We only get twelve months, but this year feels like there will only be eleven. June has been a complete write-off, with the worst weather in recorded history for the month in the UK, and there are only five days left to go.
Remember when I kept posting blog moans about the rain? How it rained for twenty days and nights, and parts of the country (including my outbuilding) were flooded? How I longed for that glimpse of summer, and some warm days and evenings.
I should have remembered to be careful what I wished for.
A few days ago, it stopped raining. I was so excited, I even posted about that on this blog. Then it started to get warm. In one day, the temperature went up by 10 C, from 15 C to 25 C. I was out in my shorts walking Ollie, actually feeling quite uncomfortably hot.
There wasn’t much sun though, and the grey skies made it feel clammy and humid. So the fan had to be used in the bedroom, as sleeping was hard in temperatures that still felt like daytime. As the sun continued to refuse to appear, and the sky got darker, I had that sinking feeling. Thunderstorms. This was confirmed by the weather forecasters, people who excel at predicting bad weather, but never seem to know when it will be nice instead.
Now we have them. Rain all night, then thunder and lightning this morning, as the rain gets heavier.
June, 2019. Best forgotten.
I’ve had the same experience Pete. I was moaning about all the rain,now I’m positively melting! One has to be careful what one wishes for.
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Thanks, Adam. I can cope with almost anything other than constant rain. The heat can be uncomfortable, but I have plenty of big fans. Rain makes me feel depressed though. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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We’re the same here,plenty of fans. And cold water. 🙂
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Pretty similar here in Ireland but the past two days have been dry and sunny. Fingers crossed for a better July.
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Thanks, Jean. Of course, it is supposed to rain in Ireland. 🙂 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes, best forgotten. Stay dry. Does Ollie mind the constant wet weather? Best to you, Pete.
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Ollie doesn’t seem to mind anything, as long as he gets his regular walks. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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That’s good! Best to you, Pete.
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We are on the edge of the heatwave thankfully, only 32c predicted today, but I will still have a break during the hottest hours and work more in the evening.
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Sounds like a ‘Polish siesta’ mate. 🙂
Cheers, Pete.
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Not good Pete. Hope you have a better July! Our spring here was pretty nice overall, and one of the warmest on record. But as soon as summer hit so did the rain. Who can figure?
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I think we all have to change our old preconceptions about seasons now. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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It keeps pouring again here too. Very odd June for sure. Glad I am not in Europe after seeing the weather or in India desperate for water.
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The hot weather in mainland Europe is breaking all known records. I am actually glad that it isn’t that hot here, but I would dearly love it to just stop raining. At least for one week.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Same here in Alberta Canada. We had snow near Banff last weekend. It was the coldest winter in forty years followed by the crappiest spring I’ve ever seen. The odd beautiful day but mostly rain, wind, cloud and or forest smoke.
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You have my sympathy, Starr. Two crappy Junes, an ocean apart. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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you had too much rain in June, Pete. hope July weather will be better. regards 🙂
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Fingers crossed, Wilma. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Since we moved to Alabama in May there hasn’t been one day that was out of the 90s. But then, we knew what we were getting into. You don’t move down South expecting freezing cold temps. As long as we don’t get hit by a tornado I’m happy.🌪
I’m sorry for your weather woes Pete. I just read something on CNN yesterday that scientists are predicting that we’ll keep seeing increasingly hot summers due to climate change.🙇🏻♀️
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Europe is experiencing record heatwaves, Kim. We are getting cloud and rain. Perhaps it is Brexit? 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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🤷🏻♀️
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If you were in Vegas in June,
You’d be singing a different tune!
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I have no doubt it would be too hot for me there, David. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I have not checked the stats, but get the feeling here in the Pacific North Wet, it seems to be drier than normal. I know I am having to water my pots a lot more than in past Junes. And, the rain gauge looks at me funny when I check it, I would swear it is saying, “You had to look? You have got to be kidding me.” Warmest regards, Theo
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When it is dry in the PNW, something must really be going wrong! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Perhaps, but June is a transition month for us from wet to dry.
Warmest regards, Theo
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You really do seem to have had it bad over there! My son is driving down from S Yorks in rain. Not sure where it ends or starts, but apart from some sea fog we are having another nice day here.
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It is supposed to start getting better from tomorrow. Isn’t is always tomorrow? 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
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It is rather amazing how things have a completely different meaning in different places and cultures.
In India, 25 degrees is considered as pleasant. We are facing 45+ degrees here.
Also, in most of India, rain is considered a great time to play outdoors, not thunderstorms though. Sunny days are what we dread. 😊
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Thanks for your comment comparing countries and cultures. I am aware that you get very high temperatures in India, but 25 C is considered hot here, and 31 C would be called a ‘heatwave’. 🙂 Even 20 C is considered to be acceptable, for our ‘summer’. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Same goes for Southern Nevada!
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I’m sure it does, David. Up to 45 C in France at the moment. All records being broken!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Sucks but I would give anything for a couple of days for rain…..our temps are already in the 100s and it will only get worse….chuq
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It doesn’t cool down when it rains here, chuq. Just gets uncomfortably humid. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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WE humidity as well…like today it is 80% but it is early (10:00 am)….chuq
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The weather here has been precarious all over for the last few years. It is concerning. Two years ago we had forest fires all around. You could not go out for the smoke. Even the inside air smelled of smoke. The fires in Gatlinburg caused $500 million in damages and 14 people lost their lives. The following year we had 90+ inches of rain. Hope July is a better month for you.
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Thanks, Maggie. At least we rarely get forest fires here. The wood is too wet to burn. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Have you been watching ‘Years and Years’ on television? The weather could get a lot worse…
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I really enjoyed that, Janet. I binge-watched it on i-player, over two days. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m with Ian, I’d rather have this than blazing heat, saw the temps in Europe at the minute and I’d expire if that happened here!
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It is too hot in Europe, but I just wish it would stop raining. It has been pouring here, and I am getting really fed up again. 😦
Best wishes, Pete.
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AW, it’s raining here too, I think I’m immune to it now!
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I need some of that ‘immunisation’! 🙂
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Totally agree, Fraggle – I don’t ‘do’ heat
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I also remember some terrible summers. It used to be the case that I’d go away in September or late August and when I came back to the UK people would tell me the weather had been wonderful while I was away, and it had only started raining when I had gone back, but now that I’ve moved out, I guess it can’t be my fault. Here it’s too dry, although there has been more rain over the winter than I remembered, but I hadn’t been here a whole year for quite a while, so I’m not sure if my memory serves me right. I know how depressing the weather can get there and I hope it does get better, although I’ve always felt that “summer” was an overstatement there… I’ll keep fingers crossed here for some improvement, Pete.
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Thanks, Olga. You are right about that ‘overstatement’, though I doubt we could cope with the 45 degrees you have is Spain. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Unusually for me, I’ve quite enjoyed the June weather. It’s normally too hot for my northern bones.
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Thanks, Ian. I don’t want it too hot, I just want it to stop raining! 🙂
Cheers, Pete.
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You can’t have it all, Pete!
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But just once would be nice. 🙂 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Unusually, I’ve quite enjoyed the weather in June this year. It’s normally far too hot for my northern bones.
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Here, we are not getting enough rain. It should have been raining but we are seeing too much of the sun and it is really worrying.
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Sorry to hear that. You can have ‘my’ rain. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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🙂
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Is it really the worst June ever? I remember some terrible summers
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According to the BBC, it is the wettest June ever recorded. 😦
Best wishes, Pete.
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Wow. That’s not good. It was a very dry spring but I think we’ve had enough rain now. My basil plants have nearly given up the ghost
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