We're partway through our second week of rain. Garden very soggy, people are talking longingly of other countries, and I'm wearing lots of woollies. Temperatures were very low (not by Canadian standards of course),  and the slight improvement is welcome. Almost reached halfway through the first month of winter.

I'm on holiday in Cornwall at the moment and it's wall-to-wall rain in what is supposed to be the first month of summer.  

Posted by: @courtenay

I'm on holiday in Cornwall at the moment and it's wall-to-wall rain in what is supposed to be the first month of summer.

Uh-oh!  Sounds wet.  Approximately what part are you in?  My brother and I only got to spend one week there, instead of the requisite two, so we didn't get to visit every section we wanted to see.  However, it hardly rained at all in the four months we were abroad, so quite a different experience than yours.

We are grateful for a few days of cooler weather--about 25C and the possibility of rain, as we head into full summer.

@aileth It was actually mostly raining over Dartmoor, in Devon — I was staying in a hostel there overnight (just to break the long drive down from Cheshire). Not long after I crossed the border into Cornwall, the rain eased and was gone by the early afternoon. I'm staying in Liskeard, but will be travelling around seeing favourite places — I come to Cornwall fairly often, as it's my favourite part of Britain (if only it wasn't so far away from where I live and work!). 

After nearly two weeks of rain there's sunshine here this morning! I have done two loads of washing, towels and bedding, and they are pegged on the washing line in the sun! 
The garden is still soggy looking, and I don't feel keen to do the overdue weeding, but I do see a bit of progress in my green vegetables. 

Posted by: @aileth

Fortunately, their house is on higher ground, so above the worst of it. Their own private Ararat, you might say.

In spite of the seriousness of the area's situation, I had a good ol' chuckle at your "private Ararat" comment.  

How is the weather in your corners of the world, @waggawerewolf27 and @Pete? I hope not extreme, one way or the other (flooding or drought).

Posted by: @courtenay

And meanwhile in north-west England, after The Hottest and Driest Spring on Record (so we've been told), temperatures at the start of summer have barely got into the mid-teens (Celsius) and it's been raining most of the time

Ahhh, that is my type of summer. I only wish our temps were in the mid-teens Celsius now!

Posted by: @stargazer

Meanwhile, we've entered a wet pattern. ... At least the plants will be happy!

Indeed! I love when our gardens can be watered from the sky, versus from the hose. Although the latter is necessary during a long, dry spell. Thankfully our well is deep.

Posted by: @coracle

and they are pegged on the washing line in the sun

I, too, love hanging a long line of laundered clothes up for the air to naturally dry them. I rarely (if ever) use my dryer in the non-wintry months. The clothes smell so-o-o good after being freshly dried outside. 

Overall, we have had a comfortably cool-ish—and sometimes rainy—spring time. Grateful for that, as some years, both later May and especially June have had some ugly, humid days. But not this year, hurrah! At least the cool weather has lasted until this weekend, when our first heat wave will hit with a vengeance. Sunday through Tuesday, in particular, will be around 33°  Celsius / 91.4F, with the humidex reaching 44C / 111F those three days. No thank you!   After that, temperatures return to more seasonal—warm, but not ugly-awful, and with a balance of good rain. 

I said we are having comfortable weather ... all but today, which is very hot and humid. But as I type now, the skies are darkening and thunderstorms have arrived. In fact, the thunder is that almost constant low-rolling type. Beautiful! I love thunderstorms! This will usher in three more comfortable days, until the weekend hits (summer arrives this Friday, later that evening).

I am just trying to make it through the rest of June and all of July, before I can begin to 'relax' a bit, for when August arrives, 'though there can be a few humid days, overall, our first hints of Autumn are to be felt, particularly during the latter half of that month, so bring on Autumn!  

@jo, it sounds like you will be getting our weekend weather. Near-record heat and high humidity are coming Saturday and Sunday. The low Saturday night may set a record for the highest low temperature for the date: 80F/27C. For comparison, the average high right now is 80F/27C, and it may not even get below that at night. Whew!

Cooler weather is on tap for next week.

Weather is like sports: a statistic for everything. It was pointed out today that our average high has reached that 80F/27C mark for the first time this summer and will continue to increase slightly as summer goes on. It will stay above that mark for 69 days, until August 24.

@jo  I am just trying to make it through the rest of June and all of July, before I can begin to 'relax' a bit, for when August arrives, 'though there can be a few humid days, overall, our first hints of Autumn are to be felt, particularly during the latter half of that month, so bring on Autumn!

Whereas in this part of the world, or at least in Western Sydney, we wake up at 6.00 am of a morning to 2 degrees Celsius, just above 0 degrees. 🥶 Too cold to get up if I don't have to. Too easy to snuggle up on a cold & frosty morning as long as I can get away with it, when I freeze the minute, I do get up for any reason. Frost on the grass even though we don't get snow. Though it will be fine weather with blue skies until next Tuesday, or so we are told. Saturday or Sunday will be the Winter Equinox here. The thought of hibernating like a bear sounds like a lovely idea. At least when it is hot and humid, rain should be around somewhere. 

Meanwhile in the UK, it's getting hot(tish)... temps are rising into the high 20s Celsius and may even reach 30 over the weekend. We are, of course, getting heatwave warnings and advice for how to protect vulnerable people (young children, the elderly, etc.) in "extreme" weather.

I was sharing this via WhatsApp chat with my family in Australia so we could all have a good laugh, and then my mum interjected that where they are (150 km south-east of Melbourne), they're "having freezing temperatures" with a "high of around 15 degrees and cold!" As I pointed out, that would be considered "quite mild" around here... I can laugh at both sides now.  

@courtenay   "high of around 15 degrees and cold!"

Well, 15 degrees Celsius is cold. And it isn't much different here, where I'm far to the north of your family's Bass Strait abode. Some of these weather systems are quite enormous. I still had an elderly relative who lived in Mackay in Queensland, some 35 years ago, who, when she realised that her grandmother came from Tasmania, and she thought she would go to live there. At Launceston. Where she froze, she said, and finally moved back north to Coff's Harbour. By that time, she'd already had pneumonia but managed to survive that. She couldn't adjust to the change of temperatures, though when we went to see her, the weather in Mackay, though it was January, was really mild and beautiful.

Posted by: @waggawerewolf27

Well, 15 degrees Celsius is cold.

Not in Britain, it's not.   Seriously, I remember one day last summer, while I was walking in the local park, overhearing a young woman in a sleeveless top telling someone on her phone: "It's [expletive] boiling." I immediately checked the weather on my own phone and it was 18 C.  

I'm from the south (US), and the weather here is very rarely so low as 15 C (59 F). That's just plain nice weather for us. 70 F is the norm - I'd feel very uncomfortable hosting that young lady for even a day anywhere near my hometown.

But I love Britain weather. My brother lives over there is a lovely girl he met (met over there) and he loves it too. Beautiful country.

@lamp-lighter   the weather here is very rarely so low as 15 C (59 F). That's just plain nice weather for us. 70 F is the norm

It does depend on latitude, north or south, of course. Aunt Elsie, as I still call her, was from Mackay in Queensland, which is north of the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5 south), which passes through Rockhampton, 283.77 km to the south. Whilst Texas is 31 degrees north, approximately. Sydney is 33.53 south. This morning at 6.30 am it was - 7 degrees Celsius at Lithgow, - 3 at Scone, & 3 in Western Sydney, Whilst Port Headland (also near the Tropic of Capricorn) in WA, has temperatures as low as 12 degrees, according to the weather chart for Australia. Even Alice Springs was uncommonly cold at 1 degree Celsius. 

Posted by: @waggawerewolf27

It does depend on latitude, north or south, of course.

Precisely. And that's the fun of it all. I really enjoy traveling northward for colder weather. I guess in Australia, you go southward for cooler weather? Funny, how odd that sounds to me.

Here in Kansas we've had a lot of lively storms rolling through lately. The grand finale was a 24 hour period a couple nights ago that started with a 101MPH wind gust and finished a little over a day later with about 5" of rain and a loss of electricity for a couple hours.

Now the switch has flipped and it's hot. Just like that. Actually not complaining about this at all because this entire area needs to dry out. Kansans (and probably neighboring states as well) need to harvest their wheat.