English Weather.

[MWB]

Is English weather as bad as all that?

[B00]

As bad as all what?

[MWB]

I KNEW I'd be asked that!
As bad as people portray it, ie: in books, TV, tourists & even the English.

[squarebear]

English people complain constatntly about the weather. It's too hot, too cold, too wet, too snowy and so on.....

Just one of the traits of the English. The weather here is mostly cool and often raining which is better than flash floods, droughts and hurricanes but still we moan.....

[daniela31]

Maybe this should have been posted in the weather section, towards the bottom of the list?

The English weather is 'temperate', which means not extreme.
It is not predictable, like in some countries, they know what the weather is going to be like for most of the year, and have seasons for hurricanes, or monsoons, but they know when it's going to happen.

I don't think we have too bad a time of it here, do you?

:-)

[fredpuli47]

We haven't the advantage of predictability; it may rain on any day and in any season.Tourists e.g. Americans come from places where the weather is consistent from day to day, so think that our having several consecutive rainy days in Summer must mean that it rains all the time.In fact, Nice, in the South of France, has a higher annual rainfall than London.The difference is that Nice gets torrential rain, particularly in late Autumn, but its Summer months are dry and sunny.
We get no long cold winters and no long hot summers: our minimum temperatures,in particular, bear no comparison to those of, say, New York.And we never get a 'white Christmas'!

[catcuddler]

its worse.cold from oct til early april and we get about 2-3 weeks of summer max :(

[Jugglering]

Is English weather different to Welsh weather or Scottish weather or even NornIrish weather then ? I know these different countries are actually in different places but I'd not realised that they had very different weather as well.... crikey. there is only a thin line (aka Hadrian's Wall) between the English weather and the Scottyland stuff... and as for the Welsh weather... well, Offa's Dyke should sort that one out !

[Lonnie]

British/English weather, I love it, every day is a Weather adventure.
This Island of ours gets lashed by about six different Weather fronts, which is why its so unpredicatable, and as I said, I love it, sure, it can be an inconveniance at times, but thats all part and parcel of living here.

[scaniavabis]

where else in the world can you have a dozen different weather patterns in one day. I would hate to live anywhere else! We don't get any extremes which is what happens when your weather is predictable