8* this morning
Rain and wind all day.

Has summer just taken a fag break?

I wanted to light the wood burner yesterday.
Sad times.

Rain and sub 16 degree temps forecast all week do not a happy cyclist make.

I did light the wood burner 🙁

Oh well 🙁

I sat indoors in shorts and t-shirt yesterday with the window open watching the TdF. It was freezing.

Dunno what you’re talking about, it looks like a normal summer up here in Manchester…

I went on my first “winter” ride in July yesterday. Soaked through and shivering at the end of it.
It was beautiful weather on saturday evening when i went out for a run though, so only 50% complaining about the weather this weekend

Dunno what you’re talking about, it looks like a normal summer up here in Manchester…

London yesterday full of really miserable looking tourists (shell-shocked looking) and the weather was..

Went to an outdoor wedding on Dartmoor on Saturday…

Couldn’t have lucked out any more on the weather!

Weather on Saturday, glorious and sunny, sat outside the Old Gate having a beer, Sunday 13degs and raining.

Heating on here.

Spent the weekend near Aldeburgh, biblical rain overnight on Friday, big waves crashing onto the beach on Saturday & the sea the colour of builders tea! Cleared up on Saturday afternoon but back to normal on Sunday. The sound of rain on a caravan roof is usually quite soporific but not when it hammers all flippin’ night!
Cambridge Folk Festival next weekend so praying for an about-turn in the weather—pleeeeeaaasssse not another wet one–

folks, this is Britain.

Weather like this in July is perfectly normal.

Sorry.

folks, this is Britain.

Weather like this in July is perfectly normal.

Precisely.

It’s not though. We had a month’s rain in one day on Friday alone.

Saturday – sunny, went for a cycle
Sunday – grey – windy – forecast of rain – went for a cycle – it rained.

Still enjoyed it. Rule 5.

Rockplough – Member
We had a month’s rain in one day on Friday alone.

what’s your point?

edit: average uk rainfall for July is something like 100mm*. that is a lot to fall in one day, i don’t remember Friday being particularly wet…?

(an event like that would usually make the news)

(*and it’s quite variable, as you’d expect)

Puffer training innit

Sorry, it’s all my fault.

It is bogging out there. Should go for a ride, but can’t face it (and have too many other things to do anyway).

Supposed to be warm again next week…

It’s not though. We had a month’s rain in one day on Friday alone.

Yeah that’s never happened before.

Weather like this in July is perfectly normal.

It is, as is complaining about it 😆

(an event like that would usually make the news)

Only if it was the south of England. 😉

If you don’t like the weather in Britain, just wait for a few minutes.

It is, as is complaining about it

😀

Warm when the sun comes through though.

(an event like that would usually make the news)

It wasn’t hyperbole. The only reason I know is it did make the news.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33662965

and?

if the average rainfall is around 100mm, that would be about 3mm per day.

3mm per day, for the whole of July would be weird. One day with a lot of rain is not.

Winter is coming.

<scottish accent>

The nights are fair drawin’ in!

</scottish accent>

and?

You said it’s ‘perfectly normal’ weather. It’s demonstrably not. But whatever floats your boat (this rain most likely will).

It’s demonstrably not

Very little rain fell over the UK during the first three weeks of the month. With dry ground and high temperatures, a number of wildfires were reported across southern England, including the London area. The prolonged heat led to numerous Heat-Health Watch warnings from 13th to 23rd, mainly across the South East.

Later in the month, the weather broke down with a lot of showery activity, some of it thundery, giving some very large rainfall totals over localised areas. On 23rd, lightning strikes disrupted train and tram services in Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh. There was flooding reported in parts of Nottinghamshire on the 23rd, around Glasgow on the 25th and West Yorkshire on the 30th.

This is the historic report for July 2013…

You know its a shit summer when 14C and two hours of sunshine has you commenting on how nice the weather is!

In Glasgow we’ve just had extended daylight hours to mark the summer, the temperature has barely moved since April.

The thing is, I don’t mind it feeling like January… if it is actually January. But we went out yesterday and up on the open exposed moorland it was truly horrible. You couldnt see a thing as it was like riding through a cloud, it was really windy, the rain was horizontal, but it was warm enough to ensure you were sweating your arse off in a waterproof. Horrible!

She??

How very sexist…..

You said it’s ‘perfectly normal’ weather. It’s demonstrably not. But whatever floats your boat (this rain most likely will).

You’re talking about a single storm. He’s talking about that it can rain in July, that said it’s not unusual to get storms in July.

Looks like it’s brightening up over there.

*Dons Speedos*

*gets strangest boner*

*Tries not to dry heave*