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 I think next year will be a scorcher again. I left the UK for a holiday last month, literally left the tail end of the first heatwave here to land in Ibiza where they was having the hottest summer they had had in many of the people's lifetimes, temperatures for that whole week we was there was in the high 30's with feel like temps in the 40s, the humidity was nothing like we get here it was worse. Humidity levels up to 98% most nights. Once we got back into the UK the mid twenties felt almost cold at times.
It isnt just the UK that is struggling with the heatwave.

I'm in the Midlands too, and I haven't worn anything but shorts and vest tops for months now. I moved in April and I put most of my stuff in storage and I've not even got a jacket out . Apart from the odd day, it's been boiling hot every day. I know we are northern compared to London but our temps in the Midlands have definitely been higher than most of the country this year. No way has it been late teens.

It's 11pm here and it's 21c. Anyone with children must be wondering what they will have to face in their lives.

I don't remember ever being so hot and I love the heat, but I am menopausal so...
I have a fan but I hardly ever use it, so I'm coping better than literally everyone around me.

Prob is it's not just Andy, it has to be the whole world.

I'm fed up of hearing that last year was the hottest summer. Then this year is now the new hottest summer. Then ditto next year when again they say it's now the "new"-new hottest summer ever.

2006, 2017 and 2018 were the 3 summers I struggled with the most for the sheer length of their heat waves - 8 weeks each in those 3 years. July 2010 (4 weeks) was also a stinker.

@Propagandalf I think you're confusing the weather trends over the entire country with what's happening in the particular area where you happen to live.

Isn’t that what everyone does on these threads? Someone upthread said it gets hotter next week, whereas in the SE it will cool significantly next week. Also mid last week was cool too, highs of 23 and 24 (lows of 12 and 13). Whenever there’s a heatwave - which is always no more than a few days - you get threads like this where people seem to talk about it like we’ve had 30 degrees or more for months. We haven’t. There have definitely been cooler, more pleasant spells in between the utter hell.

I doubt the lengthy period without rain, but do think we will get days that fit the Met Office heatwave definition.

I thought after the last really hot summer we had..that we would have a bad winter..