worth noting that we had a week away on Skye in mid July and had a pretty
decent week...one wet day but it was.always comfortably warm (but not too
hot for enjoying walking) and at least three days were quite sunny
too........I suspect we chose a good week


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I think it depends very much which part of the UK you live in. The
further NW you live, the grimmer the summer has been. One of my friends
went for a 14 day holiday in Skye earlier this year and every single day
was a total washout. While rain is not exactly rare round that part of
the world, there are normally at least some days of sunshine and showers
amongst the wet days.

Down here in the "Deep South" the rain seems to have been concentrated in
heavy downpours. Most of our cricket matches have been spared, and a fair
proportion of those abandoned were due to wet ground conditions from
previous rain rather than bad weather at the time.

But it has hardly been a "good" summer. We have had much worse, but the
best of the weather was over the Easter weekend (!) and most of the summer
itself has been, in a word, "changeable". The only thing to be said for
it is that every Summer month has had at least one day over 25C, which has
not always been the case in past summers.

But like someone else on this thread, I have actually found conditions
quite pleasant for my favoured outdoor activity. I normally field in a
"run saving" position where you are either moving to field the ball if hit
towards you or moving to "back up" a throw if hit the other side. This
can get a bit wearing in 30C heat, while in a summer like the one just
about gone you can "give it your all".

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