Is this the worst (britishes) summer ever?

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Was seriously considering wearing my wellies to go to a gig last night

The Wurzels was it?

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.

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.

The Wurzels was it?

Haha no, it was the ironically named Sunn O)))

More like Rainn :((( amirite etc

I quite like this weather

Yeah, a couple of the mid-90s ones were proper pipe ban worthy.

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.

I quite like this weather

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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.

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

this is depressing even when i don't have to leave the house

I JUST WANT TO BE WARM IS THAT SO HARD

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

This sodding weather has made me ill again. I feel like kicking the sky.

Heard someone talking about the Euro Monsoon the other day. Is that a thing?

It does seem to completely shit it down for at least some of every June.

Kinda relieved there's no Glastonbury this year.

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

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

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').

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

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.

late March/early April = nice
Late September/early October = nice
everything inbetween = pizzling slipper weather

it's been like this for years

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?

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

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

This seems to suggest the 70s/80s were a blip

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/actualmonthly/14/Rainfall/UK.gif

Quite a lot of rainy summers at the very end of that graph though.

Relatively okay weather during WWI then, don't know what they were all complaining about with that trench foot shite.

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

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.

June and i'm sitting here in a fucking cardigan

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

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.

i sunburned my legs in 76 - maybe 77 - so badly i couldn't walk for a day

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.

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.

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oct 15 2011

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.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST JUST FUCK OFF, WEATHER, JUST FUCK OFF

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.

(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.)

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.

thats a shitty thing to say.

will no-one think of the aging mod tards?

How's the Hackney Weekend holding up? Holding a festival on a fucking marsh never seemed like the most sensible of ideas.

h8 the way the festival's encroaching on one of the most unspoiled areas round here as if the scorched earth approach to vicky park wasn't enough

no idea how it's going, was out of london yesterday, hopefully it's so muddy that everyone's put off making it happen again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18653274

Officially the wettest April-June ever (and June isn't even quite finished yet). Ironically, in the middle of all of this, I managed to get hopelessly sunburnt on Tuesday in London.

I got slightly sunburnt standing at Preston station for 3 hours waiting for a replacement bus service to take us past the floods and landslides and up to Carlisle so I could get to Glasgow. No buses. Taxi to Carlisle, no trains there either. Weather + rail chaos, the most britishest things of all?

This week:
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and beyond:
UK Outlook for Sunday 8 Jul 2012 to Tuesday 17 Jul 2012:
The generally unsettled picture is expected to continue throughout the outlook period. Although all areas are prone to showers or longer spells of rain, initially the focus of the most persistent rain is likely to be across central, southern and eastern Britain, while northwestern areas probably escape the worst of the weather. Through the middle of next week, conversely, the wettest conditions look likely to spread to northern and western parts, with some drier and brighter spells in the south and east. Any rain could be heavy and thundery at times. Continuing changeable right through to the middle of July. Most areas becoming breezy after this weekend, especially in northern and western parts, where there is a risk of coastal gales at times. Temperatures often rather cool in rain.