Bring Back Proper Summers!

I love the sunshine but dread the heat - I'm very fair skinned and at the first hint of it, I'm covered by prickly heat rash and get a dodgy tummy- I feel quite unwell. Unfortunately, my job means I have to be outside a lot of the time (SEN school) because some of the students can't tolerate classroom learning. (I'm looking for something different to do but my skills are limited to education.)

Outside thermometer said 31 on my sheltered patio yesterday. Apart from one real thunderstorm at the beginning of the week no rain for around 4 weeks, getting fed up of watering by hand. Too hot to sit outside until around 6/7pm when there's a bit of shade. Now tell me who doesn't believe in climate change!

Noooo. I adore this weather and am making the most of every moment. Can catch up with stuff inside next week..

Love the pic foxygloves

I agree with keepcalmandcavachon and Witzend how I remember " it may be brightening up a little" as we huddled under the sea wall for cover.

Isn't summer 3 months long?
As soon as the children are home from school, you will get the weather you're hoping for🤣

This IS a proper summer.

We have had three weeks without a drop of rain, and moderately warm weather (25 C or thereabouts, so its not hot yet) but we don't have to have heating on indoors, and I don't need to mow the grass.

And weeding the garden path is easier as the weeds don't have such long roots.

Long may it last.

So you definetly don't have my vote for the typical British summer - one of the reasons I don't live in Britain.

My friend and I used to look out for the small pools of melted tar in the gutter on the long dawdle home from primary school. We’d find small sticks and play with the lovely stuff! How easily pleased were we! I can smell that lovely smell now.

I am obviously odd as I love the long hot summer days, light evenings and mornings.

I detest the grey winter weather.

😂, the sort of ‘proper’ summers where you so often heard a hopeful, ‘I think it might be brightening up a bit…’.

@Anniebach, is that some sort of record - no rain in Wales? 😅
Here in East Anglia we were late to the party with warm weather but it has certainly made up for lost time in the last week with scorching, humid weather and we were one of the few places in the country not to experience the thunderstorms. We could do with a good storm now, preferably overnight, with sunshine by day but around six or seven degrees cooler. 20-23 degrees would be perfect.

Exactly Foxygloves. 🙄 Don’t worry, it won’t last and then the long, wet, dark, gloomy days will be upon us again, lasting for months and interminable! 😔

Like this?

I wish the summers could be like the old days a warm spring with some rain gradually building up to a good warm not scorching summer. The poor children are locked up in school in this weather, then the last few years the weather broke and they got a gloomy wet holiday.
Or am I imagining things?
I don't like the mad scramble from quilted coats one day to a t-shirt or shirt the next

Hailstones bigger than marbles here last Monday. Damaged conservatory roofs. Flooding. Cooled the air down though.
I do remember that it snowed on 1 June one year.
I don’t like heat, but sunshine and a breeze are always pleasant.

We had a very brief shower, three days ago. Other than that it has not rained here in SWWales since May 8th. It is even quite warm, early morning.

It’s not raining in Wales 😲

That sounds very romantic Grammaretto , here in the midlands its long cold spells, long dry spells, long hot spells... it all feels too long-y. The weather takes itself far too seriously nowadays though the recent thunderstorms were a nice variation on a theme!

No, no, no. I love the warm days. We don’t get that many.

I agree. Those lovely cool summers where your summer dresses hardly ever came out of the wardrobe.

Ha Ha! Yes as I cower indoor in my lovely cool sitting room, I long for some rain for the poor plants
I reckon this old stone house in Scotland was built by Italians who were used to cool courtyards and dark hallways.
It's freezing most of the year but now it is perfect.