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
late March/early April = niceLate September/early October = niceeverything inbetween = pizzling slipper weather
it's been like this for years
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
I think we're trying to impose a fixed order on something inherently chaotic - I known some bad March and Aprils.
Are the Met Office still peddling the 'still lower than average for year so far' line?
― Bob Six, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
i think a lot of these reminiscences are amiss somehow and that the pattern over the last decade or so is just greater polarization & unpredictability
like between the current weather pattern and the dull/crap weather of april-early may there was about ten days of very settled weather
the transition from winter to spring was really abrupt, about a fortnight of the tempreature hovering around freezing and then 16 degree days in late february
the end of last autumn was really strange, i remember it being about 26 degrees in the evening in early october, high summer weather with autumn light
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
i think every month from september to march had below average rainfall in london, significantly below average in some instances but because you don't tend to notice rainfall levels as much in winter when it is dark and cold anyway as in say june
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
This seems to suggest the 70s/80s were a blip
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/actualmonthly/14/Rainfall/UK.gif
― Stevie T, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
Quite a lot of rainy summers at the very end of that graph though.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
Relatively okay weather during WWI then, don't know what they were all complaining about with that trench foot shite.
― Zaireeka Badu (NickB), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
that was amazing. was still swimming outside in October. Those times, where the light has implicit in it all the sensory and emotional content of one season, or micro-season, but the atmospheric conditions are redolent of another are extremely peculiar and delightful to savour - like having a vivid memory that is not your own. you feel but loosely anchored to yourself, or a sudden sense of fictionality.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
June and i'm sitting here in a fucking cardigan
― Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
it was quite nice in london today! went to the shops in just a t-shirt, have window open atm etc
dare i hope this lasts
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
Oh god 76 was just too bloody hot. Remember spending about half of it on a canal boat on the Upper Thames just dying of heat.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
i sunburned my legs in 76 - maybe 77 - so badly i couldn't walk for a day
― Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
I was born in June '76 and apparently didn't wear any clothes for the first two months of my life. Wait. That can't be true, surely. Will quiz my mum on it next weekend for our joint birthday celebration.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 14 June 2012 09:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6050/6246370869_fd7127eb08_z.jpg
oct 15 2011
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 June 2012 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
i moved down from scotland late last september, where we were having iirc a standard scottish early autumn. would hardly have been more of a shock to the system had i moved to venus.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 14 June 2012 10:00 (eleven years ago) link
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST JUST FUCK OFF, WEATHER, JUST FUCK OFF
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Sunday, 24 June 2012 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
Must be time to dust off my long-standing conspiracy theory that our education system is deliberately crap at teaching people foreign languages, otherwise most of the UK population would pack up and move to sunnier, dryer climes.
― Bob Six, Sunday, 24 June 2012 12:01 (eleven years ago) link
(And UK Governments deliberately encourage a housing market/mortgage system rather than a more flexible rental market which would also see people bugger off abroad for years, if not for ever.)
― Bob Six, Sunday, 24 June 2012 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
1 month of rain in 1 day http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/24/flooding-northern-england-river-calder?newsfeed=true
local outdoor gigs being messed up and called off left right and centre up here too, although tonight's Paul Weller gig at Jodrell Bank is also off so it's not all bad.
― piscesx, Sunday, 24 June 2012 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
thats a shitty thing to say.
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 24 June 2012 13:10 (eleven years ago) link
will no-one think of the aging mod tards?
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 June 2012 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
How's the Hackney Weekend holding up? Holding a festival on a fucking marsh never seemed like the most sensible of ideas.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 24 June 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link