Is this the worst (britishes) summer ever?

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.

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6050/6246370869_fd7127eb08_z.jpg

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:
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r299/crunchydog_2006/rain.jpg
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.

It's so unfair.

fully expecting the government to intervene in advance of the olympics with some sort of secret rain-busting technology,but i'm kind of getting into this cloudforest vibe at the moment. put on some popol vuh, make more coffee, watch the raindrops dripping down from the leaves

i am just acting like it's proper summer. may be going slightly mental.

lay in bed listening to it piss down for much of the early morning, contemplating the strange, non-season weather.

cos basically it sounded like September out there.

It's horribly humid. I wouldn't mind the rain if it had the decency to go for the full autumnal vibe and be cold as well.

Getting kinda disappointed in my BritILX peeps, when the only regular BritILX thread going is complaining about a summer full of rain, which happens like clockwork, every damn year. But no one is debating or saying interesting things or making points about the unholy plague of banking scandals right now, which happen like.... oh.

Never mind.

if it helps I did also lay in bed contemplating the grotesque manipulative greed of the banking system, where absolute moral collapse and widespread systemic criminality is somehow seen as normal, justifiable, free of consequence, which also is indicative of the total separation of those who control financial forces (forces that, like the weather, are everywhere, and affect everyone all the time) and the successive governments that connived in their criminality, from the general populus, ie those for whom a bank is basically a cashpoint and a perspex encased teller.

I woke up quite early.

I was almost going to put an addendum after that post to say "that was a pathetic attempt at a joke, BTW, not a carp or a condemnation" but I thought any joke which needed to be flagged as a joke probably isn't funny.

Rain in June and political/economic scandals, the great inevitables? Probably not funny, I suppose, even for dark humour.

when i was a child the summers were sunnier and the banks were less bent tbh

May and June are normally OK for weather; July and August have been ropey as hell the last few summers though, iirc. This year is just a complete washout though. Two good weeks in March, two in May. I've barely ridden my bike because it's just depressing.

Are these like the fabled sunny British summers of the 80s that I missed while I was out of the country, like the fabled era of Thatcher prosperity?

i seemed to spend a lot more time playing out with my mates than wd be practicable today

it doesn't rain every year, 2010 was awesome. 2009 had a massive heatwave for weeks too.

do ya remember 95 eh, eh?

remember making my confirmation

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r299/crunchydog_2006/summergraph.jpg
How good/bad our summers have been recently AS PROVEN BY SCIENCE!

This looks at a combination of temperatures, rainfall and sunshine hours and how much higher/lower than average they were. A figure of zero means it was pretty normal, anything above means better than normal and below means worse. So 2003 was great, 2005 was good, 2006 was mostly brilliant, the last five summers have been mostly shit (except 2010 started off well) with some spectacularly poor Augusts. This is using data for Heathrow.

we've still got time!

#prayforsummer

three months of record rainfall following seven months of below average rainfall

hmmn

Today was nice. I got a little sunburnt while gardening in Hackney.

today = shit though.

Nice weather for ducks

sense of smugness at having pre-emptively rejected every festival going this weekend :)

yday was nice, lovely evening. you take what you can get now in these end times.

you take what you can get now in these end times

Oh great, looting has started and no-one told me...

the bbc has a 10 day forecast now

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2643743

it looks like much the same as recently, but warmer

hot and wet but not in a good way

oh, i like that average-weather chart down the bottom, that's a neat corrective to fantasy summers past.

oh, i like that average-weather chart down the bottom, that's a neat corrective to fantasy summers past.

Not really - it just proves that this is much worse than actual summers past. That chart says the average rain for June is 45mm. We had well over double that last month. The met office report for June:

The weather was dominated by low pressure over or close to the UK, with associated weather fronts. These brought rather cool days, some very large rainfall totals and also some strong winds early in the month. There was an almost complete absence of warm, settled spells.

The UK mean temperature was 0.3 °C below the 1971-2000 average and it was the coolest June since 1991. Daily maximum temperatures were well below normal, particularly in many central and eastern areas, with few warm days. Almost all areas were much wetter than normal, especially across much of England and Wales, southern and eastern Scotland and Northern Ireland. It was the wettest June across the UK in the series from 1910 (wetter than June 2007), and the equal-wettest June in the England and Wales series from 1766 (shared with June 1860). Only the far north-west of Scotland was drier than normal. Almost all areas were duller than usual, and it was provisionally the second dullest June in the series from 1929.

xp Oh, that must be a London-only thing. The Met office has some nice graphs compared to past averages too:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/anomalygraphs/

I find this thread funny because my personal idea of how summer is different now than during the 80s is p. much the opposite of everyone else's. It may be wet this year but it's still not cold. I find summer too hot these days and don't remember doing so as a kid (admittedly probably because I wasn't quite so fat as a kid).