I can't recall a worse one. Still plenty of time for it to piss down in August, too, yet.
― Matt, Saturday, 21 July 2007 11:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
i like it. it's still warm yet not so sunny that i get burnt quickly. also, storms are cool.
― creme1, Saturday, 21 July 2007 11:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
TRUCK fest is off.
http://www.nme.com/news//29821
― pisces, Saturday, 21 July 2007 12:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
(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.
― blueski, Saturday, 21 July 2007 13:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
gloriously random
― blueski, Saturday, 21 July 2007 14:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
wow august 2004 was some shit huh?
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 21 July 2007 14:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
I remember August 2004 sucking enormously.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 21 July 2007 15:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
possibly the best month of my life.
― acrobat, Saturday, 21 July 2007 15:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
I can't remember anything at all about August 2004.
― ailsa, Saturday, 21 July 2007 15:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
Oh, that's because I was watching Olympics a lot. Don't remember particularly crappy weather?
― ailsa, Saturday, 21 July 2007 15:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
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.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 21 July 2007 15:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
as in since 1908 or what?
Since 1914, apparently. Obviously this isn't as bad as the ice age.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Saturday, 21 July 2007 15:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
At least you're not having the ZITTIEST summer ever.
― Jesse, Saturday, 21 July 2007 16:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
I think the Britishes might have had other things on their minds in 1914.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 21 July 2007 16:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curragh_Incident
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 21 July 2007 16:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Alliance_(1914)
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 21 July 2007 16:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
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?
― the higgs, Saturday, 21 July 2007 16:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Saturday, 21 July 2007 16:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
i wish people would stop saying britishes
― blueski, Saturday, 21 July 2007 17:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
/\ typical british reaction
― blueski, Saturday, 21 July 2007 17:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 21 July 2007 17:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
That should be Wantage.
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 21 July 2007 17:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
Not Swanage.
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 21 July 2007 17:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
this has definitely made moving to chicago much, much easier. and then some.
― toby, Sunday, 22 July 2007 03:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
It's all the fucking pagans fault.
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 22 July 2007 19:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
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.
― koogs, Sunday, 22 July 2007 20:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 23 July 2007 10:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
I;m really hoping the witch downstairs is going to get flooded out, but SE24 remains dry.
― Pete W, Monday, 23 July 2007 10:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
I am leaving for two weeks walking and camping in pembrokeshire on friday. Wish me luck.
― Ed, Monday, 23 July 2007 10:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
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.
― koogs, Monday, 23 July 2007 11:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
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... :-(
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Thursday, 26 July 2007 07:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
This flooding is God's punishment on Britain for having too many caravans. It's true! He told me so.
― byebyepride, Thursday, 26 July 2007 08:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=4583
so is this the end of the rain
― Ste, Monday, 30 July 2007 10:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
(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.
― in a wonderful balloon! (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 24 April 2011 19:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm considering buying a dehumidifier on Wednesday, so it'll probably be a complete washout from here until September.
― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Sunday, 24 April 2011 19:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
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)
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 24 April 2011 20:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
i've been thinking along the lines of yr first sentence meself
yr second sentence can do one tho
― i've got blingees on my fisters (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 April 2011 23:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Monday, 25 April 2011 08:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's been very wet recently. Just saying.
― Food Processors Are Grebt (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 18 June 2011 07:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
it was the best april ever, though. and may was very good. im quietly confident.
― underrated mountain goats bootlegs I have owned (history mayne), Saturday, 18 June 2011 07:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't mind the rain. The post-rain humidity is pretty obnoxious, though.
― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Saturday, 18 June 2011 07:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's been pretty warm despite the heavy showers.
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm OK with this tbh. But that's cos I am with spacecadet:
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Manchester has been disgusting. Dunno how much worse than the rest of the country it is but fuck this town
― forest zombie (Vasco da Gama), Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
try living in fucking scotland
― rolling stupid fruity crazy vag cru (cozen), Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't think I'll be doing that, no.
I have cycled more miles in the rain in June than in the rest of the year put together. Haven't actually minded it that much but I would rather like it to stay blissfully sunny for the next week or so. A wet Glastonbury is an overrated thing.
― Upt0eleven, Saturday, 18 June 2011 11:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
21-23 degrees, chance of a shower, sunny spells = perfect summer.
― resonate with awesomeness (jel --), Saturday, 18 June 2011 11:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
There was that one summer recently that it got so hot that train tracks melted and warped? When was that, 2003?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5193486.stm
― second dullest ILXor since 1929 (snoball), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yup, that was the one.
Blood-flavoured ice lollies. Mmmmm. Keeping Britain's vampires cool since 2006.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
It basically never goes above 35 (I remember this happening once in my lifetime and it made the news). We might get a couple of days around 30-32 in a "hot" year. PS 30 is way too hot for me so I'm not complaining about that.
In general some workplaces have A/C but I don't know anyone with A/C at home.
― put a fillyjonk on it (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
PS 30 is way too hot for me
It's the humidity that really makes it miserable though. Seems to be higher on average in the UK compared to the US.
I don't know anyone with A/C at home.
My parents have a small-ish portable AC on wheels, but it doesn't get used that much, even during a hot year.
― second dullest ILXor since 1929 (snoball), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
I bet the rest of the world is really looking forward to coming to this soggy shithole of an island next month.
Just got caught in the heaviest downpour I have ever seen. Thank fuck I had an umbrella.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
You have enough 35+ days, and even a soggy shithole of an island looks appealing. Hell, I'd be in Seattle if it wasn't for my irrational fear of Mt. Rainer exploding.
― Theodora Celery, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
The eyes of the world have already seen the morose jubilee floatilla in the endless grey pissing rain, soggy Wimbledon in the same, and next The Olympics (if we haven't been completely submerged by then). Instead of showcasing the city to future tourists, we'll be sending out the message that London is a miserable place where it always rains. Only freaks will come to visit us.
― Özil Gummidge (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
Sounds like a winner. Tourists? We don't need their scum.
― ledge, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
― second dullest ILXor since 1929 (snoball), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
Not a bad likeness tbh.
― ledge, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
Just roof the fucking place already Boris
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
You mean put the whole of London under a William Gibson style geodesic dome?
― second dullest ILXor since 1929 (snoball), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
I'm up for that. Like The Truman Show, but without the cameras.
― Özil Gummidge (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
get norman foster to design it
in yr face astana
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
Or everyone else secretly being an actor.
Don't like that idea. They'd only really roof Central London and the outer boroughs would end up getting drowned in the runoff.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
Sounds like a winner. Outer boroughs? We don't need their scum.
― ledge, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
No dome anywhere the riots happened. Rioters don't deserve domes!
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
make the drainpipe empty out on to the london "pleasure" "gardens", may as well put it to some use
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
ha... then you, my friend, can appreciate what it was like to be in a vest and shorts, out running, during said downpour. i have never been so soaked in my life. joggers were sharing mutual wry laughter as they passed. if i get away without a cold or chest infection it'll be a miracle.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
Sounds like a winner. Joggers? We don't need their scum.
― ledge, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
i lived in a house with air conditioning
you'd probably get 10-20 days a year when it might be useful
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
probably about 2 days so far this year
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
that was when i was a kid so i don't think air conditioning was a big priority
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
Something dreadful's happened - the sky's gone a terrifyingly blank and gaudy shade of blue, of all colours.
― If you live in Thanet and fancy doing some creative knitting (Fizzles), Thursday, 12 July 2012 06:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
THERE'S A FUCKING BURNING ORB OF FIRE IN THE SKY! WTF IS THAT! IT MUST BE THE TENTH PLANET THAT THE MAYANS AND NIC CAGE PREDICTED WOULD WIPE OUT CIVILIZATION! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!
― second dullest ILXor since 1929 (snoball), Thursday, 12 July 2012 06:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yellow burny sky-ball! Sighted in air above Croydon! It burns, it burns, my flesh, it burns!
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 12 July 2012 07:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
Going into vitamin D shock... must find darkened room...
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Thursday, 12 July 2012 08:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
haha the weather wuss on 5 Live this morning going all Gerard Manley Hopkins about "burning orb of July sunshine illuminating our crops and souls" etc. and then creeping in afterwards to add "btw, by teatime it's going to be pissing down again."
I've never known such accusatory weather in any other country. Even the rain here falls in a manner that suggests: "It's all your fault."
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
Actually I should modify that by saying "in any other place." It really is an urban thing and probably a London thing.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
So, the age-old dilemma raises its head: beach or barbecue?
― Özil Gummidge (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 14 July 2012 09:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
Drinking even more than I would be if it was sunny.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Saturday, 14 July 2012 09:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
sun was out earlier when i awoke. after reading tons of ilx in bed, the sun has now fucked off. only myself to blame.
― PSOD (Ste), Saturday, 14 July 2012 09:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
i take so much care to avoid situations where i end up having to exist outside in the rain - blanket no-UK-festivals policy for instance - and yet it appears that tonight i have to go to somerset house for an afrobeats gig
it will be outdoors
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>:(
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Saturday, 14 July 2012 09:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
Been working some saturdays this summer which makes weather seem ok
― cestu, Saturday, 14 July 2012 10:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
Apparently the end is nigh:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18868494
― Özil Gummidge (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
no rain on the 10 day forecast after today
― nakhchivan, Friday, 20 July 2012 09:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
typically i'm going on holidays in 8 days. it'll prob rain there.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 July 2012 09:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Özil Gummidge (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 20 July 2012 10:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Özil Gummidge (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 20 July 2012 10:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 July 2012 10:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
Just as I was reaching the point where I had just about forgotten summer and had finally accepted this eternal cold grey twilight world.
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Friday, 20 July 2012 10:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
Still a big fucking raincloud outside my window.
The only silver lining I'd seen around the eternal British cloud was that the Olympics was gonna get rained on. Now I don't even have that small comfort!
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Friday, 20 July 2012 11:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
Not even going to go outside today.
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Friday, 20 July 2012 12:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
LOL massive downpour in SE London all of a sudden. It's mid afternoon and it's so dark in my living room (it's south facing! and usually really bright!) I'm tempted to turn the light on. A+ work, weather
― salsa shark, Friday, 20 July 2012 15:25 (11 months ago) Permalink