North / South - Weather conditions

[gallopingby]

Hearing about the weather at Blair and the number of events cancelled this weekend how big a difference is there in weather from north to south? Many places ‘down south’ seem to have experienced a hot and sunny summer whilst ‘up north’ say from Yorkshire upwards it seems to have rained for the last six months, so is it a south to north or east to west situation?
Where would you live to ensure a sunny summer and dry winter preferably gale free?

 

[Time for Tea]

I don’t think anyone has enjoyed the marvellous conditions you yearn for, but here in south Hampshire we have just had a bit of rain, drizzle and windy last 3 days, not storms. Suggest Hampshire, Sussex, and Kent! We haven’t had a hot sunny summer at all though. Very patchy.

 

[Time for Tea]

See you have got two threads on this, sorry don’t know how to move mine over!

 

[dottylottie]

last weekend i drove about 8 hours from the NW down to dover, to look at a trailer. particularly on the day we came home, stopping at service stations every hour or two, we noticed a massive change once we we’re definitely “back up north”! absolutely glorious when we were down there, i was warm in leggings and a vest top, but maybe 2/3 hours later cold in the same outfit with a hoodie

 

[Vodkagirly]

I live in Northumberland but my work PC shows Heathrow weather. It's a hell of a difference. I don't feel like we have had a summer here, nearly always a cold breeze. Mind you, Heathrow looks a bit too warm for horsey stuff.

 

[holeymoley]

Seems there certainly is. I’m in Scotland and could count on one hand the days we’ve had this Summer that have been over 20c with sunshine. Normally we can get a decent run of
Sun with 20-24c in the Summer. This year we seem to have gone from Spring to Autumn. Everything is sodden. It’s wet, windy and downright miserable for this time of year! My heating has been on. Oldie has been in 50g rug. Meanwhile the weather app says London is blistering in the mid twenties this week

 

[little_critter]

I’m in Somerset. I’d say we’ve had a very mediocre summer. Not excessively wet, but (unlike recent summers) only a few days of hot weather.
Which suits me, I don’t like it really hot.
This summer has been more like I remember summers being (in the 80s / 90s). Warm, a bit of rain most weeks.
I feel it’s only been hot hot in the last 8-10 years.

 

[TinseLeneHorse]

It's been a horrible wet summer in the west of Scotland. The only thing that seems to be thriving in the conditions is ragwort

 

[Northern Hare]

Having moved back down to Kent from Northumberland in the last few years, we've found there's a massive difference in the weather, even with the weather we've had this summer. I'm looking out at a frazzled and brown lawn here, whereas I think it would probably still be nice and green in Northumberland.

 

[tda]

They showed a rain % this year so far on BBC yesterday, South East have had 12% of average rain, the North west/Scotland have had 200%

 

[saddlesore]

West coast of Scotland- what can I say beyond lots of flooding and heating on in August

 

[MuddyMonster]

I'm Southern-er and it definitely doesn't feel like we've had much of summer, let alone a glorious summer!

We've had the odd few days/week of nice weather but we've had plenty of grey, rainy, blustery days too.

 

[irishdraft]

I'm in the south east and probably had about 6 weeks of no rain, apart from this weekend, and it's been reasonably warm. The ground had got really hard and grass is mainly brown & not particularly growing.

 

[santas_spotty_pony]

I notice the difference just in the county! We seem to have a different weather front just in our village let alone North or South but we are right in the middle of the country and have had a reasonable summer.

 

[Fieldlife]

It hasnt been particularly hot in my bit of SE, but there hasnt been much rain either. Grass slow growing now, and ground hard. The odd bit of heavy rain that runs off, but then nothing for weeks, and ground dry.

 

[JFTDWS]

I was just thinking yesterday that this has been one of the worst summers I can remember.

There was one week where I lived in shorts, and a few scattered days where I’ve taken my hoodie off, but it’s been turbulent, stormy, unusually cold (frequently below 20 degrees) and generally unsettled. It’s unusual for here (Suffolk).

Saturday was hideous - 2.5cm of rain in about twelve hours. We were all just grateful that the weekend before was mostly dry (albeit c20 degrees), as camping in Wales with ponies, trying to do silly medieval games and sword fight would’ve been miserable in the rain!

 

[Fieldlife]

I was just thinking yesterday that this has been one of the worst summers I can remember.

There was one week where I lived in shorts, and a few scattered days where I’ve taken my hoodie off, but it’s been turbulent, stormy, unusually cold (frequently below 20 degrees) and generally unsettled. It’s unusual for here (Suffolk).

Saturday was hideous - 2.5cm of rain in about twelve hours. We were all just grateful that the weekend before was mostly dry (albeit c20 degrees), as camping in Wales with ponies, trying to do silly medieval games and sword fight would’ve been miserable in the rain!

So do you have amazing grass growth? Given grows above 6-7 degrees, providing some rain.

 

[JFTDWS]

Yes. It’s been mad. I’ve just fenced my less good grass growing field that’s been rested since May. The grass is over my waist, and I’m not short…

 

[Surbie]

Also in the south east - our fields are green and flushing though the ground is now pretty concretey. It's been warm and mostly dry all summer, with enough rain to stop everything going brown. The 30C+ days were pretty yukky.

I'd like to find somewhere with a summer of max 22C and a steady breeze for my SI horse please. Currently looking at options in Scotland.

 

[sbloom]

I travel up and down the eastern half of England and both Scottish coasts, Ayr to Aberdeen to Essex, regularly. Everywhere had a cold wet spring, from July we've had a lot warmer/drier in East Anglia.

I have found, and hear many stories, that you can often even see a complete weather changes as you cross the border, especially A68!

I had a full water butt in July, still, which is unheard of, but it's mostly empty now and has been for 3-4 weeks

It's the gulf stream getting moved around, or often more stuck, as a result of climate change. It pulls rain and storms along its length, was stuck a bit lower in the spring and now stuck on Scotland rather than moving back and forth from a bit further north.

 

[mariew]

Yeah. I can count on both hands the amount of sunny days we have had in the northern parts of the south west. This year.

 

[maisie06]

I live as far south as you can get. It's been a mixed bag this summer but the humidity has been awful, as I get older it makes me more miserable, I hope one day to relocate to the north, I have actually shocked myself and enjoyed the recent cooler rainy spell.

 

[ecb89]

I’m in Essex. Summer was a bit crap until mid July and it’s been lovely since apart from last weekend which was cold and wet. Lovely weather is meant to continue into September as well