Is this year another one-off..

[yenrod]

OR is it gonna be like this for the foreseeable future

RE: The Rain/Weather

 

[wafflycat]

I confidently predict the UK will be rained upon again.

 

[Keith Oates]

Every year is different, except for the wind and rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ashtrayhead]

It's just like any other summer.....except for '76 perhaps....

 

[Dayvo]

. . . the wrist?

Yeah, real fiddle summer! It's absolutely lashing it down now as I'm having my cuppa before I head off to work in 20 mins.

Oh well, at least it's green everywhere!

 

[barq]

It really isn't a good summer. What highlights it for me is that I share an office with one of those people who says "isn't it a loverly day" even when it quite clearly is not. I'm all for positivity, but this is plain delusional.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Yesterday was one of those rare days when it rained, heavily mind, from around 7:00 am and it was still going at 2:00 am this morning. The sun is shining intermittently now though. I suspect that SW Germany now weighs a lot more than it did two days ago and that there is a shortage of cats and dogs in the area.

 

[Lardyboy]

Summer? Summer? Looks like the prediction of two season years were right.

 

[spandex]

Is this year another one-off!

Well given that it keeps on happening I'm going to say that it is now the norm for the UK.

 

[ChrisKH]

Every year we have an eight day hols in Dorset, by the Seaside. Same place we go to. Diferent week, though, ranging from late June to late August. This was our sixth year in a row. And it only ever rains one day of the week where we go in the Summer.

Then I think you're lucky. I had last week off and it rained off and on every day. I'm usually a very positive person but apart from two/three weeks in late May/early June when I was abroad anyway the weather has been shite. This year has been a bummer. I only want a bit of sun at the weekends and a nice breeze - I have also been monitoring the wind (as a nice tailwind home makes 40 miles tolerable) and it has been variably windy, well, forever. The only time I noticed there was no wind recently was during the downpour on Monday. Here's to an Indian summer. Please.

 

[gbb]

Every year we have an eight day hols in Dorset, by the Seaside. Same place we go to. Diferent week, though, ranging from late June to late August. This was our sixth year in a row. And it only ever rains one day of the week where we go in the Summer.

Like you crock..we holidayed in Weymouth for maybe 8 of the last 11 years (although havnt been for 3 years now)...always in the 1st or 2nd week in August...and have always been blessed with good weather.

I seem to remember watching a report on TV late last year....they predicted a poor or cool summer for the UK. They were spot on

 

[Arch]

It does seem to have been a miserable couple of summers, but two years in a row don't necessarily mean too much, I guess.

The rain I can cope with, but it seems to have been actually COLD sometimes, which seems wrong for August.

Certainly seems quite waterlogged around here and the river is up, although not actually over the top last time I saw it..

 

[Graham O]

While yesterday's morning commute was a wet one, it was only the second time I've got wet in the last 3 months of 4 days a week of commuting. But I'm not bothered if the perception is that it always rains. The order book at work is booming, (waterproof clothing manufacturer). Long may it rain.