Is this the worst (britishes) summer ever?

sheeeeeit, my folks are going to that part of oxfordshire today!

i think it's the worst summer ever, yep.

We had a vaguely satisfying group rant about it on the 'another hot summer' thread yesterday. But yeah, it's the worst I can remember.

I can't recall a worse one. Still plenty of time for it to piss down in August, too, yet.

i like it. it's still warm yet not so sunny that i get burnt quickly. also, storms are cool.

TRUCK fest is off.

http://www.nme.com/news//29821

(and the fourth wettest ever)
as in since 1908 or what?

that unusual April heatwave seems a long time ago. last Summer was mega-hot but i read somewhere it was only the hottest since 1998 or something - it will probably end up being the hottest this decade tho.

gloriously random

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42463000/gif/_42463752_rainfall3_416x251.gif

wow august 2004 was some shit huh?

I remember August 2004 sucking enormously.

possibly the best month of my life.

I can't remember anything at all about August 2004.

Oh, that's because I was watching Olympics a lot. Don't remember particularly crappy weather?

i moved house, don't remember it being partic hot. whereas august 2003 was the hottest i can remember it being, ever. anyhoo: YES britishes summer weather be random, but this summer has been unusually consistent in its shittiness.

as in since 1908 or what?

Since 1914, apparently. Obviously this isn't as bad as the ice age.

At least you're not having the ZITTIEST summer ever.

I think the Britishes might have had other things on their minds in 1914.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curragh_Incident

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Alliance_(1914)

I was visiting a friend in London in June and they shut down the Circle line for an entire weekend. Friend seemed to think it was to repair heat damage. Melting tracks?? Really?

Top five wettest years in England in my life : 2000, 2002, 1998, 1999, 1974. The first six months of this year put it on target to come top.

Top five hottest years in England in my life: 2006, 1990, 2002, 1999, 2003. The first six months of this year also put it on target to come top.

Seems like it's getting hotter and wetter. This is the worst combination. No barbecues, no fun, just humidity. I'd happily take a bit of a cold summer if it was sunny all the time.

i wish people would stop saying britishes

/\ typical british reaction

It took me 11 hours to get from Wiltshire to Leicestershire yesterday (taking in a stop for some quite decent chinese food in Swanage) so it could have been worse. Also I saw the man from Bargain Hunt in the chinese restaurant so all was not lost.

That should be Wantage.

Not Swanage.

this has definitely made moving to chicago much, much easier. and then some.

It's all the fucking pagans fault.

spoke to parents in Tewkesbury today. worst they can remember it (no doubt not helped because they built an asda and several housing estates on the flood plain, duh!). brother slept in car on friday night because he couldn't get home from work.

basement flat here (W12) got flooded out as well, high water mark is 1/4 of the way up the back door. similar scenes all up the street, at least those houses with basement flats.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44014000/jpg/_44014086_glo_sun_aerial.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44014000/jpg/_44014078_worcs_sun_caravansfloat.jpg

I;m really hoping the witch downstairs is going to get flooded out, but SE24 remains dry.

I am leaving for two weeks walking and camping in pembrokeshire on friday. Wish me luck.

friday = wednesday

i have sung in that abbey 8) big centre page spread in todays guardian taken from the other side. (airspace above tewkesbury must be full of helicopters what with photographers and rescue choppers)

and why are so many caravans caught up in the flood? they are on wheels.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6806361,00.html

The three months from May to July have been the wettest on record even before July is over, the Met Office has revealed.

Figures show that 387.6mm of rain have already fallen across England and Wales, making it the wettest May to July since records began in 1766.

...and still it rains... :-(

This flooding is God's punishment on Britain for having too many caravans. It's true! He told me so.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=4583

so is this the end of the rain

(actually looking further north of britain the rain makes a comeback this weekend so "no")

So....

2007: unusually hot April, followed by three months of torrential rain and huge floods

2011: the hottest April ever (probably - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/24/april-warmest-britain-sun), followed by...?

The last couple of weeks have been absolutely fantastic and I've loved it. I just thought I should put that on record because I've been moaning about crap English summers for the last four years.

I'm considering buying a dehumidifier on Wednesday, so it'll probably be a complete washout from here until September.

Yeah, past 3-4 years have been blazing in April or May, then rained through the summer. Almost ready to think it is our new ~climate pattern~ but I'm sure that's a little premature as yet.

(I am a wimp and don't like anything above about 28 degrees, so if we do get a hotter summer than this I am going to be grumpy as hell all over ILX)

i've been thinking along the lines of yr first sentence meself

yr second sentence can do one tho

Britain's new climate pattern = "we don't know what the weather's going to be like from one week to the next" = Britain's old climate pattern

It's been very wet recently. Just saying.

it was the best april ever, though. and may was very good. im quietly confident.

I don't mind the rain. The post-rain humidity is pretty obnoxious, though.

It's a bit better today. I think people exaggerate the shitness of summers anyway. everyone seems to say that we get a great april and may and always a bad summer now but it's not really true. there was a heatwave for about 3 weeks in June last year, hottest Wimbledon ever etc. I don't remember any shortage of hot days last year.

It's been pretty warm despite the heavy showers.

I'm OK with this tbh. But that's cos I am with spacecadet:

(I am a wimp and don't like anything above about 28 degrees, so if we do get a hotter summer than this I am going to be grumpy as hell all over ILX)

Manchester has been disgusting. Dunno how much worse than the rest of the country it is but fuck this town

hankering for that
jerk chicken place opposite only does it on weekends >:(

Dirty rice is basically my version of jollof but with fewer ingredients to colour the rice.

Had to kill the rest of the pint of vanilla Haagen-Dazs and some raspberries, blender came out again.

Day turned to night...

Who could have predicted thunderstorms in incredibly hot weather?

Everyone was/is frantically trying to get stuff harvested today before the inevitable deluge hit(s), hopefully successfully. Here it is still gorgeous, sweaty and sticky, although I found myself sitting under the sole wispy raincloud in a blue sky earlier. Refreshing but annoying.

im hoping to god it's nice in two weeks time as im back visiting and my wife has literally never seen Glasgow in the sunshine despite having been there 4 times

Who could have predicted thunderstorms in incredibly hot weather?

And the golf ball sized hailstones?

Also a thing

Hoping to avoid those on my way home tonight.

Annoying week to have chosen for a staycation, but its the overcast gloom I hate more than the rain.

I've got to go out in that shortly.

I have friends arriving from Australia tomorrow. They'll be pleased.

gone from one of the best to one of the worst, lately

supposed to be bbqing tonight

Wtf with this rain all day

i blame people who moan when it's warm

rainy & 18c in Paris today, outside lights already on at 2pm

but it'll be 30 again by Monday, RIP Britain

This is shit

BBQ totally happened and was a success last night, cooked under a tarpaulin and it was DELICIOUS

is tarpaulin a vegetable y/n

of course not, it wouldn't have a place near my bbq if it was

cooked tarpaulin: delicious

tarpaulin: not a vegetable

noted

Seems to be a lingering gloomy overcastness in London at the moment. A bit of sunshine wouldn't hurt.

Let's not get greedy, at least it's not relentlessly pishing it down - that's scheduled for tomorrow.

This summer has been strange. The early part was much drier, warmer, and sunnier than recent years. There was hardly any rain for months. All the streams and brooks out in the country were completely dried up. Now, it's gone the other way and the last six weeks, or something like that, have been predominantly cloudy with constant outbreaks of rain, not necessarily heavy most of the time but enough to spoil things.

it's my fault, I went to cornwall on holiday and that's when it all went shit.

You know, it's been fine in Fife the past couple of days - even nice today. Unfortunately it's the start of the Lammas market today, which means lots of people/noise, which isn't my thing.

oh take a day off, rain

i mean, i know August is usually shit and then it gets nice again, but September is going to have to be flipping TREMENDOUS to make up for this. i'm actually starting to panic that this is it until next April

The Bank Holiday weekend is going to be hot. It is meant to be 27 degrees on Monday.

lol, that has been revised down to 19 degrees since i checked this morning.

I sometimes wonder if we need a 'Is this the worst Scottishes Summer ever' thread. When it's raining here you guys are sunny. It's quite nice today - I sat outside and read for a while - but you guys are getting soggy.

Thank fuck its great this weekend.

rain is good not bad

george benson no less once explained this to me wrt the lovely greenness of england = one of its few positive features

Rain in Autumn plz.

george benson no less once explained this to me wrt the lovely greenness of england = one of its few positive features

I have often explained to my colleagues from Europe that this is why Great Britain and Ireland is so green - I can now use George Benson to bolster my argument.

it is autumn

but rain is summer is also good

as g.benson teaches us

I can remember a bad NME article on footballers and music that trash-talked George Benson. It summarised that professional footballers with perms and a penchant for George Benson = bad. And people like Pat Nevin with a well documented love of white indie rock = good and progressive. It would probably look very very bad now. To keep it topical, it is quite warm and balmy up here today. Might cut the hedges.

Sat in my gardeb drinking vodka and reading Moomin comics. That's a good day by my standards. Clouding over now.

(garden, obv)

Is this the best (britishes) summer ever?

feared this might be the mithering Indonesia shut-in freak. but yes - we shall enjoy these years, before the Great Die-Off

*mothering of some shut-in freak, bloody autocorrect

MITHERING

I'm sitting in the sun reading a book anyhow :)

Could do with a little rain every now and then if it's anything like this side of the Irish sea. Authorities are talking about drought.
BUt nice and sunny. Just could do with a little interspersing water refreshment innit.

Oh I'm expecting drought warnings any time soon.

we had some rain in london the other night and it just made it hot AND sticky, rather than just hot.

Of course I'm missing all the good weather through working and then sitting indoors all day watching football when I'm not working.