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
try living in fucking scotland
― 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
I quite like this weather
― coal, Monday, 11 June 2012 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, a couple of the mid-90s ones were proper pipe ban worthy.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 June 2012 11:57 (eleven years ago) link
Umbrellas seem to have declined severely in quality: just disposing of a broken 'tote' (£4.50 from tesco) which lasted less than a week and itself replaced a boots umbrella (£10) which last 2 downpours.
I refuse to use the anti-social golf/bankers unbrellas, but they seem to the only ones manufactured to a reasonable quality.
― Bob Six, Monday, 11 June 2012 12:01 (eleven years ago) link
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I like the weird atmospheric effects aspect- the BT Tower is almost entirely invisible from my 6th floor office vantage point- it's just walking around in it that's the problem.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Monday, 11 June 2012 12:16 (eleven years ago) link
Don't think this is as bad as 2007 yet but its got time to get there
They're* working on it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/11/uk-weather-unsettled-next-month
*'they' being the secret evil people in the sky who send endless rain in my direction
― Pacific Trash Vortex (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 06:40 (eleven years ago) link
this is depressing even when i don't have to leave the house
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 08:16 (eleven years ago) link
I JUST WANT TO BE WARM IS THAT SO HARD
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 08:22 (eleven years ago) link
no i don't want to be warm i want to be REALLY HOT as I SHOULD BE IN THE SUMMER
soon as my parents die i'm emigrating tbh
― Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 09:21 (eleven years ago) link
This sodding weather has made me ill again. I feel like kicking the sky.
― Get wolves (DL), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 09:28 (eleven years ago) link
Heard someone talking about the Euro Monsoon the other day. Is that a thing?
― Zaireeka Badu (NickB), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 09:30 (eleven years ago) link
It does seem to completely shit it down for at least some of every June.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 09:40 (eleven years ago) link
Kinda relieved there's no Glastonbury this year.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 09:41 (eleven years ago) link
nah june's been great in recent years - last year was the first year the wimbledon roof was really needed and even then it was only for a couple of days iirc
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 09:44 (eleven years ago) link
whereas right now there are four separate tennis tournaments taking place in four different locations across europe and it's pissing down at ALL of them right now
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 09:45 (eleven years ago) link
You youngsters don't remember '76. To my 7-8yo brain, the heat went on forever. Enough blue skies to last a lifetime.
(Mind you, I think it's fair to say that, aside from about May 16-30, it has rained semi-continuously across most of GB since late March. Which is pretty amazin').
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 09:47 (eleven years ago) link
tbh i prefer the continuous drizzly grey right now to the incredibly frazzle-inducing uncertainty of BRIGHT BLUE SKIES for two hours followed without any warning by MISERABLE PISSY RAIN which abruptly switches back to BRIGHT SUNSHINE MAKING YOU UNCOMFORTALY HOT WHEN YOU DRESSED FOR THE RAIN and then GALE-FORCE HAIL, which is the mark of the british spring ie the worst of all seasons
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 09:52 (eleven years ago) link
British spring > British summer the last few years. Feels like a decent spring followed by a pissy summer followed by hot September is the natural way of things in Britain nowadays.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 10:01 (eleven years ago) link