South of England

Seanachai

Does anybody here come from the South of England or maybe lived there for a while?, I've heard that the climate is marginally better there than here. That it's almost like a French climate.

odyssey06

It has a French climate except it's not the French climate you are thinking of e.g. Provence, wine and olive oil country and sun sun sun.
It's Normandy and Brittany, cows and cider and cream.

You want the Isles of Scilly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isles_of_Scilly

Thelonious Monk

Seanachai wrote: »

Does anybody here come from the South of England or maybe lived there for a while?, I've heard that the climate is marginally better there than here. That it's almost like a French climate.

Its way better. You get an actual summer with temps in the mid 20s and sunshine and the odd heatwave here and there. I am talking from experience spending a few summers in london. Would be way too hot for Irish people who seem to lose the will to live if its over 14c with the stifling humidity and feckin heat.

Guy:Incognito

Might be a french climate if all of france had the same climate.

gozunda

Seanachai wrote: »

Does anybody here come from the South of England or maybe lived there for a while?, I've heard that the climate is marginally better there than here. That it's almost like a French climate.

For sure. In Kent and any surrounding countries - they are 16th century wooden houses still in existence. Houses made of the same materials in Ireland, rotted and fell over into the bog many centuries ago.

They grow grain and grapes there without many of the issues which are experienced by growers here. Soft living by all accounts ...

Harry Palmr

Sure the distance between England and France is about 20 minutes drive so the Channel at that point is no hindrance to the heat overspill.

Alas the Channel/Celtic Sea/Irish Sea ****s us up!

Actually I do not want 40C thank you.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Scilly Isles have the best summers in Britain.

Spanish Eyes

Climate in South UK is probably a bit warmer than our own.

Why are you asking? Is it holidays or a relocation?

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Its way better. You get an actual summer with temps in the mid 20s and sunshine and the odd heatwave here and there. I am talking from experience spending a few summers in london. Would be way too hot for Irish people who seem to lose the will to live if its over 14c with the stifling humidity and feckin heat.

London is slightly different though innit bruv.

The buildings absorb heat and then radiate it. find summer nights in London can be stifling. Lived there for years as well, as a student, and often couldn't get a good night's sleep in summers.

Mad_maxx

Seanachai wrote: »

Does anybody here come from the South of England or maybe lived there for a while?, I've heard that the climate is marginally better there than here. That it's almost like a French climate.

The only part of the UK with a climate as disappointing as ours is Scotland, south of England is completely different

Seanachai

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Climate in South UK is probably a bit warmer than our own.

Why are you asking? Is it holidays or a relocation?

I'm seriously considering relocation, it's seems like a petty reason but I'm sick of the grey skies here, it's messing with my moods.

Seanachai

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

London is slightly different though innit bruv.

The buildings absorb heat and then radiate it. find summer nights in London can be stifling. Lived there for years as well, as a student, and often couldn't get a good night's sleep in summers.

I'm struggling with the nightime heat in Dublin, so London sounds like a no-no for sure

Samuel T. Cogley

Coming from a small city in the South East it can be very pleasant indeed, on a summer evening, sitting in a nice pub garden.

Bobblehats

The people in those conditions want to trade places with you. They come here and say that it’s perfect. Stop whining

Panthro

I live in Cornwall and it's super fackin sunny.
I have postcards on the walls with pictures of rain for when I'm homesick.
But yeah. Lovely spot. If we could only stop the English coming down for their holidays it'd be fantastic altogether.

Bobblehats

Land of extremes. From 30+ temperatures to flash floods and hailstones the size of pickled onions

biko

It's green and pleasant.

It is definitely warmer than here (I mean Dublin) but the south of England is a prettt large area. Where are you thinking of?

Capt'n Midnight

The Channel Islands would have a French climate

Purple Mountain

I spend a bit of time in Surrey and come Easter, there's a noticeable difference between there and here in terms of temperature.
It's less damp too.
The summer months have a lovely balmy warm air.

dd973

Boring people, boring accent, give me the Scousers and the Mancs any day of the week, more like us and better craic, in fact most of them were us pre 1847.

Purple Mountain

dd973 wrote: »

Boring people, boring accent, give me the Scousers and the Mancs any day of the week, more like us and better craic, in fact most of them were us pre 1847.

True but you have the grey skies and p*ssy drizzle up there, same as here.

SharpshooterTom

July/August average temps

Belfast - 19C
Dublin - 20C
London - 23C

Let's not exaggerate too much, it's warmer, but not significantly so.

budgie412

Its warm in the summer, chilly in the winter. What more do you want

complicit

The South East and East Anglia get brilliant weather, hardly any rain, long hot summers, balmy evenings as another poster said. It is one of the dryest places in Europe in terms of annual rainfall.
Hardly any clouds - lots of blue skies year round .

SharpshooterTom

complicit wrote: »

The South East and East Anglia get brilliant weather, hardly any rain, long hot summers, balmy evenings as another poster said. It is one of the dryest places in Europe in terms of annual rainfall.
Hardly any clouds - lots of blue skies year round .

Eh? It averages 23C, only 3C higher than Dublin does.

With the exception of a brief heatwave, the vast majority of the summer in London has been sh1te.

London Forecast:
4th August - 26C
5th August - 23C
6th August - 22C
7th August - 22C
8th August - 23C
9th August - 24C
10th August - 23C
11th August - 22C
12th August - 21C

The way some of you talk about it as if its Barbados.

Balanadan

Seanachai wrote: »

Does anybody here come from the South of England or maybe lived there for a while?, I've heard that the climate is marginally better there than here. That it's almost like a French climate.

The weather is much nicer there.

Balanadan

dd973 wrote: »

Boring people, boring accent, give me the Scousers and the Mancs any day of the week, more like us and better craic, in fact most of them were us pre 1847.

People from the South of England are the best craic m8.

klaaaz

complicit wrote: »

The South East and East Anglia get brilliant weather, hardly any rain, long hot summers, balmy evenings as another poster said. It is one of the dryest places in Europe in terms of annual rainfall.
Hardly any clouds - lots of blue skies year round .

It's overpopulated with frequent water shortages.

padd b1975

Panthro wrote: »

I live in Cornwall and it's super fackin sunny.
I have postcards on the walls with pictures of rain for when I'm homesick.
But yeah. Lovely spot. If we could only stop the English coming down for their holidays it'd be fantastic altogether.

Strange place Cornwall.

loalae

I moved to Kent in July 2014 and was surprised at how lovely the weather was. You can pretty much rely on it being warm from May to September with some hot days or heatwaves in June July and August. There's much less rain than Ireland all year and when it does rain it comes straight down and not that sideways stuff we get in Ireland.

Ireland is much better craic though and people are friendlier and more open to new people. I miss home!

fryup

essex girls

(the clue is in the name of the county)

Panthro

padd b1975 wrote: »

Strange place Cornwall.

How so?!

KaneToad

Mad_maxx wrote: »

The only part of the UK with a climate as disappointing as ours is Scotland, south of England is completely different

I love the Irish climate! Nothing disappointing about it, for me.

RasTa

Well Manchester is similar to Galway rain wise. This was taken on the 1st

fryup

padd b1975 wrote: »

Strange place Cornwall.

strange accent, and they see themselves as celts other than saxons...and they have their own language too

arccosh

Lived near Portsmouth for a few years...bit of a strange micro climate because the Isle of Wight blocked the majority of any bad rain or wind coming from the channel.

Much better weather than Ireland, one year I was in shorts and t-shirt until late October... last summer I was there it maxed out at 32 degrees... was like Spain for a good month. Weather is definitely a positive. Solent water temperature drops to about 10 degrees in the winter and spring, but was close to 20 one year during the summer, nothing better than an after work sea swim :-)

Pay is genereally better and there are some great jobs in the tech, building and recreational sectors

Lots of negatives though (for me anyway), SE UK is very affluent, and what goes with it, is snobbery... was always looked at as the paddy who wanted to tarmac your driveway (I'm a telecoms engineer btw :-D)... Brexit has sturred up a lot of indirect racism, I know people probably don't mean it, but if the shoe was on the other foot, there would be outrage. Don't get me wrong, I've met some lovely people down here, but the majority are up their own hole c*nts looking out for themselves (I'm the only one on my secton who isn't in a boat club, or has a private plane share). It's very colonial at times also, the empire is still very much seen as alive down this way.

It's been very hard to break into any social circles (maybe because I didn't come from an affluent background, so it's all new to me), but as mentioned above in another post, give me northerners any day for some craic...

For somewhere so close, it is soo different.

Don't expect a pub open past 11, after that you might find a slug and lettuce open until 1, other than that it's a nightclub or casino (might be your thing, it's not mine anymore, would much prefer a pub Ireland style, few drinks and a band until 1 or 2 am).

Think the M50 is bad, you haven't seen the M27 or M3, absolute disasters (southern part of the M25 and Guildford also worth a mention).

It's expensive to fly back to Ireland from regional airport, Exeter, Southampton (Bournemouth? I know flights to Dublin have stopped, but do they still fly to others?) can be quite pricey.... obviously Gatwick and Heathrow are much cheaper options, timed right.

Outside any sort of main town, you will need a car, trains etc... can't be relied on atm.

What's keeping me here you're probably asking... job is definitely the main one, I'm getting experience I'd have to wait about 10 years to get in Ireland, getting some ammount of money put into me to train, pension is ridiculous compared to what I used to have, and better pay also. Also a general better quality of life than back home (bar the social side). I get looked after over here.

Would love to move back to family and friends, but they've also been moving on with their lives, not saying I would go back and I wouldn't have friends, but it would be much different than before I left, and I don't know what would be worse, the lonely feeling I get here from time to time, or getting the same feeling when I'm back home.

It's a conflicting situation to be in, but if I went back home, I'd be taking 10 steps back.... also I don't think I could afford to rent tbh ... Still a lot of learning and growing to be done over here I think.

arccosh

Also, I see Cornwall mentioned a lot.... stunning place when the weather is right, but think of west of Ireland for weather similarities...

I've been in Cornwall in January when eveything is closed bar surf bars and B&B's... unless it's your thing, it can be a bit grim. Cornish are very closed to outsiders moving into the community also.

Also a bit of random info, it's mostly built on granite, so you're advised in some areas to keep your windows open year long to stop radon building up ... we had a site down there with a radon meter which went off the healthy level charts if the ventilation system wasn't on... :-D

Harry Palmr

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

July/August average temps

Belfast - 19C
Dublin - 20C
London - 23C

Let's not exaggerate too much, it's warmer, but not significantly so.

Someone else who doesn't understand what an average indicates apparently . The peaks are notably higher than either Dublin or Belfast. They've had two genuine health threatening hot spells so far this summer.

https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/city

wexandproud

arccosh wrote: »

Lived near Portsmouth for a few years...bit of a strange micro climate because the Isle of Wight blocked the majority of any bad rain or wind coming from the channel.

Much better weather than Ireland, one year I was in shorts and t-shirt until late October... last summer I was there it maxed out at 32 degrees... was like Spain for a good month. Weather is definitely a positive. Solent water temperature drops to about 10 degrees in the winter and spring, but was close to 20 one year during the summer, nothing better than an after work sea swim :-)

Pay is genereally better and there are some great jobs in the tech, building and recreational sectors

Lots of negatives though (for me anyway), SE UK is very affluent, and what goes with it, is snobbery... was always looked at as the paddy who wanted to tarmac your driveway (I'm a telecoms engineer btw :-D)... Brexit has sturred up a lot of indirect racism, I know people probably don't mean it, but if the shoe was on the other foot, there would be outrage. Don't get me wrong, I've met some lovely people down here, but the majority are up their own hole c*nts looking out for themselves (I'm the only one on my secton who isn't in a boat club, or has a private plane share). It's very colonial at times also, the empire is still very much seen as alive down this way.

It's been very hard to break into any social circles (maybe because I didn't come from an affluent background, so it's all new to me), but as mentioned above in another post, give me northerners any day for some craic...

For somewhere so close, it is soo different.

Don't expect a pub open past 11, after that you might find a slug and lettuce open until 1, other than that it's a nightclub or casino (might be your thing, it's not mine anymore, would much prefer a pub Ireland style, few drinks and a band until 1 or 2 am).

Think the M50 is bad, you haven't seen the M27 or M3, absolute disasters (southern part of the M25 and Guildford also worth a mention).

It's expensive to fly back to Ireland from regional airport, Exeter, Southampton (Bournemouth? I know flights to Dublin have stopped, but do they still fly to others?) can be quite pricey.... obviously Gatwick and Heathrow are much cheaper options, timed right.

Outside any sort of main town, you will need a car, trains etc... can't be relied on atm.

What's keeping me here you're probably asking... job is definitely the main one, I'm getting experience I'd have to wait about 10 years to get in Ireland, getting some ammount of money put into me to train, pension is ridiculous compared to what I used to have, and better pay also. Also a general better quality of life than back home (bar the social side). I get looked after over here.

Would love to move back to family and friends, but they've also been moving on with their lives, not saying I would go back and I wouldn't have friends, but it would be much different than before I left, and I don't know what would be worse, the lonely feeling I get here from time to time, or getting the same feeling when I'm back home.

It's a conflicting situation to be in, but if I went back home, I'd be taking 10 steps back.... also I don't think I could afford to rent tbh ... Still a lot of learning and growing to be done over here I think.

visit bournmouth 3 or 4 times a year for the last few years and used to fly with flybe to southampton but ryan air are flying direct to bournmouth again , 4 times a week i think , I used them a few weeks back , handy flight times too . Climate is better there than here , more sun , bit warmer , far less frost and rain .

Osborne

RasTa wrote: »

Well Manchester is similar to Galway rain wise. This was taken on the 1st

That's a great photo.

Harry Palmr

fryup wrote: »

strange accent, and they see themselves as celts other than saxons...and they have their own language too

They are Celts!

arccosh

wexandproud wrote: »

visit bournmouth 3 or 4 times a year for the last few years and used to fly with flybe to southampton but ryan air are flying direct to bournmouth again , 4 times a week i think , I used them a few weeks back , handy flight times too . Climate is better there than here , more sun , bit warmer , far less frost and rain .

cheers for the heads up !! looking a flights for £40 return.... definitely beats the usual 85-140 from Southampton

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

It does have better weather. Fo sho. I lived there one summer in the notorious stretch of bad summers in the UK and Ireland from 2007 to 2012. It was a below average summer and there was still a base level of warmth there that you just don’t get in Ireland. I got used to it being at least 22 degrees every day. It’s just balmier, even on cloudy days. I got athlete’s foot there for the first time in my life.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

London is slightly different though innit bruv.

The buildings absorb heat and then radiate it. find summer nights in London can be stifling. Lived there for years as well, as a student, and often couldn't get a good night's sleep in summers.

London is a little heat island but all of the south of England fares way better than us. I was a good distance south west of London.

my3cents

Seanachai wrote: »

I'm seriously considering relocation, it's seems like a petty reason but I'm sick of the grey skies here, it's messing with my moods.

Air quality is crap and the sky is always full of planes and helicopters, no matter where you are there is always noise and at night light pollution. Lived 10 years in Surrey.

purplepanda

There's a definite difference between the weather here in SE England & the west of Ireland where there is far too much rain for my liking! :rolleyes:

My aunt in law, originally from Banbury, Oxfordshire has lived in Wexford, about 10K from Waterford City for 15 years. She insists that the local weather is no different than Oxfordshire /Berkshire.

Recently at least Banbury is at around 3 degrees warmer than Waterford, as SE England is affected more by the recent European heatwave.

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branie2

It's a lovely area

my3cents

Forgot to mention that while the summers in the south of England are hotter many areas have much much coulder winters. It was a bit extreme but had minus 14 degrees centigrade one winter in Surry nr Guildford in a week that never went above minus 5 degrees centigrade.

Big difference between there and were my mother lives in South East Cornwall where the weather is warmer in the summer and about the same as it is here in the winter

el_gaucho

I lived in Kent for a few years and the climate was probably my favourite thing about the area. Warmer in summer but not too hot; colder in winter but drier so nicer (for me anyway). When people use the term sunny southeast in Ireland it makes no sense to me - for England it’s really true.

questionmark?

Spent many years living in the southwest and biggest difference was you knew you would get a summer. Its taken me a while to get used to the grey wet summers we get in Ireland.

SharpshooterTom

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Someone else who doesn't understand what an average indicates apparently . The peaks are notably higher than either Dublin or Belfast. They've had two genuine health threatening hot spells so far this summer.

https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/city

Well obviously if the average is higher so too are the peaks, no one is suggesting the weather isn't better, but it is somewhat marginal, compared to say most of France or Spain or Italy where the differences are significant.

I was born and raised in East Anglia for the first 14 years of my life and now live in NI so I think I have an understanding.

Highest temperatures here can creep above 30C, in the south of England it can go up to mid-late 30s on extreme days.