Well summers over

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Soooooo depressing 😭

The Midlands doesn't look too bad, not hot but not cold and some rain but not every day.

I'll take that....!

Ah sorry I didnt think about this! I hope the sun shines where you are to help dry out the wheat crops.

As someone who suffers from SAD, I need sunshine, it’s my medicine! Well along with actual antidepressants.

It’s all very well and good saying dress for the weather but that costs money and oh yeah, cost of living crisis. I still have to walk the dog of course but my wellies have a hole in and o can’t even afford new once. We also have a teenager so can hardly pop him in a puddle suit and take him to splash in the puddles! And we can’t afford to take him to indoor activities as they all cost money so gaming it is I suppose ☹️.

There's still always SOME sunshine, and you can still get your vitamin d's worth when it's cloudy

It's so much better for going out for a walk this year than last year - I've got out every day

Last year there was about 2 weeks when I didn't go out in that heatwave

I will take cool and wet over extreme heat any day.

Just back from a week in the Hebrides. Sunny every day bar one, swam in the sea most days too (albeit quick dips! 😅)

Yeah, it’s pretty depressing. We don’t typically go away in July and August so that we can enjoy the warm weather here in London but that hasn’t exactly materialised this year!

We had a staycation in Aldeburgh last weekend and it was so goddamn windy it actually felt like late autumn.

Desperately looking forward to our Greece trip in September now.

What's sad is that, as I understand it anyway, our dismal weather is connected with the horrifying-in-the-opposite-way weather in southern Europe - and of course this may happen more and more often now 😢

Have you read the thread by the farmer? I think we’ve had enough rain!

Considering Thames Water leak about a third of the water supply - they’d have a job justifying a hosepipe ban right now.

Agree. We love in rural Derbyshire. With animals. The trees we've have come down you wouldn't believe. It's been a really shit spring and summer, interspersed with a week of decent sun in June before the storms came and gave us the worst flooding we've ever had here.

Like a PP said, whether you live rurally or urban, it does make a difference. We have at least six months of shitty mud, rain and cold, the summer needs to temper it a bit and crops need some warmth to grow.

This cool air, wind and rain is shite and makes it hard work growing things!!

The sodding wind is maddening!!!

I see someone has started a ‘cosy’ thread already in chat. I mean in July. How long do they want to snuggle/fester under a blanket for? Is 9 months not enough. They are talking about Christmas and Halloween. I’m going to need to hide it (or get banned from Mumsnet)

I feel your pain . Teenage ds keeps giving me more clothes to wash and we're going away Tuesday!! I've sain no more as i desperately try to dtu stuff over the maiden/dryer. Nightmare.

Tbf we have had a pretty decent summer so far. Yes, it's rainy and grey atm but it won't be forever. In a week or so I'm sure the sun will be out again and summer will reappear. After summer, people always moan forgetting the 8/10 weeks of summer focusing on the 2 weeks of rain.

8/10 weeks out of 52 is not a lot of summer though!

We had a decent 3 weeks in June. It’s been cool and rainy for the whole of July so that’s at least 4 weeks with no sign of improvement for at least another 2. So that’s 6 weeks. No the sun is not forecast to reappear in a week or so. This weather is set to continue. It looks worse next week than this week. It’s cooler.

If the sun does reappear after the long range forecast that’s mid August so 2 weeks until September. That’s not a good summer in my mind.

And we haven’t had 8/10 weeks and we won’t. We’ve had 3. The current forecast is that it ‘may’ improve and settle down mid August.

There's still always SOME sunshine

That may be true for you, but it's not true where I live.

This is why I only go on holiday in the Uk outside of summer - at times when you're not expecting good weather, so you plan for rain and any day without it is a bonus. It's just so depressing to fork out a frigging fortune on a holiday in peak season, to be rained on. I would genuinely rather stay at home and do day trips.

I believe I need to apologise to everyone. I bought a new garden parasol last week so have probably jinxed the summer. Sorry.

We're heading to Cornwall for 2 weeks camping next week with 3 children. It's all we can afford and the only holiday we'll have until next summer, and next year will likely be every penny spent on the increased mortgage payments so may not even get away then.
The weather is looking, at worst wet and at best not very warm, highs of 20 at most.
Camping when it's constantly damp is miserable. We'll still go to the beach but can't do full days like the kids love to. Will end up spending much more on indoor stuff.
We've camped loads in rain, but it tends to be one or two days. Not two weeks.
Feeling very anxious about it all.
First world problems I know, but I want the kids to have a nice holiday.

I'm going to need you to explain this to the dogs, because they definitely blame me.

Weather is really nice where I am today. Sunny and a lovely soft breeze. The park is full of people.

My dog keeps going to the back door to check if it’s still raining then coming back, lying on the sofa and letting out massive sighs and falling back to sleep. I might join him, there’s nothing else to do!

Must be a different climate in the NW then!