i'm not normally one to really notice the weather, i rarely look at the forecast (unless i'm planning on going somewhere or doing something) but this summer has to be even worse than last year.
there are just so many things i want to do and the windy rainy weather just puts me off doing them - you know nice long walks, heading to the beach with my friends and doing some kiting, and generally just visiting random english heritage/national trust places and having a nice day out in the local area, but i really just don't fancy going out and being battered by high winds and rain.
we were fortunate to have wonderful weather during the last week of july and the start of august when we had a week long break in the lake district, but after that the settled dry has seemed to have been non-existent.
our british summers always used to last longer than this, i seem to recall the summer holidays at school in the 80's and 90's as being much more settled than this, or have i got my rose tinted specs on?
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Dr Lobster*
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My memory of 90s school summers was that it pissed down, and then glorious sunshine reigned on the day I went back. But everyone would always speak wistfully of how good "last year" was.
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Joe Public
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No - I would agree - The six weeks holidays in the 80s did seem more settled
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There are a few years which stick in my memory when the summer was lovely and hot for at least a good month or so.
1995 - Spent two weeks visiting relatives in south west London. Every day was hot and sunny. The underground in the capital was boiling hot.
2002 - A nice, warm summer. I remember it because I started my first job in radio in June 2002 and through until the end of August it only rained a couple of days.
2003 - A very hot and sunny summer. I remember that every day throughout July and August it was wall-to-wall sunshine (or at least cloudy and warm - kinda thundery on a couple of days).
2005 - A very warm summer. I was living in Cardiff at this point and had just moved into my new apartment. It was boiling hot every day until about the middle of September.
2006 - July 2006 was very warm and sunny nearly every day.
2007 - A shitty, rainy, cold and windy summer.
2008 - The same, if not worse, than 2007.
2009 - Don't get your hopes up!
1995 - Spent two weeks visiting relatives in south west London. Every day was hot and sunny. The underground in the capital was boiling hot.
2002 - A nice, warm summer. I remember it because I started my first job in radio in June 2002 and through until the end of August it only rained a couple of days.
2003 - A very hot and sunny summer. I remember that every day throughout July and August it was wall-to-wall sunshine (or at least cloudy and warm - kinda thundery on a couple of days).
2005 - A very warm summer. I was living in Cardiff at this point and had just moved into my new apartment. It was boiling hot every day until about the middle of September.
2006 - July 2006 was very warm and sunny nearly every day.
2007 - A shitty, rainy, cold and windy summer.
2008 - The same, if not worse, than 2007.
2009 - Don't get your hopes up!
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Well, if it's any consolation, I swear we're having the coldest winter here that I can recall. It's been decidedly icy most mornings, and I'm wearing more layers of clothing than I've had to in previous years.
I blame global warming.
I blame global warming.
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Its been hot, humid and wet here. Resulted in some wicked storms. Good old electric storms makes you glad to be alive to witness mother nature when she's got the hump.
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Here's Northern Ireland's latest new sooper-dooper road, an underpass to cary traffic on the Westlink between the M1 and the M2, opened a month ago.
And here it is on Saturday evening with an estimated 100 million litres of river in it (the first picture is taken from the bridge, which you can see in distance of the second picture). The water was six metres deep in the middle.
The underpass is built between two underground rivers which overflowed into neighbouring streets and straight down into the underpass and the pumps couldn't cope. The road remains closed, they're still pumping it out and digging out mud with slurry tankers.
With 203% of the average August rainfall so far, it is likely that by the end of the day (it's still raining) that the all-time August rainfall record for NI will have been broken and it's only the 18th.
And here it is on Saturday evening with an estimated 100 million litres of river in it (the first picture is taken from the bridge, which you can see in distance of the second picture). The water was six metres deep in the middle.
The underpass is built between two underground rivers which overflowed into neighbouring streets and straight down into the underpass and the pumps couldn't cope. The road remains closed, they're still pumping it out and digging out mud with slurry tankers.
With 203% of the average August rainfall so far, it is likely that by the end of the day (it's still raining) that the all-time August rainfall record for NI will have been broken and it's only the 18th.
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Yes I watched the live from there on Breakfast this morning. Mental, innit.
Being on the waterfront as we are here, I had to search for the 1:400 year flood barriers which the architect was obliged to design into the building scheme. The weather last week was just unbelievable.
Was raining hard this morning, but it seems to have cleared for a bit.
The ducks seem to like it, though.
Being on the waterfront as we are here, I had to search for the 1:400 year flood barriers which the architect was obliged to design into the building scheme. The weather last week was just unbelievable.
Was raining hard this morning, but it seems to have cleared for a bit.
The ducks seem to like it, though.
The area partially flooded last year before it had been completely excavated. The designers were asked if they were concerned about the potential for flooding but said they weren't, as that particular rainfall event only happened once every 20 years or so, and the pumps would be able to deal with it when it was finished.
I suspect there are some very worried civil engineers studying drawings today.
I suspect there are some very worried civil engineers studying drawings today.