Is this the worst (britishes) summer ever?

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..

TOO FUCKIN HOT ;)

^^^

I suppose this is the time when living in a damp basement flat turns out to be a good thing, I'm fine down here at the moment it's not hot at all :)

i need to get some hot weather underwear tips, my gusset's so swampy you could grow cress in it.

― feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, July 1, 2015 9:50 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

new answers plz

moving offices around today, i r melting

I'm regretting not getting a thobe when i had the chance.

I seem to have developed a surprising tolerance outdoors for 35 degree weather in the Gulf but British trains are unbearable and i can only imagine what the Tube is like.

Took refuge in a pub (well, to be honest I would have come here anyway) and now some bagpipe student is attempting to busk in the street. I like bagpipes as much as anyone, but Scotland the brave played badly for hours is infuriating.

I've been looking after a whippet today and he's not happy about the heat. He is intermittently happy to receive an ice cube every hour, and I'm on the iced coffee.

My labrador struggles in this heat, he has only had a short walk today and the poor old bugger is absolutely knackered.

we've got a lurcher who is basically a supersized whippet and she is just flat-out zonked all day long when it gets like this. it is basically only stupid humans who persist with doing stuff in this heat.

the weather here is literally perfect and I love it

most of us aren't so much stupid as compelled

Please post a whippetlurcher pic, I miss Kenny.

oh i don't think i have one on my phone at the mo, will see what i can do though

we've got a lurcher who is basically a supersized whippet and she is just flat-out zonked all day long when it gets like this. it is basically only stupid humans who persist with doing stuff in this heat.

Mad dogs and Englishmen. Be glad that your dog is sane.

it is so beautiful out there - baking lizard heat.

How many of you just did a 7-mile walk around the Herefordshire countryside though