weather griping

[ratcreature]

I really hope summer will get a bit drier as it goes on. However, I'd be happy if it stayed on the cool side, because anything above 25°C makes me miserable. Though actually according to a weather press notice I just read, it turns out the average June temperature has been almost two degrees above the long term average here, but I guess it didn't feel like it because it's been much wetter than usual (135l per sqm instead of 70l per sqm).

Anyway, I feel like indulging the time honored tradition of weather griping, so have a poll:

Poll #17550 summer weather griping

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27

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In which ways does your summer's weather suck thus far?

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it's too hot
10 (37.0%)

it's too cold
6 (22.2%)

it's too dry
7 (25.9%)

it's too rainy
10 (37.0%)

summer is failing in some other way
2 (7.4%)

summer weather here has been great actually
2 (7.4%)

it's not summer where I am
1 (3.7%)

Comments

[king_touchy]

Humidity, humidity, humidity. Argh.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, that sucks. Certainly part of why I loathe heat here so much, because when it is hot here it is always humid, never a dry heat.

Not so surprising considering that it is a maritime climate, and it used to be all different kinds of wetlands (a river delta, rainy enough that the right areas become fens even without streams running through and some bogs too) before humans wrecked the ecosystems to make it habitable for us with dikes and drainage, so only tiny, now protected remnants remain. But the weather will still feel swampy. (I mean, I kind of feel bad for all the birds and such, only not really, because I would not like living in some malaria infested swamp.)