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.
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link
It's been pretty warm despite the heavy showers.
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:20 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
Manchester has been disgusting. Dunno how much worse than the rest of the country it is but fuck this town
― forest zombie (Vasco da Gama), Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
try living in fucking scotland
― rolling stupid fruity crazy vag cru (cozen), Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Upt0eleven, Saturday, 18 June 2011 11:12 (twelve years ago) link
21-23 degrees, chance of a shower, sunny spells = perfect summer.
― resonate with awesomeness (jel --), Saturday, 18 June 2011 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
fair point, cozen, but manchester cf. glasgow does have similar or slightly worse avg. rainfall stats apr-aug
― forest zombie (Vasco da Gama), Saturday, 18 June 2011 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
personally my view is the hotter the better, i like absolutely scorching weather, it makes me feel alive.
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Saturday, 18 June 2011 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
rainy/hot/rainy/hot/rainy/hot
I like it this way
― owenf, Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
sorry that should read rainy/hot/rainy/hot/rainy/hot/rainy
― owenf, Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
apols vasco, wasn't aiming any ire at anyone in partic, just frustrated w/~rain~
a proper summer would be nice
― vag vag vag (cozen), Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
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
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
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 love the smell of facepalm in the morning (ledge), Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
i'm with LG - hotter the better. if it's too hot, do less.
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:40 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― owenf, Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
hit by a little June hail there. Lovely.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Food Processors Are Grebt (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
Also getting wet in the rain makes you look sexy.
― owenf, Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
Why, thank you
― Food Processors Are Grebt (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
you are entirely welcome
― owenf, Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
Sat outside eating and drinking in Manchester atm after a bike ride, all's well here.
― not_goodwin, Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
there's nothing good about british rain tbh
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Saturday, 18 June 2011 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
apocalypse, I hear you. I was trying to watch Frasier and it was hailing so hard the satellite dish stopped working.
― kraudive, Saturday, 18 June 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
you have to already look sexy for this to really work
― blueski, Saturday, 18 June 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
Love stop-start rain and sunshine. But it should rain and sun at the same time. Bit too grim at the min.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 June 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
no it doesn't....it makes my hair plastered to my head
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Saturday, 18 June 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
I have an umbrella, protects me from looking even sexier.
― resonate with awesomeness (jel --), Saturday, 18 June 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.thetraveldepartment.co.uk/scotsman/getattachment/d7ff8a1c-662c-4c57-af28-a929364b1756/UK-Cotswolds-British-Countryside.aspx
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 18 June 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
though today, I guess the showers are annoying...have adapted my step ladder as an airer, so I can get my jeans in from the garden more quickly.
― resonate with awesomeness (jel --), Saturday, 18 June 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
― rolling stupid fruity crazy vag cru (cozen), Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:51 (5 hours ago)
cloudy with a chance of hitler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2USUxuy_9w
― blueski, Saturday, 18 June 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
Worst snow for 20 years in December, hottest April ever known, coldest August since 1993, and now from nowhere it's turned into the summer we never had just as we're reaching October.
― Mister Potato shares Manchester United’s commitment to (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
Just think how nice it will be when they finally install that Global Warming they keep talking about...
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
meh, this is all normal imo. somehow Britishes people brainwash themselves every year into thinking it's gonna be sunny in August, when it blates never ever is.
― dog latin, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
I remember more sunny Sep/Octs, it's true.
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
The voice of doom returns. The wettest April on record: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17897982 and May's been pretty shit so far (apocalyptic hailstorm a couple of hours ago).
― Pacific Trash Vortex (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Well, the UK could do with the rain.
― gyac, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ raining here now
― banal like anal (snoball), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
it's possible to have rain without it being 10 degrees with gusting winds
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah true but i hate that warm, muggy air you get when there's loads of moisture in the air.
there's also the selfish shit factor of crap weather = fewer tourists wandering around aimlessly on my route to work.
― gyac, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
anyone else still got the heating system and extra fleeces on standby ?
f*ck the need for water in reservoirs, i'm fed up with this shit.
― mark e, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah, we've had the heating on several times in the last few weeks. I also keep thinking it's time to break out the warm weather harrington, but random, heavy, regular rain means have also been rocking the Berghaus for about a month longer than normal.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
Sigh....
― Pacific Trash Vortex (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 11 June 2012 07:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SoDcgf0%2BL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― Fizzles, Monday, 11 June 2012 07:55 (eleven years ago) link
Was seriously considering wearing my wellies to go to a gig last night
― Zaireeka Badu (NickB), Monday, 11 June 2012 07:57 (eleven years ago) link
The Wurzels was it?
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Monday, 11 June 2012 10:15 (eleven years ago) link
how many days of unbroken actual hot sunny weather do we get a year these days? seems like way fewer than when i were a lad; can't be more than 15 days max. should be used to it now i suppose but the UK is basically freezing, pishing, cloudy, cold or gloomy for 85-90% of the year.
― piscesx, Monday, 11 June 2012 10:57 (eleven years ago) link
Don't think this is as bad as 2007 yet but its got time to get there. I remember 2009 being a decent summer, but I don't think we've had a proper long hot summer since maybe 2006? Definitely remember there being at least two glorious ones back in the mid-00s.
― Matt DC, Monday, 11 June 2012 11:29 (eleven years ago) link
Haha no, it was the ironically named Sunn O)))
More like Rainn :((( amirite etc
― Zaireeka Badu (NickB), Monday, 11 June 2012 11:30 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Friday, 6 July 2018 11:53 (five years ago) link
Oh I'm expecting drought warnings any time soon.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Friday, 6 July 2018 12:15 (five years ago) link
we had some rain in london the other night and it just made it hot AND sticky, rather than just hot.
― koogs, Friday, 6 July 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link
Of course I'm missing all the good weather through working and then sitting indoors all day watching football when I'm not working.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Friday, 6 July 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link