Is this the worst (britishes) summer ever?

Top five wettest years in England in my life : 2000, 2002, 1998, 1999, 1974. The first six months of this year put it on target to come top.

Top five hottest years in England in my life: 2006, 1990, 2002, 1999, 2003. The first six months of this year also put it on target to come top.

Seems like it's getting hotter and wetter. This is the worst combination. No barbecues, no fun, just humidity. I'd happily take a bit of a cold summer if it was sunny all the time.

i wish people would stop saying britishes

/\ typical british reaction

It took me 11 hours to get from Wiltshire to Leicestershire yesterday (taking in a stop for some quite decent chinese food in Swanage) so it could have been worse. Also I saw the man from Bargain Hunt in the chinese restaurant so all was not lost.

That should be Wantage.

Not Swanage.

this has definitely made moving to chicago much, much easier. and then some.

It's all the fucking pagans fault.

spoke to parents in Tewkesbury today. worst they can remember it (no doubt not helped because they built an asda and several housing estates on the flood plain, duh!). brother slept in car on friday night because he couldn't get home from work.

basement flat here (W12) got flooded out as well, high water mark is 1/4 of the way up the back door. similar scenes all up the street, at least those houses with basement flats.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44014000/jpg/_44014086_glo_sun_aerial.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44014000/jpg/_44014078_worcs_sun_caravansfloat.jpg

I;m really hoping the witch downstairs is going to get flooded out, but SE24 remains dry.

I am leaving for two weeks walking and camping in pembrokeshire on friday. Wish me luck.

friday = wednesday

i have sung in that abbey 8) big centre page spread in todays guardian taken from the other side. (airspace above tewkesbury must be full of helicopters what with photographers and rescue choppers)

and why are so many caravans caught up in the flood? they are on wheels.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6806361,00.html

The three months from May to July have been the wettest on record even before July is over, the Met Office has revealed.

Figures show that 387.6mm of rain have already fallen across England and Wales, making it the wettest May to July since records began in 1766.

...and still it rains... :-(

This flooding is God's punishment on Britain for having too many caravans. It's true! He told me so.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=4583

so is this the end of the rain

(actually looking further north of britain the rain makes a comeback this weekend so "no")

So....

2007: unusually hot April, followed by three months of torrential rain and huge floods

2011: the hottest April ever (probably - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/24/april-warmest-britain-sun), followed by...?

The last couple of weeks have been absolutely fantastic and I've loved it. I just thought I should put that on record because I've been moaning about crap English summers for the last four years.

I'm considering buying a dehumidifier on Wednesday, so it'll probably be a complete washout from here until September.

Yeah, past 3-4 years have been blazing in April or May, then rained through the summer. Almost ready to think it is our new ~climate pattern~ but I'm sure that's a little premature as yet.

(I am a wimp and don't like anything above about 28 degrees, so if we do get a hotter summer than this I am going to be grumpy as hell all over ILX)

i've been thinking along the lines of yr first sentence meself

yr second sentence can do one tho

Britain's new climate pattern = "we don't know what the weather's going to be like from one week to the next" = Britain's old climate pattern

It's been very wet recently. Just saying.

it was the best april ever, though. and may was very good. im quietly confident.

I don't mind the rain. The post-rain humidity is pretty obnoxious, though.

It's a bit better today. I think people exaggerate the shitness of summers anyway. everyone seems to say that we get a great april and may and always a bad summer now but it's not really true. there was a heatwave for about 3 weeks in June last year, hottest Wimbledon ever etc. I don't remember any shortage of hot days last year.

It's been pretty warm despite the heavy showers.

I'm OK with this tbh. But that's cos I am with spacecadet:

(I am a wimp and don't like anything above about 28 degrees, so if we do get a hotter summer than this I am going to be grumpy as hell all over ILX)

Manchester has been disgusting. Dunno how much worse than the rest of the country it is but fuck this town

try living in fucking scotland

I don't think I'll be doing that, no.

I have cycled more miles in the rain in June than in the rest of the year put together. Haven't actually minded it that much but I would rather like it to stay blissfully sunny for the next week or so. A wet Glastonbury is an overrated thing.

21-23 degrees, chance of a shower, sunny spells = perfect summer.

fair point, cozen, but manchester cf. glasgow does have similar or slightly worse avg. rainfall stats apr-aug

personally my view is the hotter the better, i like absolutely scorching weather, it makes me feel alive.

rainy/hot/rainy/hot/rainy/hot

I like it this way

sorry that should read rainy/hot/rainy/hot/rainy/hot/rainy

apols vasco, wasn't aiming any ire at anyone in partic, just frustrated w/~rain~

a proper summer would be nice

i think the stop-start shit is what i hate most - either RAIN or DON'T RAIN stop fucking us around with bright blue skies one minute and torrents the next

makes it impossible to plan a damn thing

emerged from my bathroom into the hall just now, was pitch fucking dark. thought it was the apocalypse.

i'm with LG - hotter the better. if it's too hot, do less.

but the rain cools you off when you're hot! Then the sun dries you out when you're wet!
also it smells good after it rains when it's hot. Actually usually it does, it just smells like sewers in east London.

hit by a little June hail there. Lovely.

I think people exaggerate the shitness of summers anyway. everyone seems to say that we get a great april and may and always a bad summer now but it's not really true. there was a heatwave for about 3 weeks in June last year

Yeah, 2007 was the only complete washout, the last few years have seen some good weather at times in June or July. My problem is that (working in education) I have to have my holiday in August and August has been wet and grey and shite for the last four years running.

I don't care about the temperature (within reason), I just like sunshine. A sunny day at 22C is far better than a rainy day at 30C. If we have to have rain (apparently plants and reservoirs need them, or something) I'd rather it fell entirely at night, or when I'm stuck at work all day.

Also getting wet in the rain makes you look sexy.

Why, thank you

you are entirely welcome

Sat outside eating and drinking in Manchester atm after a bike ride, all's well here.

there's nothing good about british rain tbh

cooked tarpaulin: delicious

tarpaulin: not a vegetable

noted

Seems to be a lingering gloomy overcastness in London at the moment. A bit of sunshine wouldn't hurt.

Let's not get greedy, at least it's not relentlessly pishing it down - that's scheduled for tomorrow.

This summer has been strange. The early part was much drier, warmer, and sunnier than recent years. There was hardly any rain for months. All the streams and brooks out in the country were completely dried up. Now, it's gone the other way and the last six weeks, or something like that, have been predominantly cloudy with constant outbreaks of rain, not necessarily heavy most of the time but enough to spoil things.

it's my fault, I went to cornwall on holiday and that's when it all went shit.

You know, it's been fine in Fife the past couple of days - even nice today. Unfortunately it's the start of the Lammas market today, which means lots of people/noise, which isn't my thing.

oh take a day off, rain

i mean, i know August is usually shit and then it gets nice again, but September is going to have to be flipping TREMENDOUS to make up for this. i'm actually starting to panic that this is it until next April

The Bank Holiday weekend is going to be hot. It is meant to be 27 degrees on Monday.

lol, that has been revised down to 19 degrees since i checked this morning.

I sometimes wonder if we need a 'Is this the worst Scottishes Summer ever' thread. When it's raining here you guys are sunny. It's quite nice today - I sat outside and read for a while - but you guys are getting soggy.

Thank fuck its great this weekend.

rain is good not bad

george benson no less once explained this to me wrt the lovely greenness of england = one of its few positive features

Rain in Autumn plz.

george benson no less once explained this to me wrt the lovely greenness of england = one of its few positive features

I have often explained to my colleagues from Europe that this is why Great Britain and Ireland is so green - I can now use George Benson to bolster my argument.

it is autumn

but rain is summer is also good

as g.benson teaches us

I can remember a bad NME article on footballers and music that trash-talked George Benson. It summarised that professional footballers with perms and a penchant for George Benson = bad. And people like Pat Nevin with a well documented love of white indie rock = good and progressive. It would probably look very very bad now. To keep it topical, it is quite warm and balmy up here today. Might cut the hedges.

Sat in my gardeb drinking vodka and reading Moomin comics. That's a good day by my standards. Clouding over now.

(garden, obv)

Is this the best (britishes) summer ever?

feared this might be the mithering Indonesia shut-in freak. but yes - we shall enjoy these years, before the Great Die-Off

*mothering of some shut-in freak, bloody autocorrect

MITHERING

I'm sitting in the sun reading a book anyhow :)

Could do with a little rain every now and then if it's anything like this side of the Irish sea. Authorities are talking about drought.
BUt nice and sunny. Just could do with a little interspersing water refreshment innit.

Oh I'm expecting drought warnings any time soon.

we had some rain in london the other night and it just made it hot AND sticky, rather than just hot.

Of course I'm missing all the good weather through working and then sitting indoors all day watching football when I'm not working.