Sunny76

The late August bank holiday was nothing special, but it does depend on location. For me, apart from the storms on the Saturday 26th, which felt warm and humid, with the previous few days of hot sunshine early that week, the days following the storms felt kind of chilly.

I’m not going to continue to argue with you. You said black, I say white, let’s call the whole thing off. Or you say black, and I say white, summer 23 was a barrel of dung

Lol it didn’t feel cold as far as you are concerned. Do you ever consider other people didn’t find it warm? Just wondering is all.

Cloud can equal humid, but humid can also feel cold if you are by the sea or under rainy conditions for longer periods. Yeah, but it was a below par month for sunshine where I was.

Stats do tell the fact, but it’s like in winter if the months come out milder average, some people will still feel cold. Likewise a summertime daytime high of 22-24c with cloud and wind will feel much different to 22-24c with sunshine. Yes August was usable, and did improve, but there were quite a few poor days for outdoor activities.

Yes, there was a slight improvement in mid August, but it was still only a handful of days. There were still cool and dull mornings in the last week, after the southeast were hit by thunderstorms on the 26th. Granted, I did enjoy that storm. Mine aren’t wrong. It has nothing to do with people’s perceptions, if what they witness was actually true. I felt cold and it was mostly crappy cloudy weather.

Even though I’m missing it, I’m glad others are making the most of what was in very short supply after late June. Yeah same.

No, it’s not inaccurate. It felt cool windy and was definitely cloudy. An awful period of high summer weather.

If it makes you feel better mate, today is the first day of sunshine and 28c I’m getting since Sunday. Monday until yesterday was dull and humid, with also a cool feeling when the wind kicked in, and some thunderstorms thrown into the mix. Thankfully we didn’t get caught up in the awful floods about 100 miles or further south and west of us. It’s been really bad over this part of the world. Back on the sun lounger now and ready to bake and swim

I think the constant whining in July was way more justified. It was miserable for far longer this summer, compared to any hot spell. My co worker is the same. He’s just a misery lol.

Yes, and then there’s a december like 2010. That could very happen again at some point.

Hmm, not sure I agree. I would take a 2018 summer hands down, if we had a February like 2018, and a December like 2022(the cold frosty part). But, with more evaporation caused by warming of the North Atlantic, surely the end result will be more cloudier and humid summers. The only way to avoid the cloudy humid option is, a dominant easterly flow, but then we have the cold North Sea clag to continue with. Then we end up with a cool cloudy summer scenario.

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.

Or a lump of something else, but let’s not go there.

I understand the need for support to people who are of poor health. But, the heat alerts are another move towards the nanny state. It’s like we are raising a generation of people now, who can barely leave the house if they hear someone sneeze, or hear it’s going to be blowing a gale of 30 miles per hour, or the current subject matter.

That’s how us heat lovers felt like back in May, when it took forever to wait for something nice and warm. But, I feel your pain about the wait for a decent dumping of snow. I thought last winter provided quite a decent amount of cold chilly days, with more drier periods than the previous winter. Ok, blame me. Here comes the Bartlett man

Mr Bartlett, bring me a dream! Mr Bartlett rap - Mr Frosty is a biatch.

January 80 was a cold month, and I think the Trevor Harley site states it was mostly clear and sunny. December was very mild in the south during the first half, and February 80 was very mild. 79/80 wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, but it probably felt very mild compared to the previous cold winter of 78/79. If 79/80 was cold and snowy in Scotland, surely 81/82 was much better and 86/87?

Good old Mr Bartlett.

There’s been a number of them, but very cold ones are few and far between. The same goes for hot summers. Few and far between. Also, you are still too young to remember some very cold winters. You were born in 1987. Its your fault lol.

Yeah, even in the 70s and 80s, we had very mild winter months. Even before the late 1987 warming period. 79/80 had some ridiculously mild temps in the first half of December and very high minima.

Yeah, even 35c won’t be regular every single summer. We seem to have 32-33c nailed on in most summers. 40c isn’t going to happen that frequently, or for every long periods for a long time.

Yes, that’s true. But, the heat spikes rarely last very long, 3-5 days at a push. Then it’s several weeks of cool cloudy clag, or just average temps of around 21-22c with unremarkable high summer conditions. I still feel the heatwave warnings are blown a little bit out of proportion. London Tonight are the worst culprits for it. They will also go overboard with the cold weather if there’s a hint of light snow falling or a few colder days dropping to 0-3c.

So, you understand that your 10-13c is my 30c. You don’t feel the cold, and I don’t feel the heat until it becomes really hot. Yeah it’s a case of guilt tripping I feel. People should be allowed to enjoy the warm sunny weather, which is very rare for long periods in the U.K.

Yeah, that’s a fair point. I still think though, with the warming climate, it doesn’t necessarily mean nice hot and sunny. It can be usually cloudy and humid by default. Something I’ve noticed more about our summers since around 2019ish. Also we have a habit of getting a mix of cloudy and humid, but it can also feel cool and humid also. So, we are left with non summery type conditions, despite being warmer than average.