This Summer

[Caran]

What do you remember about it, apart from the lockdown?
Would you consider it to be the hottest on record?
I know we had a few nice bits but I wouldn't say it was the hottest on record.

[emmie]

that it was lovely, i spent some time with my family on the coast, and the weather was glorious. I wish we could have more sunnier days it makes people feel happy doesn;t it?

[Unsureme]

Certainly wasn't in the North-East.

[emmie]

not sur about hottest on record but in brothers garden temps regularly reached the 90's, where i sunbathed and generally chilled.

[woofgang]

Hot weather makes me feel hot and cross

[Caran]

I know we had some nice days but I wouldn't have said it was the hottest on record. Mind they do seem to say this every year!

[emmie]

really, it makes me happy i don;t like the cold weather, had too much of that when we were kids.

[Bazile]

//Would you consider it to be the hottest on record?//

Are you serious - don't you remember 1976, - at least ?

[emmie]

2018 was the joint hottest summer on record for the UK as a whole, and the hottest ever for England, the Met Office has announced. It said highs for summer 2018 were tied with those of 1976, 2003 and 2006 for being the highest since records began in 1910. England's average temperatures narrowly beat those seen in 1976, they added.

[Caran]

I certainly remember 1976! It seemed never ending. I remember when it broke I sat on the front doorstep and got soaked I was so happy!

[emmie]

some like the sunny days, some may not, i personally prefer the warmer weather, as i tend to become hermit like in the winter months

[shaneystar2]

It was glorious here in Norfolk. When I eventually saw my son after lockdown he said I looked as if I'd been on a beach abroad somewhere.
My back garden is a suntrap and I like nothing better than sitting in the sun.

[emmie]

yes indeed shaney, my brothers garden is like that

[Buenchico]

The Met Office's detailed summary of the summer's weather shows that, while the mean temperature was just a little higher than usual (by 0.4C), there was only 89% of the average sunshine for that time of the year and rainfall was 34% higher than average:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/weather/learn-about/uk-past-events/summaries/uk_monthly_climate_summary_summer_2020_3.pdf

[gness]

Climate change means the temperatures aren’t anything to go by when we ponder on whether or not we’ve had a good summer.
It may have been warm or hot here but I’ll remember it as the summer of storms. I’ll settle for warm and calm.......long periods of calm.

[emmie]

i was lucky to spend 10 days with family back in August, and it was one sunny day after the other

[douglas9401]

Climate variation or fluctuation.

[LadyCG]

My abiding memory of this summer is being on crutches and wholly dependent upon others. I remember daily "dad updates" from my cousin regarding the progress of my uncle who has now been receiving intensive and latterly 24-hour care for his long Covid. We hope he will be home for Christmas as they think his mental health is now in decline. I remember trying to support my mother when she lost her twin sister.

One of my happier memories is watching the little one splashing in his pool at my parents' house and the dog going nuts because he wanted to get in too.

[emmie]

mine is my brothers 70th birthday party, that was good and to see all the family

[10ClarionSt]

I seem to recall people moaning about the absence of summer in July and August. The last two days of our holiday in August at Woolacombe saw a huge strom blow in and send the beach huts floating away. Happy days!

[emmie]

not me, i was at brothers, it was scorching. Down on the south coast