Is this the worst (britishes) summer ever?

As always I will be the guy who reminds people of the time this summer when it was 25 degrees and glorious sunshine (aka yesterday)

???

Not in East London. Muggy, muggy, muggy then absolutely torrential downpour that left people desperately clinging to driftwood.

Yeah we do seem to get the best of it tbf, tho it was downright chilly the other week. But yeah we've had a full week+ of lovely hot sunny weather, albeit the kind of weather that is obviously building towards summer storms

Yeah, the week before this one was 9C-11C most days which was ridiculous for June.

just got back from portugal and feek very immediately at home

brief madness of thinking i might remove my mudguards for the summer has passed

yesterday i took my chances with the 50% probability of precipitation and went out for the day wearing shorts. absolutely fucked it

I remember really torrential rain outside my school window in June. It's definitely a characteristic thing for this month.

Unbelievable, biblical rain atm. Possibly the heaviest I have ever seen in this country. Just had to bail out my lean-to with a coffee mug.

the rain washed away my internet, BT tell me it'll take a week to dry

39 degrees in Paphos

I went out for a walk just now, and it was cold enough that I needed a jacket, but then warm enough so that after a mile I was sweating and took the jacket off. But at the same time it felt like it would piss down at any moment. Also a tick bit me, although it immediately died. So go me and my toxic blood, apparently.

think london weather meant to improve middle of next week. currently on holiday.

I've been anxiously glancing at the Glastonbury weather about once an hour for the last few days, most forecasts do show things improving next week.

Just started slashing it down again.

our house is leaking!

The fact that our house doesn't leak when it rains is about the one good thing about it.

don't remember there ever being so many storms in a short period of time

The hopeful optimism:

think london weather meant to improve middle of next week.

most forecasts do show things improving next week.

The reality:

Torrential rain brings widespread flooding in south-east England. Fire brigades inundated with emergency calls and London expected to register a month’s rainfall in a matter of hours.

VOTE LEAVE

Local weather gods under tory control or something?
Make everybody voting feel misanthropic or basically anti-world solipsistic so thex do vote Leave or something even more vehement.
Whereas obviously if the sun was shining everybody'd feel so much more positive and world embracing including their European brethren and sestren. So vote the intelligent way. Innit?

Is LJ a Brexiteer?

30 degrees in Paris today, vote remain to ease my periodic summer escapes to miserably pissy rain

Ugh, shaken from deep sleep at 2am by world's loudest thunderclap.

that was some loud-ass thunder

yes siree

i couldnt sleep until about 230am.

had just been watching the channel 4 show on the referendum, and then the thunder and lightning started. perfectly foreboding weather for the vote today i thought.

Slightly disappointed that unless I've slept thru them (diazepam) we haven't had any proper good thunderstorms, just some impressively torrential rain and horribly muggy conditions

the clammy air makes me feel like i've got an illness of some kind.

I'm in WC1 so it's easy to think a noise like that is something important getting blown up. Took ages for me and weather to settle down.

i'm in se7, could have been the co-op i guess

transport - trains AND buses - were typically late/congested today. can our transport system handle any remotely difficult weather conditions?

So hot in Fife. At least for my pale, ginger, celtic tastes. Sat outside to read for less than an hour and I got a little burned.

I wish this rain would just fuck off

yes?

worst summer in every way

Got to agree.

I got my first real Brexit
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Voted 'til my fingers bled
Was the summer of '16 *whine*

thunder and lightning proves the gods knew what was coming.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/03/june-weather-rainfall-temperature-wind-sunshine

nicer today though. let's enjoy the next few hours.

Yesterday in London (Holland Park) was my ideal: 19 degrees with a nice breeze, and slightly cloudy so you're not getting uncomfortably burnt sitting outside in direct sunlight.

this weather makes me think i need one of those jackets i had as a kid, where you could unbutton/unzip the sleeves.

Yesterday seemed like the first day of a nice summer, but it's back to rain today. Maybe brighter later?

Bucketing down.

Pissing down and freezing

it was *unbelievably* rainy these last few days for July. this year's weather has really matched the general mood and the generally dreadful news.

Yeah we'll get a late summer when Jeremy gets into #10 innit? Novemberish is a very late summer.

Somebody was trying to break down months into seasons the other day and I don't know how it fits. Assuming that it is roughly equal division of 4.

Does summer or spring get marked by the appearance of May, as in Hawthorne as far as I understand it. i.e. ne'er cast a clout til may is about is actually about another name for the plant hawthorne not the month. Or so I heard.

I wish it were even but in reality winter lasts about 5 months and autumn often seens to be over in a fortnight

TOO FUCKIN HOT ;)

yeah wtf is this

If you can't stand it this hot, say "I CAN'T STAND IT THIS HOT!!! (this will be a short thread,timewise, no doubt); but this office is pretty cool so..