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I love the hot weather. Feels like proper summer to me - I'm usually the one complaining the UK doesn't get distinct seasons and most of the time you can't tell what time of year it is. But then I do spend my days in a heavily air-conditioned office and I guess it's easier to enjoy the heat when I don't have to be in it 24 hrs a day. My only complaint is that I have to commute on very hot trains. And that I haven't been able to exercise: can't get to sleep early enough to be able to get up early enough to run before work.

Off to camping by the seaside near Weymouth tomorrow, where the temperature will be a few degrees cooler and the seawater temperature is a lovely 17 degrees. Perfect.

Come up north, all you southerners! It is a glorious 22 -24 degrees here, with the occasional gentle cooling breeze. Sheer bliss

The problem is that they would not understand what you're saying.

[janeg]

cheeky git!

Och Dom - awa' and bile yer heid!!!

I remember years ago getting to 16 deg in London. All the Poms were in the parks with their shirts off and bikinis on. I killed myself laughing and that was coming from the south of NZ. Now Greenmosnster, as an Aussie in the tropics, 16 is a cold winters night. We nearly can't get out of bed in the morning if it is 12deg! I can't swim in water much under 30deg either these days. People here have solar water heaters on their roofs to heat the pool in winter. Then they run them at night to take the heat out of the pool. Once it gets to about 33deg it is like swimming in soup. I love walking out at night into the heat and humidity after a day inside at work. We are lucky everywhere is different so that we can find somewhere that suits us. Must confess that sometimes in summer I dream of living where it snows again. Luckily that fantasy doesn't last much after the aircon has got working. It's nice to be talking about something other than food for a change.

Britain has the worlds best climate, but the worlds worst weather. Think about it.

Thanks to the Gulf stream (I think I'm agreeing with you, Julieathome, but I may have missed your point by a mile!).

In any event, the weather in this country (yes, not just a Brit but a Londoner) is very badly organised, IM not so humble O.

When I'm Prime Minister, the temperature will be set between 22 & 25 C all year round and it'll only rain at night (sorry, night workers!).

And if you think I'm gibbering, this is an edited version - I've a whole mad manifesto for when I'm PM (or Queen or Commander in Chief - depends on the phase of the moon).

Well, what they say about the weather here...if you don't like it, stick around it will change soon. You might even need your swimsuit and your snow coat in the same day!

I found this thread very amusing coming from Perth in Western Australia. We like to moan about the weather here as well but it's usually about the lack of rain. If it's 18 degrees and sunny like it is today, we all think, lovely day but what about the poor farmers whose wheat won't grow because of lack of water.

Today I am working from home and I am sitting in my office with two jumpers and ugg boots on. My fingers are frozen and my little heater is working overtime to warm me up.

When is it too cold for us? I think if the daytime temp is less than 16 then we all go around say "ohh isn't it cold". Nightime - anything less than 8 makes it really cold. Fortunately I was on autopilot this morning when I got up at 5:30 in the dark to go to my exercise session. When I got out of the car I realised that it was very cold indeed (about 4).

When is it too hot? Depends on the humidity. In Perth, the heat is dry and we have summer days in the 40s - that's too hot. But low 30s with high humidity is insufferable too. Air-conditioning everywhere makes it bearable, so I do feel your pain in the UK. Maybe the heat is helping our cricketers do better than expected in the Ashes!

Dsvid Mitchell in the Guardian recently: "Now the sun is finally shining, many of us have been reminded of how annoying it is."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... r-sunshine

In the global warming/next Ice Age debate I'd rather be kicking my way through the snow in a t-shirt. I have an old aircon from a few years ago and it sounds like a lorry full of angry cats backing over a china shop. The gear you can get now is brilliant by comparison, but gut it out for a couple of weeks because the discounts will be glorious.

My trusty hot water bottle as become my trusty cold water bottle, down the back of the trousers ,sorted. I love the sun just away foe my 8 mile walk 10am sun splitting the sky and already 28deg. And I live in the Highlands of Scotland I hope it lasts till October.

Still here, still too hot but am just getting on with it. Give me a bright, fresh spring or autumn day with a nip in the air anyday. Glad that we're all different and we all have our favourite seasons. Definitely a cold blooded creature at heart!

Forgot another bonus of summer though - fruit picking. Although I melted while at the pick your own farm this morning, I picked several pounds of raspberries and blackcurrants and have Scottish strawberries and cherries from kent in the fridge too. Don't eat vast amounts of fruit at other times of year but am very much enjoying all this bounty. And I am watching my courgette and tomato plants like a hawk...the flowers are just peeping open so hoping for a bumper crop, especially as I nurtured each of those plants from seed. For that, I can put up with a bit more sunshine...

The only good thing about this weather is my strawberries and there are loads of them. By the way judging by the first test the heat isn't helping the Aussie's too much in the ashes

It's great to feel a British summer that feels like the summers we had when I was a kid.
Since I was in my low 20's, a long time ago, I have felt that the sunniest, warmest times in Britain were the the last two weeks of May and the first two weeks of June. The rest of 'summer' was wet and gloomy. Last year was awful, 3 weeks in April of 21 centigrade and it didn't get above 17 the rest of summer. I didn't need to water my garden once last year, nor my hanging baskets. Mind you the winters were really bad for here, minus 22 centigrade at one point for us.

Thankfully, the heatwave is ending here. 88 today instead of 95 and expecting to lose a few degrees each day. The forecast showed one day with a high of 79. That is good news, I can make chili for that low day.