So let’s have a thread for the summer lovers

I’m happier in summer mainly because of the light nights. I love them. It’s nearly 10pm and I’ve just finished watering the garden. Such a lovely atmosphere outside.

In Bristol this weekend visiting DS, we’re currently in the Holiday Inn, it’s great, sunny and blue skies, big comfy bed, AIR CON and a pool, I’m in 7th heaven!

Gran22boys

I’m happier in summer mainly because of the light nights. I love them. It’s nearly 10pm and I’ve just finished watering the garden. Such a lovely atmosphere outside.

Oh I have to agree, I just love the light evenings!

I too am a summer baby and love this weather although not the humidity so much.

Me too — I just love the summers where it is warm. I’m in Central Scotland however spend most of the school holidays in Essex looking after two of my grandchildren.
I once told my parents, in my teens, that I was born into the wrong family, as I longed to live in Italy at that time.
How rude of me in hindsight!
Nothing nicer than sitting in the garden until late at night! Sometimes with a fire/patio heater on and a blanket. My happy place.

I’d love summer more if it was warmer than it is normally here
(NE Scotland ). The beauty of holidays in warmer countries is that the evenings are still warm. We had great, and very unusual, weather on Tuesday - about 26deg -, and in the evening it was still warm, but it’s gone downhill since. I know that the current temperatures down south can make life uncomfortable, but I must admit, l’m still envious.

grannybuy' I'm envious of your 26C, that's about the upper limit I find comfortable. The current 36C daytime 24C overnight with humidity we're having is just unbearable. I love the length of daylight in summer, I hate the dark of winter and autumn. But when extreme temperatures are causing shops to have to bin food because the chillers are breaking down under the strain, patients are not receiving life saving treatments and scans because equipment is breaking down, the trains can't run because extreme temperatures cause buckling rails etc etc then I really don't think extreme temperatures are a cause for celebration.
Because people die of cold in the winter is no reason to dismiss those that will die as a result of these extreme temperatures as BlueBelle appears to do. And I don't know anywhere in the UK that endures 10/11 months of cold, chilly, grey gloomy weather. Even in the Artic circle they don't claim that!

CV2020 you could have stayed out all night last night here in Outer London and you wouldn't have needed a blanket or fire pit.
I was considering spreadeagling myself on the grass at 1.00 am. I had possibly 2 hours sleep last night and it's still hot now and will get hotter.
This isn't a lovely summer as I know it and normally love. I feel so sorry for anyone in a hospital ward, sitting in A&E, at home with a baby or small children, anyone getting up to go to work today and of course all us older ones in hot flats and houses and/or with caring responsibilities for youngsters or older folk.

Scotland always sounds lovely and especially at the moment. We will all be migrating northwards as this heat becomes more common.

I m not dismissing anything at all Rosie51 it’s called balance people die or are ill in any extremes and I m balancing it as everyone was quoted ‘heat deaths’.
And yes many years there are 10 / 11 months of greyish weather we often have ‘summers’ that are very disappointing with just a couple of good months of even just a few weeks to get excited about, by the way I didn’t say ‘enduring’

Anyway you see it your way I ll see it mine
Enjoy it while it lasts

I think there are probs some who have not been getting the worst of the high temps who are obviously enjoying temps in the mid to late twenties etc. yesterday the temps in London were on a par with Dubai and the capital of Iran. A postie told me that inside his van was measuring 47 degrees. Outside it was in excess of 35/36 degrees.
Nobody could go out in it unless they had to and I really feel sorry for those working in it.
If we get these temps again we will be trying to escape to other cooler parts of the UK where we will get an Airbnb until the heatwave subsides.
Believe me, and I love summer, this is extreme and not enjoyable.

Oh BlueBelle I was OK with yout last post until "Enjoy it while it lasts".

I don't think you are reading the room.

We will hopefully have a week of cool then it hots up again. So it is actually lasting. Whether we will Enjoy It is doubtful.

Well I’m not enjoying it while it lasts BlueBelle and can’t wait to see the back of it from tomorrow. How you can see temperatures in the mid to high 30s as enjoyable is beyond me. It’s ok when you’re on holiday in say Greece but the heat there is dry.
The current weather is causing misery to millions of people in this country and not just old biddies like us.

I like it, but not the current extreme heat - not unless I can be on a beach with nice shady trees, and a turquoise sea to fall into….

Phew! The Heat bubble seems to have passed for now ( here at least) so may I please join 'The Summer Lovers' until the next excruciating blast?
Feeling so excited to be able to go outside after 9.45 am, Yipee!

LaCrepescule there’s about four threads decrying this hot weather I started this thread for people who enjoy deep summer and not as a continuation of the other threads.
Not everyone loves summer or heat but some do so this thread is for the lovers not the haters 🤣

Helterskelter no I m not reading the ‘roll on cool weather’ room, you’re dead right 🤣

It was 34* in my neck of the woods yesterday, and yes the beach is beautiful right now Witzend anyway I m sure we ll be back to a normal British summer very, very soon.

keepcalmandcavachon Enjoy your respite from the intense heat. As not everyone is saying which part of the country they're in we could be comparing apples and oranges. grannybuy in NE Scotland enjoyed her day of 26C temperature as would I although that is about my preferred upper limit in this country with its high humidity.
When nighttime temperatures have not dropped below 21-23 for a couple of nights it is exhausting. The Urban Heat Island effect is real, those that live in cities do not get the cooling effect of sunset that those who live in villages, small towns or near the coast enjoy.

I've been thinking about the reality of how long winter actually is, my perception is it's longer than summer or seems like it. Bad winter months, December, January February, March. November and April can both be a bit iffy. If we're lucky not too bad, April hot even, that lockdown year 2020 it was. So if we have a good run, May, June, July, August, September, late September and October can be the best Autumn has to offer.

I agree * bluebelle* it is a thread for people who like the sun so why come on this thread to complain. The original poster is just asking others how much they are enjoying this hot weather. I'm in Central Scotland so we are not having such high temperatures. Just to add... I love sunny, dry no wind weather but temperatures around 22 degrees

For BlueBelle

But I am agreeing with you Bluebelle I like summer but in London and various other parts of the UK the high temps recently are not the kind of summer weather I and many others recognise or enjoy. The reason we recall the summer of 1976 is because it was rare, but now these extreme temps are becoming common each summer so we don’t bat an eye. But we should. Because it isn’t the kind of seasonal averages our country should be getting and I have no doubt that before too long another heat dome will assail us. That is when we will pack our bags and travel to the parts of the UK no doubt enjoying temps between 21 to 24 degrees. That will be enough summer for us.

polomint

I agree * bluebelle* it is a thread for people who like the sun so why come on this thread to complain. The original poster is just asking others how much they are enjoying this hot weather. I'm in Central Scotland so we are not having such high temperatures. Just to add... I love sunny, dry no wind weather but temperatures around 22 degrees

I think you'll find lots of us have said we love summer but not the dangerously high temperatures parts of the country are experiencing. As someone in Central Scotland you haven't had to endure night time temperatures of 20-23 (your preferred daytime temperature) so forgive those of us that are saying these aren't bliss. As someone pointed out upthread you can love chocolate but that doesn't mean you have to love being forced to eat two kilos of the stuff every day. Aren't we allowed to say we too love summer, as long as its the the type that doesn't cause shop chillers and freezers to break, or hospital scanners and equipment to malfunction, trains not to be able to run etc?
Threads that are designed to be echo chambers where only those in full agreement should post would eventually even bore their own posters..