What the hell is going on with the weather?

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Fanny Haddock

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What the hell is going on with the weather? I've really had enough of this. Is Summer over already?

And is it affecting the speed of the forum? Seems awfully slow to load with loads of time out error messages.
 
We have been spoiled. The last two summers were so good we have come to expect. We were supposed to be cruising the south coast but got as far as Ramsgate and gave up. To be fair we had some family commitments which also impacted. Trying again in August.
 
In 2019 at the start of my holiday we had strong westerly winds (F6) and halfway through the holiday it blew an easterly gale for a few days. The rest was not much wind. One extreme to another. Hopefully it will settle down.
 
I can remember watching the seas breaking over the harbour wall in Mevagissey in the ‘40s and ‘50s. There was also 1956, the summer when the sun never shone. Apart from the amazing summers of ‘75 and ‘76 and a couple in the early ‘80s, summer in Britain has been uniformly miserable. We have had a little fine weather, but with two and a half months to go, we may as well wait and see rather than annoy ourselves with grousing. In the last twenty years we have spent roughly alternative years in the Channel. Much of the time has been spent huddled in the saloon with the heater on full blast to warm us up and dry out, often spending days or longer waiting for the weather the break and give us a chance to sail. We might yet get some settled weather. My runner beans need it even if I don’t.
 
seivadnehpets said:
I was working as a motorcycle courier in 2012 when the olimpics came to London, I remember that summer well; I got wet every day until the sun came out for the games.
Then I realised that if I put a non breathable raincoat over my"breathable" motorcycle jacket I would stay dry!
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I worked as a London motorcycle despatch rider in the late 1970s. Those were the days when men were men, and motorcyclists didn't expect to stay dry! ;)
 
Might help on tv if the weather forcasts with maps show the jet Stream over the GB/UK as i understand that it has a greater influence than many of us understand, might mean us genning up on the Jet Stream thought to understand it, but it then might help us understand why the weather does not allways do as thought or predicted by the Weather Forcasters

I have noticed that the ITV weather forcast sometimes appear to show the Jet Stream over the GB/U K but never the BBC

Guess that we really appreciate our variable weather in this country really, it affords us unpredictability plus change, plus plus the very best growing seasons for Fruit, Veg, Flowers etc etc
 
Selective memory means that many of us still tend to think of long hot summers as being normal, when they aren't. The first one I remember was 1959, when as luck would have it I spent five weeks of it on the Continent, where it often rained. '75 and '76 were record-breaking and actually quite stressful. In '75 I spent a weekend in Germany where air-conditioning was normal in shops but almost unknown in poverty-striken Britain. On my time off I used to go to Brent Cross shopping centre just to get comfortable for an hour or two. Normal changeable rubbish is really the best for us.
 
johnalison said:
Selective memory means that many of us still tend to think of long hot summers as being normal, when they aren't. The first one I remember was 1959, when as luck would have it I spent five weeks of it on the Continent, where it often rained. '75 and '76 were record-breaking and actually quite stressful. In '75 I spent a weekend in Germany where air-conditioning was normal in shops but almost unknown in poverty-striken Britain. On my time off I used to go to Brent Cross shopping centre just to get comfortable for an hour or two. Normal changeable rubbish is really the best for us.
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Interesting memories. I was also abroad in 1959, but in North Germany for 3/12, they had no rain at all for many months, the drought was so severe that many hundreds of cattle had to be slaughtered due to failure of their water supply. It was amazingly hot, but very very low humidity so actually quite comfortable.
In 75 and 76 we were in Newmarket, one year, can’t remember which, it snowed on about 6th June, and then the temperature shot up and we had no rain until October!
 
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