When is it going to stop... Raining

[Accy cyclist]

If I heated my house to 25.5 C then I would be as damp from sweating as if I had fallen off a boat into a bay!

My sister used to heat her place to 23 C in the winter and that was bad enough. I would have to wear lightweight shorts and t-shirt to put up with that! I never understand why people heat rooms to temperatures higher than they would get to in a warm summer.

25 Celsius/77 Fahrenheit to me would mean me wearing one, maybe two fleecy tops, but I could get away with shorts and still feel comfy.

 

[Alex321]

25 Celsius/77 Fahrenheit to me would mean me wearing one, maybe two fleecy tops, but I could get away with shorts and still feel comfy.

Whereas for me, in the house, that is warm enough to be in thin T-shirt with windows open to give a bit of draft. My wife feels cold more than I do, but even she wouldn't feel cold enough to be wearing fleecy tops in that temperature.

We all have differing tolerances/comfort zones for both low and high temperatures.

 

[Mike_P]

I too am farking fed up of this. 8 days out of the next 10 are expected to rain. It's JUNE!

Not that unusual, I remember freezing in unheated sports halls doing exams in the first half of June and the alleged longest day of the year, 21st, is often pitch black and thunderstorms.

 

[Time Waster]

Sounds like the words of a southerner.
When you get the stuff falling from the sky constantly for 8 months of the year, then regularly for the other 4 months, then yes; it IS a problem!!!
Cannot get a dry spell to paint the outside of my flat. Cycling is shite. Motorbiking also shite. Roofers cannot get repairs done so finding one to do work is almost impossible. I work as a maintenance person with grounds to look after, another impossible task. Weeds grow like wildfire, and again getting anything painted - when are you supposed to do it?
I could go on, but with my sunny, positive outlook, I wouldn't want to give the wrong impression .

To you I am a southerner but I'm north of Dunsop Bridge so in UK terms still a northerner.

I reckon I'd put my garden's weeds against yours. We absolutely cleared our gravel paths of weeds and within a week we were back to before we weeded! We weed the garden in a permanent infinity loop. If there's ever a few weeks of solid, heavy downpours in between the normal rains then it's jungle time with the Strummer just to find the paths again!

We've given up on the top garden. Let nature have that weed infested mess! I do believe a part of it has triffids growing. I certainly have to battle it to get out of the top gate!

Those triffids are like layers of leaves growing up bigger and bigger with more and more rings of leaves! Never seen anything like them before. be has a central stem so thick and strong I think I'll need geared loppers to get through it. Roots I think go down to nearly the mantle I reckon,,

 

[Alex321]

Not that unusual, I remember freezing in unheated sports halls doing exams in the first half of June and the alleged longest day of the year, 21st, is often pitch black and thunderstorms.

I will never forget seeing snow on June 3rd in 1975. I am that sure of the date because I was in the school assembly hall doing my English Language GCE and glanced out of the window to see snow falling (it didn't settle), so was definitely 1975, and June 3rd was my mothers birthday. This was in Grantham.

But against that, as Morris dancers, our side normally tries to dance on the highest point of the Gower at sunset on the solstice, and we have only been stopped by rain once in the last 8 years. Though the forecast is currently showing an 80% chance of rain for that day this year.

 

[classic33]

Not that unusual, I remember freezing in unheated sports halls doing exams in the first half of June and the alleged longest day of the year, 21st, is often pitch black and thunderstorms.

June 1975 anyone?

 

[Alex321]

June 1975 anyone?
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I mentioned that in the post immediately before yours

 

[Brandane]

That's the thing, I guarantee wherever you go in the world with temperatures above 20 degrees, you will find a Scotsman sheltering in the shade with a cold beer complaining about the heat.

Aye; fahrenheit!

 

[Slick]

Aye; fahrenheit!

Exactly.

I think it was last year being on a site complaining to a guy about the heat and when we jumped in the car it was 12 degrees. I was expecting Nicola to declare a national emergency.

 

[Ripple]

It annoys me seeing forecasts for the next week - all sun, clear skies, above 20'C ...
Comes the next week and we have rain, clouds, wind and 15 - 16'C. Nice weather mentioned above will be ... next week.
It's been like that since some time in April.

 

[Jenkins]

It's not just the rain - have a look at the temperature (bottom left of the display) at the end of my ride this afternoon when I got caught in unforecast rain.

 

[Alex321]

It has actually been dry here for most of the last week or so, but windy and cold, and the forecast is for rain tomorrow and every day until Tuesday at least.

 

[ColinJ]

Typical... For weeks now, every time that I have ridden my bike there has been a gusty wind blowing. I got back from a windy ride on Wednesday afternoon and did a lot of washing. I hung it out on the line to dry and about 30 seconds later the wind abated!! The washing has been hanging for hours and has barely dried at all.

 

[ColinJ]

The washing has been hanging for hours and has barely dried at all.

I trusted the forecast - no rain overnight, with freshening breeze, and sunny spells to start the day. I left the washing out and it was dry by 10:30 today.

The forecast then indicated dry until 14:00 so I nipped out for a quick ride. When I got back rain was threatening but not yet falling so I went back out on the bike to Lidl for supplies. A few spots fell on me as I rode home but the rain didn't really start until 10 minutes after I got home again.

13th June, but only 15.8 degrees in the house so full winter clothing on...

 

[Brandane]

It annoys me seeing forecasts for the next week - all sun, clear skies, above 20'C ...
Comes the next week and we have rain, clouds, wind and 15 - 16'C. Nice weather mentioned above will be ... next week.
It's been like that since some time in April.

This bugs me too. I recall years ago the BBC stating openly that they were going to give us more "feel-good" weather forecasts. For example, rather than showers, they would say dry spells. Rather than cold they would say "cooler temperatures". A fresh breeze rather than windy. Sorry, but for those of us who want to know if we are going to get wet and cold if we venture out on a bike, or walking, playing golf, motorcycling or whatever weather dependent activity we might want to take part in: I would rather know the truth rather than some nonsense to make people who sit in their house/car/office all day feel good!

As for today; what can I say. Chucking it down, cold, windy. And forecast for the next 4 days is yet more of the same. And reading the (non feel good) forecast for the weeks to come doesn't fill me with joy. It seems to me that the weather gets worse year on year. Climate change for us in the NW of the UK means wet and windy. Seasons mean very little.