Are we going to have a summer

Whatever happened to global warming?

It's been non stop rain here in the UK, we're lucky to see a bit of sun peeping through the clouds now and then.

Last summers hosepipe ban (due to not enough rainfall) is set to be replaced with a dodgy drains warning (due to too much rainfall).

My serotonin levels are critical, I need some sun!!

how can people complain about rain? I would love to live somewhere (apart from the UK) where it rained a lot.

I dont mind the rain but we get rain for the rest of the year too, at least in the summer we're entitled to a bit of sunshine.

Oh wow, you guys are not getting much heat? Hear in North East US, the summer has been very hot this year. Also the west has been getting it hard, with many forest fires. I hear the the south is getting rains though and summer has been mild, which has led them to question the whole validity of global warming.

This is exactly what Global warming does, droughts and heat in some places while increasing and heavier rainfall in others. Storms intensify and climatic extremes become more common. The cyclones in Asia have been very intense with heavy flooding in Oman and then later in Karachi and Baluchistan.

It felt like we were not going to get any winter this year with very mild temperatures all the way through January. But then we had extreme cold for over 2 weeks with the temperature constantly below freezing. If this pattern holds then hopefully before the end of summer you will get your share of hot days .

I want some sun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
C'mon is it too much to ask for?

Booked hotel & amusement park tickets months ago for next week.

Not looking good for this 'summer'.

i feel for you guys...june here was rainy as well...but july has been too hot...temperatures in the high 20's and low 30's celcius...

and global warming does not necessarily mean warm temperatures...its refers more to erratic weather patterns...

global warming deoesnt necessary means hot summers..

well this summers rainfall should cover next two summers water supply..

serotonin supplements eact bananas, kiwifruits , tomatoes. although not sure how thesun can help you make some?

oxy where you going?

there are half prices rooms at alton towers...

No use if you cant get there!

Just had to cancel our trip to Alton Towers for this week.

Just seen footage of the M5/M50 - its totally flooded - 6ft high! Impossible to pass.

come to Seattle (Washington state). I was there couple of weeks ago and it rained average of 4 times a day but it was not heavy rain. It was probably more. Nice place, gets cold in winters but traffic can be bad and Vancouver (Canada) is about 130 some miles from there

apparently its because the gulf stream which runs a few thousand miles north of the uk has moved soth...tapering off over england and we will have this system for the next few MONTHS!! so said francis on sky news!! (man that guy is still around??)

I'll only believe it if Lisa says it

Its all God's fault ultimately.

He doesnt want me to make good on my promise to take the kids to Alton Towers.

While we are blaming things i'll blame that Rihanna record as since everyones been buying that it's been raining none stop.

Suprisingly it did not rain at all today in Birmingham.

I really could've used an umbrella on Friday, I was soaked through

Just 'popping out' to Cornwall tomorrow morning with kids in the back of the big bad Merc. Looking forward to 6 hours and 350 miles of driving in total luxury. Going to Hyle, near Land's End. Went there last year as well. Lovely sandy beach, Penzance. St Ives, Land's End within 10 miles, lovely. Absolutely wild and rugged sea (over 3000 recorded shipwrecks), once a safe haven for smugglers, pirates and wreckers. I love it there, simply adore it.

a few days left to my annual pilgrimage to UK .... cannot imagine why I would want to leave sunny Bahrain and fly 7 hours to get drenched !

Man I booked 2 weeks holidays from work, hoping I could take wife and kids out..not looking good

It's about time the softies in the south faced the crap that has been thrown at us for the past couple of months

Haha, it seems like summer in the UK has been colder and rainier than the past few 'winter' days in Sydney. I'm probably going to end up jinxing the weather though

No.

It would seem that there literally isn't going to be a summer this year. La Niña is forming and for some reason that I don't understand that messes up our summer.

I've lost my hotel bookings for this weekend. No-refundable!!!!

I hate the UK sometimes!

At the start of April I was looking forward to a great summer and mainly looking forward to playing for my cricket team, apprantly it has'nt gone to plan and since early june it's been nothing but crap winter weather, all those practice sessions gone down the drain and the tournament is only 2 weeks away, also our cricket team has'nt had any decent practice.

british weather sucks

Indian cricket supporters wont agree with you!!

they should outsource it

doubt we will get any sunshine all year the rate the rain has been coming down

we already had summer in april. We can be expecting good weather every summer.

take a trip to pakistan for a few days ... temp hit a balmy 120 when i was there a month ago

Sucks to be you guys. Middle of winter here and the weather was nice enough to go out without a jumper/jacket.

At this time last year wasn't it like a heatwave in the UK? I remember June and July having temperatures in the 30s. Just goes to show what a crappy climate we live in.

I'm looking out the window right now and there is hailstone coming down - I cant believe its July.

The whole thing about climate change is that weather will become more extreme more often. E.g. this winter was one of the warmest on record, and up until March the snowfall for Boston was 2 inches (average for that time was 25 inches). then in April and May we got heaps of snow, more than the usual. Now we've had a scorching summer where the temp has regularly been in the 90s.

We're changing our planet, no mistake about it.

40 minutes later and there isnt a cloud in the sky, really warm and bright sunshine.

Whats going on ?

That's British weather for you. The British weather can be strange, this often happens where I live in the midlands, about a year ago, the day started off in heavy rain, then 2 hours later the sun came out, half an hour later heavy rain again, then an hour later warm sunshine, 2 hours after that heavy rain yet again!.

it is Tea time

The first week of the summer holidays - went nowhere, cost me £100 already because of these floods.

This morning it was like a monsoon. I've never seen rain like it in my life. There was a puddle the size of a lake on the pavement outside my house. If August is as bad as this i might as well go into hibernation.

Temp in Barcelona is over 30º now and it will only get hotter.

While europe is basking in the sun. Here in england we are drowning in rain!!?

bright sunshine today. woohoo

lovely day today beautiful!!!

Lovely day today, and it's started to drizzile a bit now. I'v got a cricket match in Leicestershire tommorow, which I'v been looking forward to some time now, Hopefully the rain don't spoil the match tommorow.

Enjoy the rain, in Kuwait it was 52 degrees and 75% humidity yesterday

Finally summer has arrived! Fantastic sunny day today with temperatures hitting the 30s. Have not had any rain during the day now for over a week.

Lovely day cloudy n sunny 28!

London is burning, it is hot here without fans and air conditioning.

oh man, its freaking too hot and can't even sit down with out glass of water. Maybe I should just go to the 24/7 gym and sit one of them steam places to take out all the heat.

Hah, typical poms. Always complaining. Its too cold, no its too hot. Does nothing to dispel the stereotype

Hey, seems like we might have a summer to rival '03-05 afterall!!