Yes and the many Wildfires breaking out with people being evacuated in places .
Grass growth has completely stopped in many areas,not just the south and I was speaking to a farmer in the Scottish Borders and the Springs are all drying up which is very challenging with a lot of stock on open hill.
Cooler with rain is desperately needed in many areas although in the North of Scotland they have had a lot of rain.
Originally Posted by: bledur
All I want at the end of the day is to be able to actually appreciate any spell of hot, dry and sunny weather which we get but it's just not possible to do that when those conditions become the actual norm as has been the case in recent years.
In the past, I can remember some really good classic summers such as 1976 but summers like that used to be a rare exception back in the day, rather than the actual norm.
This is shown by the fact that if you go back to before they rebuilt the roof on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, there used to be an almost annual tradition of rain delays at Wimbledon, and I'll never forget that period when Sir Cliff Richard would often entertain the crowds on Centre Court whilst it was absolutely chucking it down with rain.
That is a tradition that I really miss and just to show much things have changed since then, you're now probably more likely to get blazing heat with temperatures in the upper 30s°C at Wimbledon, than you are to get any issues with rain.
Even here in Scotland, we haven't had the exceptionally high temperatures which have been experienced down south and I don't want to either because even without that, I am absolutely sick to the back teeth of it being predominately dry and sunny for most of the time. I'm not saying for one minute that I actually want it to be cool and wet but for me, the fact that the last couple of months were actually slightly duller than average here at least gave us a bit of a break from every month in spring and summer being sunnier than average all the time.
With this latest spell of weather though, I believe that normal service is being resumed once again with the return to the usual sunnier than average conditions which to be honest, has just become really boring now. In fact, it's even got to the point where I no longer have all that much interest in the weather in general because of that (that is already being shown by the fact that I no longer see any value in collecting the rainfall totals because I already know that these will be below average).
To to me, is a good reason why we desperately need just a spell of cooler and wetter weather, but an actual cooler and wetter than average month or season or better still a good run of cooler and wetter months or seasons. That won't be nice to experienced and because people are usually very short-sighted, a lot of people on here will probably moan quite a lot about that whilst it's happening but at the end of the day, that would at least help me to appreciate a decent spell of hot and sunny weather when we get it, rather than just taking that for granted as being just the actual norm for here.
At the same time, that would also at least make everything a bit more interesting again which would probably rekindle my general interest in the weather once again, thereby resulting in me actually wanting to record rainfall totals again and seeing an actual purpose for doing so.
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13 July 2026 09:24:13
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The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.