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?

It's been way hotter this year but I don't know that we've had that awful heat/humidity with dense cloud cover like we had last year. To be fair, it's been sunny most days.

We've had a chat to our electrician and he's putting air con in when he can get stock (likely November) in our living room and bedroom. It's just too much for DH, he's got a heart issue and gets very tired at the best of times ... add in excess heat and he's just miserable.

I do think that we will get more hot summers. I do remember last summer been hot but i coped a lot better. It was warmer in March and April last year so i found it easier to adjust. It broke earlier too. We did get a day when it was 30 degrees in August but it cooled down at night. This summer has been hell. It didn't stop raining for months at the start of the year. Then it got really hot. I feel as though i have moved from the arctic to the tropics.

Last year I don’t remember it being like this for so long. In London and it’s been horrific. It’s just so hot you can’t do anything. I don’t think I’ve opened my curtains for about 3 months. It was 36 today and it’s still 30 degrees in my house at 9.20pm. Going to fit some air con over the winter for next year.

I'm in the SE and it's been boiling and I love hot weather. Im worried that every summer is going to be hotter than the previous summer and we are just going to boil.

June here in Ireland wasn’t good but July’s weather has been great. August too so far has been fab. Not as hot as in the UK though, thankfully.

Picturesque up there in Greenland is it @Loveheart10 ???

I can only surmise that you're up there, as the majority of the UK - especially England and Wales has been suffering horrendous heat since Mid May, and for many it has not been a nice summer!' It's been too hot to do anything for around 70% of the summer so far!

Indeed it's been 30 degrees Celsius for more than 40 days of the spring and summer, and there's been raging fires/wildfires, droughts/water shortages, and 3000 heat related deaths! It's been a battle just to put one foot in front of the other some days, and people in upper floor flats feel like they're living in hell.

What a nice little bubble you're in where it's 'pleasant!'

And yes, it looks like long hot summers (with blasting heatwaves) are going to be the new normal! As has been said, it's very worrying to think that each year it may get worse and worse.

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I don't particularly remember last summer being as hot. I don't remember schools sending children home, or talk of it (which did happen a few years before).

But I do know that it was hot and dry because it has been harder to buy hay through the last winter as less grew.

It's odd the bits I don't remember and bits I do.

Totally agree and also cant believe Andy Burnham isn't out there putting the climate crisis at the very top of his agenda, it will affect literally everyone in this country, everyone

Really? Just really?

It was hot at points last year but we also had regular spells of rain.

i was regularly mowing the lawn and neither mine nor anyone else's where I live looked like the barren wastelands that they do now.

You can’t win on mumsnet.

I’ve posted before on here about not minding Winter and finding it cosyetc and have been called a miserable got more or less.

For me personally where I live in the Midlands, yes the majority of days have been pleasant. There have been days where it’s been unbearably hot too but it certainly hasn’t been like that every day,

That doesn’t mean it’s not worrying the impact of climate change or all the dry weather.

Hence why I started the thread.

Ill be quite content on the Winter months.

People get so het up over the weather, I don’t have control over it anymore than you.

This. ^ The word 'batshit' doesn't even begin to cover it.

As @Tel12 said, Really? Just REALLY?!

Much of this summer has been a huge struggle for many, especially in the South, Wales, and The Midlands! (I live in The Midlands, and some days have been brutal.) As I said you must live in Greenland if you think it's been a 'pleasant' summer!

Have you seen the news? The droughts, the fires, the 1000s of deaths from the heat, the strain on hospitals and emergency service, people passing out in the heat? Even on today's news there was a feature about nurses struggling with the heat and fainting in the hospitals. Millions of people are struggling!

Absolutely tone-deaf, batshit thread.

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I hope so. I am retired, I don't have to do anything or go anywhere. I live near woods so I can have a nice shaded jog/walk. Most days I have been cycling.

So 2024 we had quite a wet July and Scotland had a very wet August, England only had half the usual rainfall but temps in August were very marginally above the average August norm. July was under the average apart from a couple of very hot days at the end. It felt summery and pleasant but not hot and heatwaves.

2025 July had rain and thunder and quite warm temps but not relentless heat wave territory. August last year was dry, hot and sunny. Warmest summer on record, but we had more rainfall in July than we have this year.

I'm in the East and it has been a lovely summer really. I have bitched about it in terms of getting too hot in my spare room when I'm at work, and I haven't enjoyed the tropical nights, but I've loved eating outside for dinner every night, and sitting outside in the morning with my tea. My town also has an outdoor pool which has been glorious. So I really can't complain overall.

I do, separately, recognise that the wild fires, insane levels of dryness, and increasing heat are a very worrying sign of things to come. And I would love a bit of rain, and I do really feel for the farmers. But personally, it has been lovely overall.

I agree with you.

Obviously, on a World level, climate change is incredibly worrying.
Obviously, for the farmers and food producers, it is an incredibly difficult time.

However, on a personal level I have loved this Summer.
Today was too hot, but over the weeks and months it has been lovely, knowing you can go out without an umbrella or jacket or jumper. I love the fact we've been able to plan outdoor events and be pretty confident they will be able to go ahead. I've loved sitting outside relaxing.

All those saying what a lovely summer it's been - get ready to pay a shit load more for fruit and veg as crops are destroyed by this incessant heat.

That average factors in nights though!

I’ve quite enjoyed it! Also in the south-east. I seem to have acclimatised mostly. Was a bit too hot today though

This summer has been horrendous here in London.
its been way too hot to do the nice, pleasant things of summer that folks are enjoying in the north, like sitting outside for dinner (no, way too hot), cycling, walking, enjoying cup of tea outside.

we’ve all spent way too much trying to keep doors and windows shut to keep the cool air inside the house.

we spent a week in Yorkshire end July and the weather was just perfect. A lovely mid 20s, nice and sunny with a breeze. Fabulous.

down here has been like living in a hot soup. Upstairs in my house where children are trying to sleep is currently over 30 degrees. Fans are on constantly.

for future summers we’re going to have to become more European to cope. Shutters on outside of windows, keeping everything shut up during the day. I can see us all working less in the middle of the day and then coming back to it in evenings etc.

I think this year has been hotter than last, but both years have seen little to no rainfall. I havent worn a jacketsince May. The ground is parched and grass is brown everywhere.
i love the heat and the weather, but would love some rain overnight and it to just cool down a couple of cegrees over night.

This year so much worse than last year…but there was definitely a spell of intense heat last year too and we cancelled a UK holiday because of it. We have two dogs that we take with us and it would have been utterly miserable for them. 2024 also very hot periods, again I remember purely because of having to get up at silly time to dog-walk and cancelling days out.

I assume you dont live in the south in a city in a flat with skylights, where the temperature even at night hasnt dipped below 28 all summer (its 34 now at 22.30) ?
Not pleasant at all, seriously thinking about moving north.
According the met Office we can expect our summers to be even warmer with prolonged heatwaves in future. Eek! Scary stuff.

I feel your pain loveheart! We went to west Wales beginning of school hols and it was bliss (mostly 20-23° with a lovely breeze)