etc) had parched birds gasping , beaks open, hedgehogs looking for slugs that aren't there! We need rain, and lots of it! Not torrential, just steady and often until the ground recovers.

Wish it would rain in Norwich right now, huge heath close to city on fire, major incident declared. So many beautiful trees and wildlife in danger. Heartbreaking

And even then July is unpredictable! We have a few birthdays in July. Weather has been mixed over the years inc one year when we organised a bbq. Two people out in the garden cooking under a gazebo while the rest watched from the window!

ETA where I live we joke summer is the best day of the year!

In the spring/summer months he usually has plenty of grass to live on, now it’s like a desert. He’d get a little bit of hard feed for extra nutrients.
Now he’s getting hay and the hard feed he gets in the winter.
He’s 16.2hh so a lot of horse to feed. I’m also worried about getting hay for winter

We were listening to see if the birds went quiet in the eclipse and realised we hardly heard any birds recently anyway.

The street normally has loads as it has a small village pond but it dried up. People have bern putting little bowls of water out bit i think its been too little, too late.

Do they die or fly somewhere else?

Oh i see! Thanks for clarifying, I thought he went on some kind of summer fast 🙈

Oh bless him - of course, there really could be shortages of hay

The best chance we have of rain in my area next week is 20%. I don't remember when I last saw real rain.

I love a good thunderstorm, bring it on.

I will never complain about rain/cold again after this appalling summer which STILL isn't over. Sick of having no energy, no interest in anything, no happiness. Please could it rain/snow for the next 6 months. And I used to absolutely love summer!

I'm in the South, so I doubt I'll see the rain any time soon

Had today booked off as its a relative's birthday. We hardly did anything as too hot to do anything. It would have been my team's day in the office today and the aircon is glorious as worked there when been similar temps.

They say not to open windows until the outside temp is cooler than inside - otherwise heating your home. Outside 32c and inside 28c. Tomorrow its 19c at 7am. No chance getting much kip tonight

According to BBC Weather, it's going to be cloudy over the next few days then high chance of rain daily here until the 26th...
I'll believe it when I see it! Although it wasn't forecast, it did rain for 3mins this afternoon!

If the changes weren't so extreme, it'd be so much better. I'm sick of finding things to wash just because it dries so fast, I even washed all the carpets just to make use of the heat! But I need, NEEEEED! a few days to cool down. Roll on Autumn! With a few dry days sprinkled throughout as I'm used to having an empty laundry basket now...

I was excited to see we were going to have a thunder storm a few weeks back. We got one loud thunder and a bright⚡about 3am then that was that. Very disappointing 😅

Everywhere i go the grass is brown and I really haven't seen it this extent before. This is in the north as well! I will be welcoming the rain, can't abide this heat.

I dont think we will get it because it was supposed to rain today and that vanished quickly now we have out of control fires everywhere

It can rain for 2 hours over night and that’s it!!
I'm loving this summer we’re actually having, like the summers I remember from when I was a child!!

London. Awful here. Whole city smells like a urinal. Can’t wait for rain.

Well, this is weird. A previous poster said that people were being unreasonable because they were “bragging“ about the hot weather. Nobody has bragged about the hot weather. It’s bloody awful, a misery and highly damaging. Yet here you are, bragging about the fact that you have had rain, surely not unseasonal in Lanarkshire, and that your lawn is green. “ I’m alright, Jack“.

'Incessant whingers' might be struggling for a whole host of reasons, and might also be aware that there's no way of programming much needed rain to just fall overnight, leaving dry days. Yes, we need rain to grow crops... and crops are quite important. But still, as long as you are enjoying your glorious summer, who needs food and water?!

With you all the way with feeling violently vengeful towards the privatised water companies! Here in Cornwall South West Water literally 'take the piss' and amongst other misdemeanours they blatantly and continuously allow raw sewage to flow into our beautiful seas, rivers and waterways while the 'toothless tiger' which is the EA tuts and does nothing! 😱
Meanwhile the shareholders continue to get their nice payouts and the management cream off their massive 'bonuses' making a mockery of the meaning of the word! 😡
We live rurally on a lane with very old water pipes and there are regularly occurring leaks when water pours down the lane to the main road which happened again yesterday and we were without water all day until they finally fixed it at around 10.30pm...I should mention that nobody could get access in or out with a vehicle whilst this was going on and god forbid if an ambulance needed access...our daughter visiting from Plymouth for the eclipse was trapped here till they had cleared away all the machinery! This has been going on for the entire 37 years we have lived here and SWW know they should really replace the pipes on the entire lane but they would rather keep on patching them up than make the investment! Grrr! 🙄
We aren't on the main sewage outlet and have a 'soakaway' in the garden which is very efficient and environmentally positive so we do pay a reduced rate on our water bill but I still begrudge every penny given to them!
It's frustrating that the unbelievably shocking, informing and totally damning docu-drama 'It's a Dirty Business' didn't have quite the impact hoped for and that the government weren't motivated to do more than fining them and slapping them on the wrist...we shall have to wait and see if Mr Burnham has it in him to stand up to them or if he even thinks that it's a priority to do so? 🤔

So were we! It was 2004. We were on a cliff top camp site and.could feel the wind getting underneath the tent. It felt likr we were going to be blown off the cliff! Ended up sleeping in the car and goingnto a b&b.
The poor people of Boscastle, homes & businesses wrecked

Same