Another crap Summer

[Iain H]

What do you reckon, after a totally crap summer I bet the environmentalists will soon be spouting all their crap about how it has been the hottest summer ever!! I am just waiting for it!!

I think we have already been told May was the hottest May ever. Absolute bullst, May was crap, but the hottest ever? I remember May 2000, my bike was in the garage for 3 weeks, 3 weeks when the sun never stopped shining, 3 glorious May weeks, yet not hotter than the ste May in 2008!! Hmmmm

I doubt they will come out and say oh, this summer was not the hottest, as that fks their argument about Global Warming, which they need to tax us to death!!

Sorry for the rant, but I am depressed about the weather, it is pissing down in Warrington, again, and I have 2 weeks off after tomorrow and the forecast is ste again!!

[rfn]

If it helps, the weather looks lovely outside the office. Not too hot, not raining, just nice.

[funkyol]

Iain H said:

What do you reckon, after a totally crap summer I bet the environmentalists will soon be spouting all their crap about how it has been the hottest summer ever!! I am just waiting for it!!

I think we have already been told May was the hottest May ever. Absolute bullst, May was crap, but the hottest ever? I remember May 2000, my bike was in the garage for 3 weeks, 3 weeks when the sun never stopped shining, 3 glorious May weeks, yet not hotter than the ste May in 2008!! Hmmmm

I doubt they will come out and say oh, this summer was not the hottest, as that fks their argument about Global Warming, which they need to tax us to death!!

Sorry for the rant, but I am depressed about the weather, it is pissing down in Warrington, again, and I have 2 weeks off after tomorrow and the forecast is ste again!!

Whilst the general consensus from the ignorant majority is that climate change = hotter summers, the actual result of climate change is what we are starting to get: wet humid summers, and mediocre winters with less / no snow. So no benefits.

Whilst I don't want to open that old chestnut / can of worms, and many will argue that climate change is a load of toss, I have certainly seen a change in our weather over the past 15 years.

[Einion Yrth]

Iain H said:

it is pissing down in Warrington, again,

I think I may have spotted your problem.

[tamore]

rain in the northwest of england shocker!

says it all that the last decent spell of weather you recall was 8 years ago!

[4hero]

Vertical rain bouncing of the ground a second ago in Edinburgh, and about 15°. Yes, it has been a crap year, must go out and pollute more

[Puggit]

My self made long range forecast (looking at pressure forecasts) is for a nice weekend - lighten up!

It better be nice, it's Puggit Jnr's birthday on Saturday...

[Tin Hat]

too true, same 'darn sarf.
Miserable- and now the nights are getting shorter!

[Teppic]

Iain H said:

I doubt they will come out and say oh, this summer was not the hottest, as that fks their argument about Global Warming, which they need to tax us to death!!

Sadly it doesn't fk up their argument at all:

When it's hot it's called Global Warming.

When it's cold it's called Climate Change.

They just call it by one of the above names depending on the prevailing weather conditions.

[biglepton]

Small Island parallel with Scandanavia and surrounded by Atlantic on one side and North Sea on the other gets unpredictable weather and sometimes isn't very hot shocker!

[Puggit]

biglepton said:

Small Island parallel with Scandanavia and surrounded by Atlantic on one side and North Sea on the other gets unpredictable weather and sometimes isn't very hot shocker!

I don't think so!

[Einion Yrth]

Puggit said:

biglepton said:

Small Island parallel with Scandanavia and surrounded by Atlantic on one side and North Sea on the other gets unpredictable weather and sometimes isn't very hot shocker!

I don't think so!

Denmark, Sweden and Norway make up Scandinavia, no? Shares latitude with (parts of) all three.

[minimax]

Puggit said:

biglepton said:

Small Island parallel with Scandanavia and surrounded by Atlantic on one side and North Sea on the other gets unpredictable weather and sometimes isn't very hot shocker!

I don't think so!

I seem to remember that our great nation lies on a slant ..and so might well be parallel with scandinavia (potential alert)

Edited by minimax on Monday 11th August 14:18

[timbob]

Einion Yrth said:

Puggit said:

biglepton said:

Small Island parallel with Scandanavia and surrounded by Atlantic on one side and North Sea on the other gets unpredictable weather and sometimes isn't very hot shocker!

I don't think so!

Denmark, Sweden and Norway make up Scandinavia, no? Shares latitude with (parts of) all three.

And we're on the same latitude as Moscow.

[Puggit]

"Shares latitude" is not the same as "parallel"!

The vast bulk of Scandinavia is North of the entire bulk of the UK

And they've had wet and warmer winters for the last 2 years...

[biglepton]

Puggit said:

"Shares latitude" is not the same as "parallel"!

It means precisely that, eg the 38th parallel - a line of the same latitude.

[Iain H]

I didn't mean to start an argument!! I was just fed up with the rain!!

I am not stupid enough not to realise the climate is changing and that the UK has unpredictable weather, but for 2 summers in the North West (where sometimes it doesn't rain, and over the last few years we have had some very good summers) it has done nothing but rain! I think 3 weeks ago was the only sunny warm weather we have had since last April!! It must get most people down after a while!! And then you get told it was hotter than ever when it blatently wasn't!!

The weather is definitely changing, the strength of some of those showers at the weekend was like something you get in the tropics!!

[shoestring7]

timbob said:

Einion Yrth said:

Puggit said:

biglepton said:

Small Island parallel with Scandanavia and surrounded by Atlantic on one side and North Sea on the other gets unpredictable weather and sometimes isn't very hot shocker!

I don't think so!

Denmark, Sweden and Norway make up Scandinavia, no? Shares latitude with (parts of) all three.

And we're on the same latitude as Moscow.

and Nova Scotia....

SS7

Edited by shoestring7 on Monday 11th August 14:30

[Iain H]

"It may be crap compared to, say, Florida, but it's completely fking normal for England.

Stop fking moaning."

Sorry for moaning, I thought the Pie and the Piston was somewhere where you could have a good old rant and get things off your chest. Sorry for the mistake!

[tamore]

Iain H said:

I didn't mean to start an argument!! I was just fed up with the rain!!

I am not stupid enough not to realise the climate is changing and that the UK has unpredictable weather, but for 2 summers in the North West (where sometimes it doesn't rain, and over the last few years we have had some very good summers) it has done nothing but rain! I think 3 weeks ago was the only sunny warm weather we have had since last April!! It must get most people down after a while!! And then you get told it was hotter than ever when it blatently wasn't!!

The weather is definitely changing, the strength of some of those showers at the weekend was like something you get in the tropics!!

balls! i spent the first 18 years of my life in manchester, and there was only 3.5 minutes in all that time it wasn't raining! i can remember summer storms of armageddon proportions.