# WTF is wrong with England this "summer"?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 22, 2007, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477 "2007-08-22T09:03:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/1 "2007-08-22T09:03:25Z")
Ok, I moved here from Seattle 6 years ago. It rains here a lot, it’s way far north, it’s on the same latitude as Moscow. It’s dark, it’s grey, and it’s cold. I get it, I really do.
But what the hell happened to summer this year? It’s fucking August, I’ve already got seasonal affective disorder, I’m wearing a sweater and jeans and wool socks _ **IN MY FLAT** _, and it’s pissing down rain and cold as hell out side. Global warming my speckled arse.
What.
The.
Fuck.
Look, England - I don’t bitch about the winters. I don’t bitch about the food. I even don’t bitch too much about the chavs and the scumbags. I don’t bitch about the high prices, crowds, or drunken scum picking fights and throwing kebabs and cans of lager about outside the train station at 2am.
But this is just taking the piss. Sort this out immediately, or I promise you, England, action will be taken!!
_ **YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!** _
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### Author:  [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/2 "2007-08-22T09:20:45Z")
Its not just England, its all of North-Western Europe I think. I mean, come on, I was explicitly warned about the Parisian summer. From my experiences this summer I think they were all taking the piss. Its not much different to a typical British summer…
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### Author:  [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/3 "2007-08-22T10:24:31Z")
Too fucking right.
We had the central heating on this weekend - mid-August and the radiators were cranked up to full. :mad:
Our team’s cricket season has consisted of exactly _one single match_ since May… every other game has been rained off.
We’d better see some decent snow this winter to compensate, otherwise I’m going to go buy the most carbon-hungry appliances I can find to make sure we get these blazing summers the climate-doom folks are promising.
My work jumpers are coming out of the wardrobe this weekend - I was freezing in shirt-sleeves this morning, but our office heating won’t be on until the autumn.
Grrr.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/4 "2007-08-22T10:29:14Z")
We’ve actually used our new fireplace twice this summer.
Fuck this shit!
Though I have to say it was lovely for about a week between August 3rd and August 10th.
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### Author:  [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/5 "2007-08-22T10:35:35Z")
North Scotland’s weather is completely borked as well. Any sort of outdoor activity now requires you pre-pack gear covering 4 standard seasons, with a good chance you’ll use the lot in a day.
Climate change - no shit, it changes ever 10 fucking minutes. I’ve had bike trips where I’ve gone from t-shirt and shorts to jumper, waterproof overtrousers and jacket, back to t-shirt and shorts, then back to waterproofs, all in a matter of minutes. I was beginning to feel like a mountainbiking cabaret act.
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### Author:  [@MJinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJinks)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/6 "2007-08-22T11:39:46Z")
I’ve quite liked this ‘summer’. I can’t stand the high heat that everyone else seems to love. I just wish it wasn’t so bloody windy!
I might feel differently if I lived in a flood-risk area…
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### Author:  [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/7 "2007-08-22T11:43:16Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm]
Though I have to say it was lovely for about a week between August 3rd and August 10th.
[/QUOTE]
Yeah, right when I was on holiday. My flatmate laughed at me and told me I ‘missed summer’ when I got back, but fuck - at least I had a bit of a tan from being Stateside for 3 weeks.
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/8 "2007-08-22T12:12:26Z")
A wandering Jet Stream has fucked us.
> [@](#):
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> The northern jet stream is a westerly wind, about 11 kilometres above the earth’s surface, steering weather systems across the Atlantic.
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> It is flowing farther to the south than usual this year, allowing a depression, or low-pressure system, to settle over Britain. Normally, the jet stream blows farther north and acts as a barrier, preventing such bad weather from reaching the UK.
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> The stream is meandering, and Britain currently finds itself in the down trough, bringing poor weather. The upstream, meanwhile, has brought hot weather to the south of Europe, because the low pressure over northern Europe is pulling warmer air from Africa towards it.
[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ed389170-3c68-11dc-b067-0000779fd2ac.html](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ed389170-3c68-11dc-b067-0000779fd2ac.html)
Oh and in general a warmer planet is a wetter planet 😉
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### Author:  [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/9 "2007-08-22T12:13:54Z")
Summer was in April this year, didn’t you get the memo? The upcoming bank holiday is looking good for the southeast at least.
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### Author:  [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/10 "2007-08-22T12:14:19Z")
I’m in Boston, and it’s not any better. I’m on vacation this week, and I’d planned on spending every day at the beach. Since Saturday, it’s been partly cloudy, windy, and the temperature hasn’t risen above 70F. I am Not Amused.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/11 "2007-08-22T12:15:50Z")
Move to Australia. Our summers are so hot, we’re suffering a serious, possibly terminal, drought.
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/12 "2007-08-22T12:17:12Z")
Gentle breeze and 31 deg C here. People sometimes ask me why I left the motherland 😃
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### Author:  [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/13 "2007-08-22T12:21:45Z")
[QUOTE=yojimbo]
A wandering Jet Stream has fucked us.
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Fucking jet streams. Bastards come over here with no respect for the way we do things. The whole country is going to hell in a hand basket because of the likes of them.
I blame the E-bloody-U.
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/14 "2007-08-22T12:29:39Z")
Today is actually quite nice over here to be honest. Here’s a pic from out my window at work about 10 mins ago.
[http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1857/dsc00166jc2.jpg](http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1857/dsc00166jc2.jpg)
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/15 "2007-08-22T12:31:46Z")
Feck off, **yojimbo**. The thread title says ‘England’.
😛
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/16 "2007-08-22T12:34:56Z")
According to most of the world it’s the same thing 😃
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### Author:  [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/17 "2007-08-22T12:36:30Z")
[QUOTE=yojimbo]
Today is actually quite nice over here to be honest. Here’s a pic from out my window at work about 10 mins ago.
[http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1857/dsc00166jc2.jpg](http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1857/dsc00166jc2.jpg)
[/QUOTE]
You well, truly, and thoroughly suck. I think I may even hate you a little bit.
[http://weather.msn.com/local.aspx?wealocations=wc:UKXX0085](http://weather.msn.com/local.aspx?wealocations=wc:UKXX0085) is what sunny Ol’ London town looks like today.
**garius** - definitely the bloody foreigners. Can’t stand them, coming over to this fair isle, talking their gibberish and making with their foreign ways and stealing proper English jobs and women and making the weather turn to shite! Toss the lot of them out, I say.
Oh, wait, what was that? I was one of the filthy foreign horde 6 years ago and am dating a fair English rose meself? Oh, well…
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### Author:  [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/18 "2007-08-22T12:37:33Z")
[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin]
Gentle breeze and 31 deg C here. People sometimes ask me why I left the motherland 😃
[/QUOTE]
You suck too. This is a vent about England, not some nice namby-pamby-pleasant-weather-country. So just be silent if you can’t join in my wrath, hear?
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### Author:  [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/19 "2007-08-22T12:38:54Z")
[QUOTE=kferr]
Summer was in April this year, didn’t you get the memo? The upcoming bank holiday is looking good for the southeast at least.
[/QUOTE]
Shit, missed it.
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### Author:  [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-wrong-with-england-this-summer/416477/20 "2007-08-22T12:45:53Z")
It’s because it’s dual language, German & English, but this [calendar](http://www.amazon.co.uk/2008-Weather-Photo-Calendar/dp/3832721916/ref=sr_1_2/203-4981423-0587947?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187786580&sr=8-2) has it about right…
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