Can it be only last week that I was writing about hot summer days and uncomfortable sultry nights, sleeping with a fan whirring in the room?
The wind changed on Saturday, and the weather with it. In the course of one day, it went from 32 C to 18 C in Beetley, and the sunshine was replaced by looming clouds and blustery winds. By two in the afternoon, it was dark enough in the house to have to use lights in some rooms, and by eight at night cold enough to require wearing something warm on top.
That has continued since, with rare breaks in the clouds giving some idea of the summer they are concealing from us. Of course, June temperatures of 18-20 C are normal here. It’s just that after the three-day heatwave, they seem rather cold now, and the skies are looking bleak.
It taught me once again just how soon we can become used to something, and just as rapidly miss it when it has gone.
The weather at the moment is impossible to predict. I prefer it a little cooler so I am happier with the lower temperatures but I do wish the wind would calm down!
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It was classed as ‘gale force’ here yesterday, Abbi! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Who do you say that to, Pete! I hope the weather is a bit better now.. There is no need to honour the term “British Weather”. 😉 Best wishes, Michael
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The weather changed again to cloudy, dull, and cooler. The first week of July has not felt very much like Summer.
Best wishes, Pete.
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You are on the aisles. 😉 Sorry,but here – the first time for a longer period – we got 22+ degrees (C) and a lot of sun too. Hope you will have very soon a good summer too. Best wishes, Michael
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We had a windstorm here Monday, and it cooled us down considerably. Temperatures are now on the rise again, though…
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That’s life in the desert, I suppose.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Turning on the lights at 2:00 in the afternoon is very telling. I’s hard when the change in weather is so sudden and drastic. Best to you, Pete.
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That daytime darkness can be very depressing, Jennie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes, it definitely can.
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As you say, that tends to be the standard there. Here it’s turned a bit cooler today, but it was getting terrible, and it will get worse. Enjoy the relief, Pete.
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I hope you don’t suffer an excessively hot summer in Barcelona, Olga. After all your time in Britain, it must feel really hot there.
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I’m enjoying the rain season here. It’s been raining everyday for a week now. Bye bye intense heat, cheers to a cool weather.
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Glad to hear you have cooled down, Ngozi, but I wouldn’t like rain for a whole week.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Same here Pete. Our June weather is always fickle. We always say summer arrives in Seattle after the 4th of July…
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These ‘early’ summers are confusing me! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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That is an extreme change!
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It certainly is, Cindy. Even cooler today. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
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It’s 98 F here today Pete.🥵
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Too hot for me, though I expect the ‘good ole’ boys’ down south are used to that sort of weather.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m melting!🥵🥵🥵🥵
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Thunder, lightning and dark pouring rain as I type. The internet and phone are flickering and I am glad I am mostly done writing for today.
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Not that bad here. I hope you stay safe from the thunderstorms, Elizabeth.
Best wishes, Pete.
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My husband was hunkered down under a porch when the fire department and police department roared up to said building! I think the lightning must have hit the lightning road on the center. He was fine.
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I feel so much more alive now the temperature has dropped…..
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Glad to hear you feel better, Sue. It is cooler, but it has been so grey and dark here today, it has felt almost like winter.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yep, a dull day today
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The English summer is very fickle, Pete.
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You can say that again, Robbie! Don’t let it put you off moving here though. We don’t have baboons raiding our houses at least! 🙂 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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We have monsoon now. After an year of consistent rains, it is officially the rainy season. The intense heat and humidity combined in an effort to drive us crazy.
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I am so pleased that we don’t have a monsoon season. I think I would have to leave the country if we did, Shaily.
Best wishes, Pete.
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😁😁😁
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It was 28c, now we are sitting out a storm 🙂
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Feeld like late autumn here today, Eduardo.
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Hot and humid. High in the 90s. Besties!
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It is strangely like October here at the moment, Frank.
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I hate dark and dismal and grey and rainy. I never long for cooler weather and I never complain about it being too hot!
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I’m much the same, Mary. I like it about 25C and bright and sunny! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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same here, Pete. weather is fickle and unpredictable. love your last two lines! how very true! 🙂 🙂
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Thanks, Wilma After just three days of heat, it feels like Autumn now. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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It’s interesting that the highest for where I live today was 17, and it felt a bit warm in the sun, cool in the shade though. But I live in Australia, and it’s the middle of winter.
Things are quite different, many immigrants from the UK love it in the thank of Aus, but some can’t cope with our extreme heat when it comes (and seemingly getting hotter and hotter!)
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Ooops, typo, that should have read .’..in the land of Aus’
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Yes, any of your extreme temperatures (35+) would be too much for me, Carolyn. 🙂
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I am so happy it is cooler and now raining. Doing 17 people today, 3 an hour and wearing all the PPE makes me hot and sweaty so this is a blessed relief after last weeks heat.
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I know that sounds selfish, sorry mate!
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I get that. You and Phil have to work in the heat, and I don’t. I actually think 19 C is a good temperature, I just wish it wasn’t so dull and dark! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Still I am so jealous of cooler weather….I seldom miss the heat…..chuq
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This weather is actually okay. It is just dark and dismal though, so doesn’t feel like summer.
Best wishes, Pete.
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