Sorry folks, I have to put my hand up for this one, after many years of prevarication I finally quit my job to tackle the South West Coast Path. Started on 28th May, jokingly telling my (ex) work colleagues to prepare for the wettest June in living memory!
Finished on 4 July looking quite brown, but that must be wind and rust damage!
So apologies once again, I will give advance warning if I venture out again
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 It sucks doesent it, cant believe the summer was so short. About 20 days of april and that was it. Gutted
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 Aye, it's pretty rubbish isn't it?
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No lads, the good news is that I start back at work on the 16th, expect the warmest / dryest late July/ August in living memory!
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 Look four weeks ago tommorow I was over heating very badly doing the Welsh 3000s.
Its only been wet for 3 weeks and its getting better now. The way people talk you would think its been raining for 3 months not 3 weeks.
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it has been! Wet wet wet as far back as my memory reaches, and then just at the limit of my memory, that one scorcher when i was near dying on snowdon.
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I walked across Scotland in near perfect sunshine for two weeks back in late April, early May. That was good :)
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 Wasn't it the wettest June on record? Think I heard something like that on the weather forecast the other day.
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Jules,
yes, it is true, but I was out in it all day every day so it seems wetter subjectively if you get my drift?
And seriously, you regular outdoors people go with the flow, this was my special journey, and although it was a tad damp, I do not wish to be branded a soft southern jessie :-)
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 April and May were pretty dry, if I remember rightly - this is the UK, changeable, unpredictable weather is the norm, remember?
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It's all a bit weird really, considering the Met Office were saying it would be one of the hottest summers ever.
Mind you, didn't they say it would be a really cold winter too?
Good ol' Met Office! :)
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 It's only the 6th of July folks!
Edit, before some smart ass points out that it's actually the 7th! ;-)
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It's only the 6th of July folks!
Aye, and it's still shite weather! Roll on August
;)
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 May dry? When? Where?
Someone has short term memory loss.
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Honest, FGL. At least the beginning of May was in Scotland. I have the photos to prove it!
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I was in Scotland at that time too, in Knoydart in fact. Although on the whole the weather wasn't that bad, quite good in fact, it was never really dry and we had quite a lot of rain some days and some rain on all days but one. It was not quite as good at home according to my OH when I phoned home. I went back home to Wales on the 12th when it chucked it down for the next week followed by about four days of sunshine then more rain.
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I was in Knoydart from the 23rd April for 3 days on the Scotland walk. It absolutely peed down, but after that it was glorious sunshine all the way to Aberdeen. Proof here under the Mallaig to Aberdeen walkUnfortunately, Mad Jim had to stop in Braemar, but I carried on to Aberdeen and it was "scorchio!" all the way :)
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I heard that the weather was braw in the east but I have to say that I prefer things a little cooler and the rain in Knoydart was intermittent and on the whole light with sunshine in between, which suited me fine enough.
What really thrilled me though was experiencing four seasons within half an hour on top of Meall Buidhe, now that was really something but I really wished that I hadn't forgotten my gloves. Of course I had experienced the same thing, several times, many years ago but the memory of it dims as the years roll on so it almost felt like a novel experience. We can have similar experiences in the Beacons but on Scottish mountains you get it with knobs on.
I must say that you Scots are lucky beggars, these days at least.
Strange to relate, I used to wish I was Scots when I was a wean and when I said so to my mam she'd say, "you'd better eat your porridge then." and so I did thinking it drew me nearer to that deeply desired status. Honest, cross my heart and hope to die.
It was a dream come true when I was in the RN and I was drafted to Faslane in the late 60s. Not long after I arrived I'd climbed the Arrochar Alps and had no idea, until recently, when my son pointed it out to me, that I had actually scaled my first Munroes.
BTW my avatar is me looking out of the Druim Bothy doorway at the rain.
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 Aye, to paraphrase: "If you don't like the weather in Scotland, wait 15 minutes."
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Devjon - you have my sympathy.
At Christmas 1988 I left work to spend the next 3 months walking through the Scottish Highlands, in the naive expectation it'd be cold and snowy ...... turned out one of the mildest winters on record, as well as being very wet and windy.
As for this summer - we've been deceived by recent abnormally hot and dry summers into thinking that is the norm. The average max temp in July in England is around 20-22c and to get that average, one has to have spells when the temp is not 30c every day at some point!
I admit it has been a tad wetter than average though ;-)
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