hows your summer ???

[shaunyboy]

chu'wuti and i high jacked jonnyg's (sorry mate) hello to the forum to talk about the weather of all things.i just wanted to show you folks why we moan so much about the weather over here.we moved our clocks forward 1 hour at 2am sunday.this indicates the the start of the british summer,so monday was the first day of summer time.i have took a picture out of todays paper wednesday 31st march.bet you dont get summers like this folks.....!!!

http://i429.photobucket.com/albums/qq17/spilota01/diamond1/snow002.jpg
http://i429.photobucket.com/albums/qq17/spilota01/diamond1/snow004.jpg
http://i429.photobucket.com/albums/qq17/spilota01/diamond1/snow001.jpg

cheers shaun
p.s.chu'wuti you should send your mum these pic's,it might cheer her up as its only rain she'll be getting right now.

[Aaron_S]

For you mate, I'm going to enjoy a nice pint on a patio in 20 degree C weather.

[infernalis]

Yes but where else on the planet can you see this??....

http://www.colourlovers.com/uploads/2007/08/heather-atop-mountains1.jpg

[shaunyboy]

i'm unsure which part of scotland that is (guessing the west coast) but i bet the guy who took the picture was up there a long time waitng on sun like that,haha we do have some amazingly beautifull country side,its just too bl**dy cold to go see it most of the time.you soak up that sun aaron mate as you can see theres not much chance of me being able too...!!

[infernalis]

I just searched for "Scottish Highlands" on Google.

[bighog85]

I am from northwest Montana, about 60 miles from Canada. We get snow in August sometimes but I can drive an hour from my house and be in places at least as beautiful as that picture. Look at pictures of Glacier National Park, you can see it from my front porch. I actually hike religiously in a place that looks very similar to that. Very beautiful stuff, I am very thankful to live in a place like that.

[Will0W783]

Beautiful scenery, but man I dont' think I could take that kind of cold all year round.

[gonesnakee]

Less than an hour from my place in SW Calgary, Alberta to be in the Rocky Mtns.
Yes its true we can get freak snowstorms any month of the year but we also get many Chinooks in the winter & all & all our winters have been pretty frigging mild the last 10 years or so now, Mark

[siz]

I'm in Southern Ontario, Canada, and I have relatives throughout Scotland and England and they got more snow than us this year! This last winter was quite mild. I definitely prefer the heat to the cold but I don't mind Canadian winters too much...I just hang out in the dragon room ahahaha. Those heat lights work wonders. :p
We usually have very nice summers but the last couple years there has been a lot of rain. :(

[shaunyboy]

we've had a lot more rain than normal over the last ten years.i used to laugh when my old gran used to go on about how the summers werent as good as they used to be.i put it down to old folks tales.but our summers have gradually got worse and our winters got milder over the last 20years.we used to get a good 2 months of constant snow but the summers were a definite 2 months sun.the weather system seems to be all over the place these days.i dont know if its the much talked about global warming or just one of the many long cycles our planet and universe goes through.its worrying just what kind of planet our kids have inherited from our and previous generations.the human race has caused some amount of damage since the industrial revolution.which in the grand scheme of things was just a blink of an eye in the time line of our planet.
cheers shaun

[infernalis]

I saw a lot more evidence of what you are saying when I visited the UK.

Castles crumbling from the "acid rain" eating the limestone away, the port of Liverpool smelled like rotting bacon, stuff like that.

Our history here is much shorter, but we have managed to bugger up almost a whole continent in just over 200 years time.

In just my lifetime I have seen huge weather changes.

back in the 80's we used to have big snow storms, now we hardly get any snow.

[emseeKAY]

today was nice and it was 25 haha now its supposed to storm though, when most people think of canada they think snow and igloos but where i am in southern ontario, new york gets more snow than us lol