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Subject Topic: U-turn on "barbecue summer" Post Reply Post New Topic
29/7/2009 at 2:57pm
 Location: Cambs
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Apparently MET office have changed their mind about August - now saying keep a brolly handy!!

Well to be honest I didn't believe them anyway!17



29/7/2009 at 3:01pm
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No, I didn't believe them either. I'm not a great one for conspiracy theories but I did wonder if all the talk of a long dry hot summer was to stop us getting too depressed about the 'financial crisis' and maybe encourage us to holiday at home etc...

Clare


29/7/2009 at 3:14pm
 Location: dorset
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I have no faith at all in the weather forecast so went camping last weekend when it was forecast to be very showery.

Typically they got it right for a change and we brought a soaking wet tent home with us.
We put it up in the garden and went off to do some shopping when it was just about dry. By the time we got back it was soaked again but we did eventually get it dried in between showers.

I think the conspiracy theory might be right. It did buck me up thinking we were getting a long hot summer for a change.

Wendy

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29/7/2009 at 4:07pm
 Location: West Midlands
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Absolutely sick of wet feet !!

I'm still holding onto a small hope that we get some sun this year , but if we do whats the betting that after acouple of days people will be moaning about the heat !! (again)

The sunnier the better for me , even if it gets a little too warm you won't hear me complaining cos it never lasts long enough.17

If this year is yet another wash out then I think next years main hols will deffo be abroad .



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October 23rd....mmmm who knows ???


29/7/2009 at 4:41pm
 Location: dorset
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You won't hear me complaining if it gets really hot.

I'm another who's sick of wet feet.

Wendy

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29/7/2009 at 4:51pm
 Location: Near Petersfield Hants
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Just come back from a depressingly wet holiday in Cornwall, fed up. Seems to me the UK and Northern France are suffering constant showers and high winds while south of France downwards are on fire! What the dickens is going on??

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29/7/2009 at 4:54pm
 Location: Leics
 Outfit: Melinda folding caravan Picasso 2.0Hdi
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PAH stupid forecasters lol....I was all hoping for a nice hot summer....but yet again we're washed out. I think you hit the nail on the head saying the word was put around so people paid for a UK holiday.

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29/7/2009 at 4:57pm
 Location: Somewhere in a field camping.
 Outfit: Eldorado Cabanon Etna too many others
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I love a good conspiracy theory,


29/7/2009 at 4:59pm
 Location: Lancs.
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We did manage to keep dry the 1st week of July in Norfolk but been wet feet ever since.


29/7/2009 at 5:23pm
 Location: Devon
 Outfit: Vango TBS Equinox + Vango Orchy 500
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Last year was rubbish so we made sure of getting some sun in Southern France this year back in May. Feel totally vindicated now!

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29/7/2009 at 5:38pm
 Location: East Yorkshire
 Outfit: Pro active 10 person hyperdome love i
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They didn't fool us! We have all ready had two cloudless weeks in Crete and are certainly going abroad again in Sept. Roll on.

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29/7/2009 at 5:52pm
 Location: Lichfield Midlands
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Suspect it won't improve in the week or so before we go to Cornwall.

May go for some winter sun this year.

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29/7/2009 at 9:40pm
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 can feel it in my water...about the 10th to the 12th of August we're going to get some fine weather.  it won't be scorching...but then thats not always welcome either...there will be showers....but infrequent.  This will last until about the 23rd - ish. Don't ask me how.  But i'm going to come back to this thread later and just see.....


29/7/2009 at 10:15pm
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How everybody laughed when I said the "BBQ" summer was a way to influence us to spend the money in our own country instead of going abroad.  Believed it then and believe it now!  The news came at a time when the country was at a very low ebb.   Now we are severely p****d off!



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