Do you think it will be like this next Summer? Was it like this last Summer?

[Loveheart10]

It’s been so hot and sunny hasn’t it. To be fair apart from the initial crazy heatwave I’ve found the quite pleasant. It’s been in the low 20s most days. But it extremely hot again now, over 30 degrees.

Was it like this last Summer? I do remember it getting very hot.

Do you think we are going to keep getting Summers like this?

Yes and yes. Last year was the hottest summer on record, although that’s likely to be beaten by this year.

Who knows

Yes we will get more and more summers like this. We learnt about this outcome at school in the 80s. The el nino we are in now carries on into next spring, so if the rest of the weather stacks up such as the jet stream and high pressure then it could be another hot one. But it depends how things stack up.

I'm glad you've enjoyed it and I have sometimes myself. However the wild fires, smoke and impacts on wildlife and crops and food security are awful. I'm surprised I haven't seen the PM saying more about climate change mitigation and adaptation tbh.

My friend and I were having a discussion and she was saying that she doesn’t remember it being hot last year. But I can remember having time off with the kids and bring really peed off. I’d planned days out and it was too hot to do anything.

Low 20s is so much more tolerable.

@Loveheart10 you’re not in the south east are you?

Yes and yes

Yes it’s very worrying.

No why do you ask?

I wonder what happened to the idea that “they” are always up in their planes, cloud seeding to make it grey and cloudy and rainy? Are they off duty this summer? Has the narrative now shifted to “Shhhhh… we have to peddle climate change and extreme heat now, so let it shine, let it shine, let it shine…”

Another theory I’ve heard (and don’t think is true) is that ULEZ (ultra low emission zone in London and other cities) is the reason for the extreme heat. Less pollution to protect us from the sun.

According to the Met Office, the summer of 2025 was the hottest summer on record in the UK.

It looks like the summer of 2026 will be even hotter.

Was it really? Has it not been beaten already this year?? Just looked through my camera and I have a fair few photos of my kids in jumpers and leggings in the summer holidays, they haven’t been worn this year since May! The week we went away (in the UK) was particularly miserable. Certainly no schools closed last year, I don’t remember many excessively hot (35 degrees) days last year unlike this year where they’ve been a weekly occurrence.

Because this year has literally been hell down here

I say this as somebody who normally likes summer

i’ve been up north twice and it was lovely, but they said to me that it was much sunnier than usual. It was about 23 both times I went so it worked out really well.

Although to be honest, given the hell we have down here, I wouldn’t have been sorry to see some rain. Quite the novelty. I think we’re on the 60th day without it here.

I bought an air con in 2023 and remember regretting it last year because I didn't use it and it takes up space. Nearly gave it away, now very glad I didn't!

So I'm pretty sure it wasn't hot enough last year to go to the effort of taking all the stuff off the top and attaching the hose.

I bet there will be plenty of hot summers to come though, variation is part of it.

I'm concerned about the winter too. It wasn't too bad here last year but terrible floods the year before.

Ah yes. I’m in the Midlands.

I’m not someone who copes well with the heat generally. Last year I was having hot flushes constantly but that seems to have stopped thankfully.

But here we had that really bad heatwave when schools were closing , after that it’s been mainly low 20s. No rain at all though. But the temperatures have been manageable for me personally up until the last couple of days.

All the grass is completely brown everywhere.

I wonder if perhaps it was more humid here last year with perhaps more extreme spells of heat.

Wish the SE had been low 20s! Weather has been unusable as snow days are in some ways. Next week it’s not going to be cool - 26-28 most days where I am which in London for work means 30+ in the office

It was delivery hot last summer, the records can’t be argued with. Plus my brother and family was over from Australia for 2 months. They couldn’t stand the hot weather because of the humidity here.

I do think this weather is here to stay. It’s incredibly scary. If it’s like this in the Uk, Europe and other parts of the world must be absolutely hell.

It was hot last summer but iirc the heat broke earlier, so the school summer holidays were a bit cooler than this year.

Hope so. I love the hot weather. We have fans and air con and a pool and it's been brilliant. Almost as good as the summer I was furloughed during covid. Embrace the heat as it won't last

For many years we went camping in the UK during the same week in August and it was always wet and miserable, often resulting in a early return home.
Our last camp was 2024, it was the best weather we'd ever had but we still did have some rain.
I used to joke that we bought the rain but I'm now beginning to wonder if I need to get the tent out again.

My husband’s a firefighter and they’re all generally saying this is the longest, hottest summer they can remember. There’s been wildfires before but not as relentless as this for as long as this.

<waves from different planet>

edit - i’m not being rude, I actually do hope you enjoy your air conditioning and pool

I remember saying it had been a beautiful summer, and as I'm not a heat lover, I imagine it can't have been too bad! I think it's because the nights cooled down properly, which tbf they are mostly doing at the moment. It's only when it stays crazy warm overnight that I can't cope. I'm South Bucks, which I think is the hottest part of the country at the moment (outside London).

It has not been low 20s in the midlands over the summer. It’s been roasting.

The kids in leggings etc was because the weather broke when the schools broke up.

The fact that the op can't remember last summer indicates is wasn't that bad. Personally I avidly recall 76 and 05 and 2010...the first two because it was hot for ages not the odd period. 2010 because it rained all summer and I was a professional gardener and was continually wet

Well we will have to agree to disagree.

I’ve just googled and it says the average temperature has been 19 degrees. I check the BBC weather app every day too.