[Closed] The current "Summer was that it?" poll!

Are you talking about this years summer? I can hardly remember it. This years winter hasn't been too bad though.

Yeah - this summer. The one you get if you walk out of the office right now. Think it is somewhere between 23 and 27 degrees with some light cloud cover, grass dying from not being watered! Trails are pretty dry too!

Err - Shortcut - do you live in London/home counties?

Go outside? I'll have to dig out my overshoes, hold on.

Been pretty awful here (Cornwall) since early July. For the fourth year in a row.

Dammit.

do you live in the south east?

There are other areas of the country than London and it suburbs? 🙄

Yep, can confirm...Cornwall has had sh!tty weather for a couple of weeks now. Warm enough but wet and windy.

Full on gipping for the last week and a half in the north east. Dry trails are a distant memory! Overcast, monsoon style rain 3 times a day, occasional sun, muggy and often extremely windy. Not exactly what I thought July weather would bring.

April/May/June however were pretty nice.

As many have said and implied the OP would appear to be in the home counties (or south at any rate) and has forgetten that the rest of the country exists. 😐

EDIT: or is a gloating troll.

foxy, tread carefully. You'll burst some seriously big bubble telling them that!

its been a bit crappy in Dumfries and Galloway for the last 3-4 weeks too. Lots of rain, not much sun but fairly warm.

Been lovely on the south coast imo.

I've never been out on the bike so much. I even went out especially because it rained a little the other day as I missed a bit of mud.

I even had to call the fire brigade to put out a forest fire....!

Nice and dry here..

I can't wait for summer. Bring on the 40c!!! It's ****ing freezing here atm. Down to 3 or 4 at night and only nudging 20c in the daytime. Brr!!!

Mind, we still have a sprinkler ban on and it's winter.

Love from Australia. 😉

I'm just looking up plans for build-your-own ark kits. It's hammering it down. It's rained everyday for about the past month. And guess whos got a hosepipe ban..

United Utilities put a hosepipe ban into place for the the North West on the 2nd July.

Its pissed down every day since here.

Dorset is still enjoying the beautiful weather that befits a beautiful county. Gorgeous outside my office in Bournemouth and has been all day, and yesterday, the day before that, all of last week etc etc etc

Bring on the 40c!!! It's ****ing freezing here atm.

Looks like we've got your 40ºC, when do you want it back? Nice and breezy 30ºC at 1,100m, see if I can get for a ride later. 😆

United Utilities put a hosepipe ban into place for the the North West on the 2nd July.

Its pissed down every day since here.

Yup. Still, at least we don't have to live down south where the only thing we've got to crow about is the weather eh?

Some people do moan a lot.

Some people have no idea what is going on outside their own blinkered little bubble..

I concur with Shortcut.

In fact, I'm hoping the forcast rain for Thu/Fri really does happen becasue the trails round here will be better for it. Right now there's 2-3in of powder dust in places and it needs damping down and firming up for Saturday's ride. 8)

22 deg sunny and muggy as hell here in Moray. hammered down yesterday and a couple of other days but that's been it since Apr really. I shall go and see if the trails are still dry later. I suspect they will be.

I'm hoping the recent weather hasn't wrecked the trails which were tiptop a couple weeks ago. I was going to go riding tonight to check but as there's [url= http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/today.asp?zipcode=bl3 ]a metric shedload of rain forecast[/url] I may not. Don't mind a bit of wet but monsoon is not my style.

Good weather is coming back soon for most of Southern Britain, according to the long range. Scotland is SOL though.

Still raining in Manchester. Rather lighter than the stair rods that were coming down earlier.

I'm pleased the most (self)important part of the country is enjoying itself. Because by christ we'd know about it if you weren't...

🙄

Don't mind a bit of wet but monsoon is not my style.

Take your asda bag, you;ll be reet 😆

loving it.

tan coming along nicely, trails that were dusty have been damped by more than one light shower (overnight)

still the schools break this week so six weeks of rain is due.

apologies to my norvern friends, you are welcome to visit the flatlands* whenever you want tho

*traffic, traffic, traffic & £3.50/pint.

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been like this for the last hour and now settled down to a stead rain oop in West Yorkshire

Been lucky on the road back and front with shoddy weather in the place I leave till now.

Its ok, bit of rain but not brillaint, heard it was better than last year when it rained but I was in mainland Europe where it was cooking.

At least we don't have dangerous spiders or large cases of malaria or horrid droughts.

Be thankful we have a mix but I do hate winter!

It's been very cold this winter, but now here in the South, it's been warm and sunny (mostly) for weeks now. Had a football game last night in the park, nearly choked on the dust. Could do with a little bit of rain (late at night) to dampen things down a bit really. Not during the day though. Too many healthy young things out and about being healthy.

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I'm pleased the most (self)important part of the country is enjoying itself. Because by christ we'd know about it if you weren't...

Moaning about a lack of moaning...Northerners, hey? 😯

Wish I'd shut up! Every time I say how nice it is it pishes down. Still they are only showers and it's dry again now! Best I dig out ma jacket for tonight's ride. I honestly don't know where it is it has been that long!

Me and my big mouth. "Summer" appears to have caught up with us proper now. Ok, so the ground and plants needed it, can we have less of the waterworld impressions now please!

I went out for a ride in Dronfield last night and the ground was waterlogged in places. Still was fun to get out in the woods as only recently moved to the area.

This year there seems to be a massive south east - rest of country divide weather divide. In surrey we haven't seen any mud (even infamous spots like yogurt pots) for about 2 months. Trails are dust bowls. Everywhere is baked completely dry. The rest of the country seems to be having a standard british summer. Riding in Wales a lot it seems about normal for this time of year?

I've been riding and walking on the Quantocks for over 25 years and never known it as dry as it has been this year, the weather can't have been too bad.

I went out and re-tested yesterday.

Yes - still nice and dry! Quite dusty. 😆

It is however worth remembering we don't have proper hills or trails, our beer is expensive, there is too much traffic and the people are all horrible without exception! So we are definately suffering for our good weather.

I wish it would rain here so I didn't have to water the garden all the time. Looks like it might be a bit cooler today at 25C, which is nice...

Yes, I tested it again last night too. Waaaaay too much dust in places, and what isn't dust is rock hard. 8)

And to those of you saying it's wet, or a normal summer -

[i]The first six months of this year were Britain’s driest January to June since 1929, with just 356.8mm average rainfall across the country, down on the long-term average of 511.7mm.

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You're wrong, basically. 😛

I had to go out in the heat of the mid-day sun yesterday to test it - hopefully the sweat that dripped off me will do something to firm up the parched, dusty ground. I'm looking forward to riding in the peak district this weekend so i can remind myself what a puddle looks like.

I'm looking forward to riding in the peak district this weekend so i can remind myself what a puddle looks like.

The way it's been raining over the last couple of days, best bring a snorkel.

United Utilities put a hosepipe ban into place for the the North West on the 2nd July.
Its pissed down every day since here.

Good call than. You'd look a rightb fool standing in the rain watering the plants.

The spell of bad weather is over. Blue skies here agai today after almost 18 hours of the odd heavy shower yesterday.

Well I rode in the pi$$ing rain Last Wed night and on sunday and still enjoyed myself 🙂 Who cares 🙂

I think Weather follows the mood of the locals, Down south everything is grand because we have a generally sunnier disposition and are better able to ignore the knackered economy and Dave & Co’s Cutback bonanza.

Up North the weather is miserable because that’s the way the Natives like it, they ain’t happy unless they’re able to whinge about something (or indeed everything)…

Discuss…

I'd go along with that.

Either that or it's something to do with geograpghy and meteorology....Who can say?

We all know Weather affects mood (the oft mentioned SADS), I propose a new theory: that it is in fact a circular relationship, and that mood can in turn affects Weather patterns, Now can Science conclusively prove or disprove my theory?

If it can't then I'm calling my theory a FACT! and I'll be whipping up a storm of ill informed contovesy based on it...

Seems reasonable. They're all miserable up North, so their weather must be their own fault.

One bonus - the surf has been OUTSTANDING for July!

Almost non stop swell - rare for the Summer.

Ah well, the couple of weeks of sunshine in June were nice but it has pissed down all day today and has been pretty much the same since the start of July.

So bad I just ordered a set of Swampthings from Next Day Tyres 🙁

Lovely and sunny up here today - AND we don't have to live in the crappy south - bonus!!

Scotland has two seasons, june and winter.

aye, Trailrakers going back on here in Glasgow - had the 'summer tyres' on for nearly 6 weeks 🙄

It's a bit showery and slippy in the SW. Not soggy or boggy though.

All seasons in one day up at Crag quarry this morning..

Moved down from up North a few years ago to Surrey and must say the summers have be way better down here.. especially this year 🙂

happy days for cycling and the cycle sun tan 🙂

July has been a bit iffy in Bristol but still better than the previous 3 years and it had been dry for a few months before that so I'd say pretty good so far.
I grew up in East Anglia so I was used to dry summers and hose pipe bans but the lack of hills and the fact that I didn't fancy my cousin meant I couldn't stay.

Bits of the flatlands round these parts are becoming unrideable due to deep sand. A decent spell of overnight wet wouldn't go amiss.

april* showers for the last 3 weeks here in Sheffield, the trails are just slippy enough to be fun, just grippy enough to be, er... grippy? - it's ace! - riding every day - i'm knackered!

(*well we didn't get them in april)

God it's grim up north...

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