The British weather is always a topic of conversation and as all of you in the UK know it's very hot here at the momment. According to my car it's 36 degrees C phew!

As much as I like warm weather the Uk is not equiped for it, e.g. No air con in homes so you can't get to sleep at night.

The kids are miserable, it makes you tired and no end of other things that make you grumpy.

Anyway I was just wandering, that since people from all around the globe use this site what's the weather doing where you are?

Does the weather stop you doing anything (british trains can't run if we have the wrong sort of snow)?

Do you like the rain?

Do you worship the sun?

As I said I was just wandering

I grew up in southern California, where there wasn't much difference between the seasons, then lived for a time in Utah where it's hot and dry in the summer and always snows in the winter. Now I'm living in North Carolina where it's hot and humid in the summer and gets cold but rarely snows in the winter.

A year and a half ago we were hit by an unexpected snow storm here in North Carolina. It snowed for a few hours and produced several inches, not a ton of snow by any means, but the whole city shut down. Kids were let out of school, businesses shut down, and everyone rushed to their cars so they could sit in traffic for several hours. A friend of mine lives half an hour to the north, but that day it took him over 11 hours to get home! Having just lived in Utah, I was shocked to see this sort of thing happen, but since they're not used to getting snow here, people aren't used to driving in the snow, and they weren't able to mobilize any sort of snow plows or salt trucks before the traffic ground to a halt.

Currently, the weather here is 96 F (about 36 F) and not too humid, but weather.com says it feels like 103 F (over 39 C). Tropical storm Beryl is currently brewing off the coast here.

I have been in Arizona most of my life and it always gets extremely hot and humid during the summer's. i truly hate it and i wish that we would stop getting highs of 111 degrees or higher. bleh!!! i love it though when it's winter time because it is always so cold and rather better than the hot, killing heat.

any other time during the year is always nice and a definite difference from the summer. spring, we get breezes and whatnot, fall is getting cooler and getting closer to christmas and whatnot, and winter in my opinion is the best season of the year because if we have a super hot summer then that means we'll have a freezing cold winter which is fantastic. for some reason i have always been better and more partial to the winter. funny though because i was born a spring baby. anyway i am going to be soooo happy when summer is over but i think next year my be even worse for high temperatures! ughhh!!

etphonehome i also live in the UK but i live in north-east Scotland so it's not as hot here as it is down in England It's only about 26 degrees C here, which i have to admit is hot for Scotland! It's too hot to run about so i think i'll just sit outside eating an ice cream! However i've heard that it's going to rain at the weekend so i better make the most of the sunshine.

HA! Hahahah!

When I saw this topic, there was absolutely no doubt in my mind that a Brit had started it! Quaint nation, you! I absolutely love how the weather is a constant topic of conversation in the UK. It really is a factor to be considered there, what with the way in which it can change so quickly sometimes, or stay the same for weeks.

I was in London, the Cotswolds and the Lake Districts in the past four weeks, and I was praying for rain after a while, because I would have felt enormously cheated if I had gone to England and it hadn't rained. Luckily, Wimbledon started , so I experienced the odd shower or two.

For the rest the weather was positively tropical - I couldn't have hoped for better.

It's winter here in South Africa now, and I'm only slowly becoming accustomed to the slightly colder temperatures - not too much colder, just nigglingly chilly.

well i live in california, and really its not bad weather. hehe this summer is probably one of the hottest summers, but its only reached about 90 degrees F which is probably about 33 degrees C. i love the weather here, but i wish it would snow lightly just once. we never had a light snow fall where i live, but i would like to experience just one. and it doesnt rain that much, but i wish it did (mainly so that i wont have to do P.E. haha).

i love cold weather better than hot. ha, id rather freeze outside rather than walking around from class to class in hot weather. but i bet in the philipines (sp?) and southern mexico its hotter, much hotter. i want to go to chicago though. its called the "windy city" and i like windy so id probably visit there one day and check out the weather.

Capricorn, you know us Brits..That was exactly what I was thinking..we always talk about the weather and it controls so much of what we do.

It makes or breaks a good holiday...today it's a nice sunny 26, ideal for being on a beach somewhere and yet the long range forecast for when I go on holiday is a freezing 13..that's only 10 days from now..typical.

My niece was supposed to be getting married in mexico last November but hurricane wilma or rita knocked the wedding hotel down! Still she eventually got wed in Cornwall Uk...in February..on the beach brrrr!!

Fall_out_girl you wish it would snow? You should come to Ballater. It shows regularly every winter, which usually means a few days off school. Haha. A few years ago it snowed for 5 days non-stop. There was about 4 foot of snow. It was great.

Yesterday it was 27 degrees C with brilliant sunshine. Today it's dull and cloudy and it's only about 20 degrees C Well that's Scottish weather for you. One minute it's sunny, the next minute it's raining. Anyway in our exciting village of Ballater everyone talks about the weather. You see people passing each other in the street saying things like "lovely day" and "beautiful weather"- it's weird

I have to say i hate the British weather....

Not because it always rains but because in the Summer, it gets hot (it's almost 100 fahrenheit yesterday), and i don't like it that hot. In autumn it gets windnd grey, so it's my favourite season weather wise. In Winter i's not cold, it's just...dull. In spring it's getting warmer, but it's still nt particularily warm...I'm just hard to please!

Plus nothing eventful happens in the weather, there is rarely a random snow storm, or electric storm or even a completely random shower of rain.



Laurette, that's so true....Why does it always rain as soon as Wimbledon starts??? Luckily it didn't rain while i was there this year, but a couple of years ago it poured about 3:00 and we had to sit in the school minibus, waiting for it to stop...

I think that when i'm in New York, the weather is too humid, but i like the unpredictability of living by the sea, and it never gets to hot, but is nice and windy aswell, and rains a fare bit... I'm much more of a rain and wind guy,than sun and heat!

Nick

hehe..weather..
Well I've lived in Massachusetts all my life..and it was really really hot tuesday..felt like 108 and today its cold and rainy..the weather can change in a hour here. Fall_Out_Girl..snow is fun for a little while..but if you have no school you have to make it up and your parents make you shovel..and its icey and cold and wet lol..somtimes fun..if you get the right snow for fights and snowman.
Courtney

I live in Maryland, really close to D.C.

In DC during the summer it is always hot, humid, and abosolutely no breeze. It's like living in a jar. Not to mention all the storms. A few weeks ago we had rain and thunderstorms non stop for 5 days or something. If it had been snow, there would have been 77 inches! Now we are supposed to have storms basicallt everyday this week. On monday the temperture was 100 F, but it felt like 105 F.

Did I mention hurricanes? Sometimes, during the summer or fall, we get a hurricane. A few years ago we got Hurricane Isabel, and we lost our power for a week, and didn't have school for 3 days. we stayed over at my grandmother's house because they had power and air conditioning.

During the winter we get snow every once in a while. always about 3 inches or so. But one year we got 2 feet and we got to miss a whole week of school. That was fun.

We have wacky weather here in DC.

I've heard that in the UK it's going to get really hot again next week I hate thunderstorms- not that we get them often in the North-East Scotland. We had a really big one(for us anyway) last year which lasted for about half the night! I hated it. It's much worse where i live in Ballater because it's in a valley so the rumbles echo really badly.

One of the best things about living in the Miami, is that it's hot year-round. So people are quite use to the heat here. Because of this, most people have AC in their house. And it doesn't get too hot here in the summer, compared to DC for example, but that is becuase during the summer it rains here a lot. The rain as we know helps lower the temperature. So normally we get upper 80's and lower 90's. But it's still hot and totally annoying with the heat index making it feel like 100's!
I just wish it was winter all year round. I can stand the cold, but not the heat.

Anglophile..I'm shocked..you'd really swap all that lovely Miami sunshine for the UK? Florida is one of my favourite places. I've only been there twice you know done the Disney thing for the kids but both times we spent a while on the Gulf Coast. The storms we had there were fantastic, one minute your lying in the sun the next your'e diving for cover and five minutes later you wouldn't know it had rained ..amazing.I think we've got film of them somewhere.

And Nick how can you say you hate British weather it's great so unpredictable, you can't plan to do a darn thing!!!

Both the main seasons (Summer and Winter, in my opinion) are just feeble extremes. Because we have such a temperate climate, we get a fairly hot summer and fairly cold winter. We get a fairly warm and fairly showery spring, and a fairly rainy and fairly cold Autumn. It's just boring...and dosn't suit me as i said above....

Nick

Wow, a topic about weather, just what I needed. I'm in St. Louis, Missouri, and today is supposed to be the hottest day of the year, around 105, though it'd feel like 120 because it's really humid.

Yesterday evening was incredible though. It was sunny around 6:30 p.m., but once it got 7:00, it was as though the sky had changed in one second. There was a whole bunch of gusty wind that was, I think, about 90 mph, and we had newspapers flying all over our yard. We lost our power too, and it seemed like everyone in the city had. Our little county is one of the luckiest, since we're one of the few with the power, and air conditioning, so I have no idea how hot it actually is outside...but I feel sorry for the people who have to bear the heat.


That might suck, because I love when it's warm during winter, and it's sunny, but you still see little patches of snow on the grass...it just gets me all hyped up for summer.

i like in Palmdale, California, US. and it is sooo hot here. its the desert. it reaches around 100 degrees in the summer and it gets really cold in the winter. its odd weather. sometimes there are thunderstorms here. its really humid here during the summer. it snowed once here in, and that was like 5 or 6 years ago.

since we are near the mountains, it snows there, and we went there this winter.

i live near the Californian coast, so it's pretty cool here compared to the rest of the world.... right now it's 75 F, but before it was probably a lot higher.... it says tomorrow's high is going to be 90 F, and that's really high compared to what i'm used to... i stay indoors almost everday, so it doesn't really matter for me if it's hot or not 'cause i don't feel it inside

i rather have cold weather than hot weather though... i love when it rains! it never snows here, but I wish it did... I would rather have it windy and cold than burning hot

It's been incredibly hot here in Chicago. Monday it got above 90, but the humidity made it feel like it was 105. It's been in the high 80s all this week. People (senior citizens) have already started dying here. I've just been sitting in front of the air conditioner for the past few days because I have a hard time tolerating hot weather. It's so annoying! I can't wait till Fall comes. Not too hot, and not too cold.

So what your'e saying is it's fairly boring! Sorry Nick I had to giggle, but you must admit of all the topics I could of started, talking about the weather is a pretty dia subject that everyone (well a few) seems to have a comment on. I know what you mean though. I've checked the long range forecast from 29th when I go away and it's rubbish!

By the way, what's it like in London at the moment? We've cooled down a little in the west.

During a hot spell, urban areas are always a few degrees hotter than rural areas. I saw an infrared chart yesterday from a satellite image and it showed the London area as a big red blob. It can't be very pleasant.

Jack Vance wrote a science fiction story in which the inhabitants of a very hot planet lived under large fountains of water curtaining themselves off from the heat. Such a water curtain would be wonderful right now, because here in The Netherlands we're currently having a "heat wave" (temperatures consistently above 26 Celsius (79 Fahrenheit) and three of the past five days hotter than 30C (86F). The absence of rain is also very unusual.

My elderly friend has been debilitated by this heat. Heat waves are so unusual here that there aren't national rules for having air conditioning in nursing homes, but there is talk of changing that before any senior citizens are killed for want of protection. There have been other deaths -- there is an international walking event each year (four consecutive days of walking a set long distance) and it was cancelled yesterday because two walkers died from the heat. (see the official webpage of this event for more information).

It's frightening how extremes in weather can affect the elderly. A few years back I went to Malta on holiday. While we were on the plane the captain announced that the country had been experiencing some of the highest temperatures on record. We didn't realise how hot it was (we landed at night) until the next day. We wnt to the pool and the soles of our shoes were melting onto the ground. We subsequently found out that a lot of the Maltese elderly had been severley affected, there had been a high number of strokes, heart attacks and fatalities. The average daytime temperature was 45C.

gah! there has been blackouts here, and its now reaching over 100 degrees now. right now its 102, and its supossed to be 107 on sunday. there are also supossed to be thunderstorms on sunday. gawd, its a torture to go outside now a days. its soo humid. sometimes people are walking and now a days i dont see anyone outside. there are severe weather alerts everyday now. hate the weather.

wow, it sounds like some of you have it bad. here right now, its 80 degrees, not too hot compared to other places. oh in Las Vegas, i went there this summer, it was about 99 degrees F. but last summer i went there, it was 120 degrees F, and i was burning and it was very very very dry and i got headaches from the heat. very hot. its good i only stayed there for 2 days. im glad its just plain and warm here, not much rain and not too dry.

Yes, I would swap Miami for the UK. Don't get me wrong, I love the Miami sunshine. But it gets annoying after a while, especially after 8 years. It's year-round. Sure, Miami is a great place for summer vacation. But that's all you get here. Sunshine. I want snow! I want freezing temperatures! You can't get that here in Miami. In the UK you actually experience ALL the seasons. That's not the case here in Miami. I'm not saying I hate Miami and the weather, I just prefer UK.

Yeah, well these past few weeks in the UK have been heat waves, they have been boiling hot. I prefer it warm, not scorching. And then I prefer the weather to be cold, icy, and heavily snowing in winter. There is nothing I love more than gone out and had a snowball fight or sledging and then come back and sitting by the fire, drying our clothes and drinking a nice big cup of hot chocolate. I love the weather being nice and showy. I am not a big fan of sun. Cremate me God, no thankyou. Nope.

I'll switch you! i live in scotland and every year whithout fail we get loads of snow, you can't get anywhere! It's so annoying...

But it's been hot recently (for Soctland) it was 82F the other day, the hottest that my city has had on record ever I nearly died it was so hot, so i hid inside and spent the day on the net. Tomorrow it's predicted to be 75F, which is pretty hot... i wonder if i can stay all day inside then too!

Annie, i was in London a few years ago during a heatwave, and no, it wasn't pleasent in fact it was horrible! I don't like the heat that much, i'm not used to it being as hot as it is now

The sea's still 40F though... nice and cold!

I know what you mean ET, loads of people die in heatwaves, they're horrid things, heatwaves that is, if you ask me.

I live in Indiana(in the US of course)and I hate the weather here. In the winter it snows just enough to cause a thin layer of ice and snow but not enough to really play in. In the summer, it is either too hot or too cold and will not rain for weeks and then rain every day for just as long. I liked it in Greece because it was so hot and dry.

Oh, and I've head that there have been 7 heat-related deaths in Indiana(or maybe the whole country or world or somethign)in the past week or so.

Ah yes Ygraine, snow means you can't get anywhere but that means no school We always get heaps of snow in Scotland- especially in Ballater where i love because it's so close to the hills.I love snow. It's great. We go sledging at the golf club and there is one hole we sledge on with a massive steep slope with a ditch at the bottom. It's great If you miss the bridge you end up in the ditch It's great fun.

It's dull today. The sun won't come out from behind the clouds It's meant to get hot again this week. Not too hot i hope. I hate it when it's scorching hot outside.

When it comes down to Hot or Cold, I prefer Cold. I have lived in Hot weather all my life, and I hate it. When it's cold, it snows. And when it snows a lot, there is no school! I wish I could experience that! That would be so fun!

All we have here is Hurricane Days, which you could possibly lose everything you own, and let me tell you that's not so much fun. Plus in the hot weather the humidity makes your hair go beyond controlable.

I guess no one is satisfied. We're all suffering from the heat one way or another.

You know what's crazy? Scientists talk about Global Warming, but others talk about the next Ice Age. So will we burn up or freeze in the future?

Who knows...did you see The Day after Tomorrow..almost believable eh?
I can understand that having to live with heat and humidity all year round can get you down and that you'd like a bit of the cold stuff know and again. Here the UK we have more what I call grey days than anything.No sun no blue sky no rain no snow..just drab damp and grey.But in between it does change and we have a good mix of everything I guess.

As i write this post is is pouring rain outside- it's like a monsoon! Today's weather has been very random. First of all it was sunny, then as we were walking to the shops this morning it started pouring rain and we got soaked Then it was brilliant sunshine again, then there was thunder. Then this afternoon it was back to being sunny and now as i said there is a monsoon outside.Apparently the heatwave is now over and it's meant to get cooler and fresher with lots of rain.

Nice, something to look forward to

Helloww! Well the weather just south of London, has been crazy this week! I was complaining that it was boring, but we have thunder and lightning the last few days, but every evening and morning it's be hot and calm! This is the strangest i've seen the weather for a long time, except when we had snow in April! Does any other Brit remember that???

Nick

Oh yes Nick! Snow in April..I remember it well, we'd had a really warm sunny day in the west the day before.

Have you had any of these wild thunderstorms that have flying around?

We keep getting forcasts for them..like today..but they haven't materialised. We had one quick shower at 7.30am and glorious sunshine for the rest of the day..28c!

I was lying in bed reading Philosophers Stone, and around 2 or 3 am i heard a huge boom. I thought we were being invaded! But it turned out to be collosal thunder. Bit of a relief...

So yes, big thunder storms....

I was but a wee nipper when we had snow in April, but we got to get out of lessons to roll around in it! Which was terrific fun

Nick

Actually the April snow that I remember was in 1988. I'd gone to work in a T'shirt! Were you actually even born in 1988 Nick? Yep I really am that old!

Did you see on the news today about the house (I think up north somewhere) that had it's roof practically blown off by lighteneing last night? It hit a little girl but her brother slept through it even though his bedroom cieling was on the floor!

No i was nay born! I guess there must have been two, well there was one down south, we all felt really silly having to wear mittens in August!

I wrote a poem about it: here

I love snow, such excitment and fun!

Nick

Yeah its really hot around here, I live in Canada and its averaging, a day!, 41 C, which alot where I live, dont know how much that is in Fahrenheit. I was in the Car waiting for my mom to get gas and it was 2 minutes and I was sweating.. Good thing my house is air conditioned or Id be six feet under.

I live in Brownsville,Texas and of course it's always hot here.Last Christmas it snowed for the first time in 100 years.Unbeleivable,I know.It's been like 97*F

Well i live in pennsylvania and it is still hot here but it will be cold soon and i love the coldness and the snow it is the best time of the year

Does the weather stop you doing anything. well when it snows i can't skateboard but when it is hot i can't have a snow ball fight so i don't know.

Do you like the rain? i love LOVE the rain and walking with my girlfriend in the rain is great because it is so nice you know

Do you worship the sun? i rather don't like the sun to be honest i am really pale well not really but i am not tan

Well I live in Western Australia, and I don't know what the weather is doing, it can't make its mind.

But one thing is certain, we have had no way near enough rain, there are crops failing and everything. We are in big trouble!!

Rain! We need more rain!!!

Well, it looks like its official. British summer is over. Typically, in comes August and the sun disappears and thats pretty much what has happened this year.

Stina...I'm sorry its so dry in Aus...have some our rain, it hasn't stopped all day. Its cold too 16 degrees C brrrrr chilly!! Bring back the heatwave all is forgiven.

I live in Montana and it gets pretty cold in the winter time. Every year it gets at least
-35* F. July is the hottest month...but it usually only gets up to about 90*F. It's pretty nice...i don't really like the heat

it's just like that in wyoming. It like never ever gets above 90 degrees here. I've never seen it go that far below though probably the coldest I've ever seen below 0 is like -10. I wish it was warmer though a lot of the time but o well.

okay, it was around 8 am, here in Palmdale, ca, and it was soo hottt!!!
its arounf 100 degrees (Farenhiet) everyday. just when the weather was getting cooler.
suck to live here.
we have to do p.e. out there!
also, we had to like march, outside for my 5th peroid rotc class. we also have p.t. on fridays for rotc. i think im going to melt.........

Crystal

I don't know about England, but here in
Colorado it's been in the 90's every day (Faregnheight)
Its usually really hot and dry here, which it still is.
That isn't very fun.

I thought I'd wake this topic up, as the season is changing and with it the weather..or is it?

The whole of August was pretty awful as far as summers go but since then we have had some really lovely warm sunny days. One day last week it was 28 C and today was 23 C! We have had some fantastic thunder storms as well though. The bangs and crashes woke me up early yeasterday morning, but by the time I got out of bed it was sunny! I think we have been getting the tail end of the hurricane that hit the Azores last week.

Ofcourse being September, we in the UK are now getting inundated with Crane Flies (Daddy Longlegs). I must throw about 20 out a night (some lose there legs in transit) and the spiders are out en masse...big hairy ones.

Well I'm going to make the most of this 'Indian Summer' and sit outside...it is forecast to rain tomorrow!

Hope the weather is grand wherever you may be!

When all else fails and you've nothing else to talk about (especially if your a Brit) why not talk about the weather.

It's been a while since anyone posted here (me) so I thought that in the light of the changing season and Londons Tornado that made a few people homeless, this topic could be woken up. Hence the double post!

What's the weather doing where you are?

Are you snowed in? Are you fed up with the constant wind and rain..I know I am?

Or perhaps you live down under and you're planning a Christmas day Bar-B on the beach. Lucky you! Although I still think of Christmas and snow in the same sentence not Christmas and Sand!!

Brrrrrrrr..It's so cold here in Bahrain.It's 12 C(I know it's less compared to England,but I am not used to this much).And it is raining heavily out here!!.This Island is so small that if an Tsunami occurs here,this island would sink.And it's raining so badly here!!.And I hate being wet.

Okay so we have a saying in Chicago. If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes, and it will change.

So November was balmy with weather in the 60's (F), and then it dropped to around 35 F for a week, then it snowed on Dec 1st 12 inches in some places, now it's 50F again, and all the snow has melted, and everything's got that dingy gray slushy look. The plants are so confused, I saw a couple of bulbs starting to come up in the back yard, and I know they are going to freeze their patutties off in January and February.

My favorite was back in the mid 90's when it was 70F on February 17th, and then a week later it snowed a half a foot.