I keep hearing this. The ‘if this happened in July or August, it would have been 40c’. The issue I have with this statement is, we don’t know for sure a 40c would have been achieved with absolute confidence. Second, it didn’t happen, and we ended up with a very drab period of weather in July and early August.
All I wanted was a decent run of days into the mid 20s and a few 30c scattered about. We don’t wish for 35c for period of heat, but a longer period of nice usable sunny warm weather.
I personally didn’t find summer 2022 too bad, outside of the 40c day, which even itself was a dry heat. The long hot sunny days of August were very clear and sunny, and it felt like a nice long summer for once. Something we don’t get enough of in this country.
Summer 23 was more of a return to the usual miserable and depressing summer weather we have come to know in the last 8 years or so. I think this is probably more of a symptom of climate change moving forward, and we won’t be having more summers like 2018 or 22, but more 2023 and 21s, which really does feel me with dread.
If we have bleak winters, to be followed by bleak summers, is it any wonder why people are so depressed in the U.K?
There’s a queue in this forum who would love to do that in practice at my front door lol.