Official: 2008 was a shit summer

[danny la rouge]

Official: 2008 was a shit summer

Depends on how you define 'shit'.

Dull, soggy, windy. Poor fruit yield.

 

[Juice Terry]

Hayfever has been atrocious this year. Its september and my eyes still itch

 

[gentlegreen]

Hayfever has been atrocious this year. Its september and my eyes still itch

By all accounts it's magic mushroom spores.

 

[Juice Terry]

By all accounts it's magic mushroom spores.

Interesting Might have to go for an early morning stroll in Richmond Park.

 

[durruti02]

been cold and pissing down heavy all morning in north east london

and it seems it has been raining almost everyday for what two months???

 

[poster342002]

I remember the summer of 1998 being just as rainy as this. Odd that it's repeated itself on a 10-year cycle.

 

[sonny61]

been cold and pissing down heavy all morning in north east london

and it seems it has been raining almost everyday for what two months???

I recall news reports on the BBC last year, on how the South of England, are in the first stages of having a climate like Southern Europe, due to global warming.

Correct me if I am wrong, but has the Earth's temperature not risen since 1997?

Last year the Earth's temperature dropped by a fraction.

Have all those global warming protests been for nothing?

 

[Urbanblues]

Dull, soggy, windy. Poor fruit yield.

Official: 2008 was a shit summer

 

[rover07]

Summers not over yet though...still September, that counts as summer now.

 

[Geri]

It was lovely in Barcelona last week

We're going on Monday - it will be good to see the sun! Do you think I will need to take a coat?

 

[mk12]

Even if it rains, it'll be warm. Maybe take a light one, and a waterproof.

We had no rain (last Tuesday to Friday). It was very hot.

Looks ok for the next few days: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0042

 

[durruti02]

I recall news reports on the BBC last year, on how the South of England, are in the first stages of having a climate like Southern Europe, due to global warming.

Correct me if I am wrong, but has the Earth's temperature not risen since 1997?

Last year the Earth's temperature dropped by a fraction.

Have all those global warming protests been for nothing?

climate change not global warming is the issue ..

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Even if it rains, it'll be warm. Maybe take a light one, and a waterproof.

We had no rain (last Tuesday to Friday). It was very hot.

Looks ok for the next few days: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0042

I wouldn't believe that. For the last few days, and even this morning, it was heavy rain all week except for Wednesday

 

[Geri]

I wouldn't believe that. For the last few days, and even this morning, it was heavy rain all week except for Wednesday

Are you in Barcelona?

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Dull, soggy, windy. Poor fruit yield.

The hedge rows round here are laden with blackberries ripening nicely; also seem to be plenty of scrumpable apples about. Last weekend saw both apple and blackberry pie and crumble on the table.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[SpookyFrank]

Summers not over yet though...still September, that counts as summer now.

And the weather's still unutterably foul

 

[Steve Booth]

A good year for growing stuff

The hedge rows round here are laden with blackberries ripening nicely; also seem to be plenty of scrumpable apples about. Last weekend saw both apple and blackberry pie and crumble on the table.

Here it seems to have been a really good year for flowers in the garden and the hedges are thick with vegetation. The earlier part of the summer was fine, mind you, August has been very rainy and cold, dull and dark. Autumnal really.

 

[Badgers]

Was dry but grim today walking to work.

 

[Meltingpot]

Yeah, down in Cornwall you could pretty much count the days with maxima over 20^ C (68^ F) on the fingers of one hand.

 

[danny la rouge]

The hedge rows round here are laden with blackberries ripening nicely; also seem to be plenty of scrumpable apples about. Last weekend saw both apple and blackberry pie and crumble on the table.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

Yes, soft fruit is doing well. But our apples haven't ripened properly thanks to lack of sun, and taste more like cookers (well, not quite) than eaters.