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..... is this Spring/early Summer weather the worst we've ever had in the North of England?
I'm, ahem, 60 now and I lived in Pendle for 53 years and Brampton nr Carlisle for the last 7 and I'm pretty sure I can't remember such a cold, miserable period before.
It's warm and sunny down south.
It's Pendle. The sea evaporates, blows inland, hits Pendle Hill and sloshes it down into the valley. I'm getting somewhat sick of it TBH.
It's warm and sunny down south.
Not today it isnt! Blowy and moist here. We've had a few good days, but a real lack of consistency. Just as you get a touch of summer, back comes autumn with a gale and rain. It really needs to try harder!
Not today it isnt!
It's warm and sunny right now in Croydon. We had a couple of showers earlier, so that's out of the way.
I'm down South and I tend to agree with the OP - it's been one of the cooler years so far. Though fairly dry at least for us.
I put the washing out about an hour ago. By my estimate there's been nearly an inch of rain since.
It's Pendle. The sea evaporates, blows inland, hits Pendle Hill and sloshes it down into the valley. I'm getting somewhat sick of it TBH
I really miss Pendles weather
Newton-Le-Willows here. We had a pretty good Easter but since then it's been shit. Cold and windy pretty much all the time. Very fed up now.
[i]It's warm and sunny down south[/i]
Not down this south. Not today anyway.
Like I said, I live in Brampton now and if anything, the weather's worse than Pendle up here. I work in Haltwhistle and unbelievably, it's even worse there. Seriously though, we've probably had 3 days this year which your could say were Summer-like.
Harrogate here - had some dry spells but nothing really warm yet. However it is nowhere near as bad as 3 or 4 years ago when I was building makeshift windbreaks to protect my little vegetable plot from having its entire contents blown down the street.
Huddersfield here and wondering when the chuffing sun is ever going to appear.
Got soaked to the skin on saturdays ride above marsden
think it's been a rather nice spring 🙂
It's been pretty good by Manchester standards!
North Wales, been rubbish since Easter. The odd day now and then but it has been cold. (which is fairly normal for North Wales TBH)
It's warm and sunny down south.
Fibber.
I'm almost as far south as you can go.
Can't comment on the North - but not even close in South Wales - we had an especially good early spring - April was like June/July, since then we've the odd wet / windy day, but otherwise warm-ish, dry-ish, clear-ish, mostly over-cast with the odd shower - for my Wife who thinks it's only Summer if it's 25c plus and wall-to-wall blue skies it's been rubbish - for me, who only cares that it's light enough to ride in to the evening and not knee deep in mud - it's been great.
Worse Summers I remember are 2007 and 2008, as far I remember, it started raining in early May and didn't stop until October, honestly it rained every single day, up to the point when trails at Afan which had stood up to every horrible wet Winter in a decade started falling away from the hillside in huge lumps. 2006 was no walk in the park either - if I remember correctly it was so hot that, that was the year we (my mates and I) were setting alarms for 4am to get a ride in before it got too hot.
Fibber.
Cross my heart. It's a bit more cloudy now but still plenty of blue bits. Going on a road bike ride at 6.30 when I'm expecting more sunny intervals. If you're "as far south as you can go" then you're on the other side of England to Croydon.
lovely here in Devon
It's definitely windier.
Trails seem to be running pretty dry down south, will find out tonight how they've fared after Saturdays rain through (and drizzle all day today)!
Will you southerners basking in your glorious weather please sod off. 😀
climate [s]change[/s] damage... we're all doomed.
Not been the warmest year so far here in London Village but my cyclist's tan is coming on very nicely 🙂
Can't see this year winning any summer related awards....
...other side of England to Croydon
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Which side does Croydon sit on?
from my good man on Mt. Malvern:
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consistently cooler than last year, and than average. But no extremes.
As i mentioned in another thread, we havent had that much rain (Leeds) but i cant remember the last time we had a windless day. On the days there has been a light wind it has been raining, very much a mixed bag of weather apart from a persistant wind
Cool, dry, and very windy is my impression of the 'summer' so far. My Dad would have some theory about the Gulf Stream having moved, which seems to be his main concern about climate change.
[i]Cool, dry, and very windy is my impression of the 'summer' so far. [/i]
Yup
Pimpmaster Jazz - Member"...other side of England to Croydon"
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Which side does Croydon sit on?
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Croydon is in the South East of England, the opposite side to the South West of England - which is the most southern point in mainland UK. Croydon is 300 miles from Lizard Point. The two areas don't always experience exactly the same weather.
Did you really need to be told that ?
[i]I'm pretty sure I can't remember such a cold, miserable period before.[/i]
I'm pretty sure this thread appaers every June TBH...
was down south yesterday and they'd had so much rain over the weekend the Chilterns were much much more sodden that Hebden
Although the weather in the south has been ok in terms of rainfall sunshine it's been pretty cool, we've only had, what? 6 or 7 days with temps over 20C plus windy, so this
.Cool, dry, and very windy is my impression of the 'summer' so far
Good for the renewable energy production I suppose.
It's almost like the climate is changing......
Been utter shite. Still waiting to go and pick some strawberries with the kids which still aren't ready. Normally well in by now.
I have my annual Midland cyclists **** tan starting
On that point, I munched my first ripe strawberries today in Leeds.
Mmmmm, insecty fruit.
A bit cool down here generally, but pretty dry overall. Very sunny in Weston-Super-Mare yesterday, but bloody windy, and cold as a result; tee shirt/merino sweater/ultralight down jacket/Buffalo Windshirt, and I was still chilled, mainly because I had shorts on. Rather burned knees, now...
It's autumn in the GeordieLand ... 😡
Still got the woodstove alight here and a frost this morning 😀 from Surrey.
Someone local pointed out that here in Fife, the max temperature on June 21st was exactly the same as the max temp in dec 21 last year. Madness!
[quote=gofasterstripes ]It's almost like the climate is changing......
weather != climate
Relatively speaking I'm in the South, though way North of Ernie - and I don't recognise this dodgy summer at all here in the foothills of the SW Worcestershire Alps (very near Stoner, and I'd expect similar weather to P-Jay in South Wales). I was actually thinking we're doing quite well - sure it's not always been scorching and it's almost always been windy, but plenty warm enough most of the time and not huge amounts of rain. Was it 2012 or 2013 when it seemed never to stop raining after the end of April - now that really was a bad summer.
!Razzzz¡
Anyway, ye ken.
(And I realise the data points presented here are insufficient etc etc)
Well Mid Wales has been consistently lovely.
*smug face*
I'm in Munich and the summer here so far has been crap. Lots of rain broken up by a few warm and sunny periods, but we've only managed two nights down the river with the bbq compared to about 2 dozen times thus time last year.
Last weekend it was snowing at 1800m.
Strangely, the two visits to the UK this year have been quite pleasant.
Heat wave next week..
No.. really there is 25c+ temperatures coming...