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Thursday 7 August 2025

What was the weather where you are, and did it matter?

Genuinely asking. For a lot of us it matters more than we admit. — asked by Noor

FionnualaDundalk, IE

Damp and dark, and I have a light box and I am not ashamed of it.

7

NadiaCairo, EG

Humid, and hydration has become a genuine daily project.

7

LulaBournemouth, UK

It mattered enormously. I did not go out and then I felt worse.

8

XanBerlin, DE

Grey. Just endlessly grey.

4

BettinaGraz, AT

Cold, bright, perfect walking weather, and I used it.

5

BertieHarrogate, UK

A frost, and my hands were warm, which is new.

3

TedIpswich, UK

Awful, and I stayed in and read, and that was the correct decision.

5

KezWigan, UK

Snow, and the delivery did not come, which is the rural version of this problem.

5

TorKeswick, UK

Perfect. Absolutely perfect. Went up the hill.

5

Rafe I have read your last few weeks and you are doing more than you think.

NixLeith, UK

Grey. Just endlessly grey.

8

NevGrimsby, UK

Forty-one degrees and my cool bag did not cope, which is a southern-hemisphere problem nobody writes about.

8

StefanZurich, CH

Awful, and I stayed in and read, and that was the correct decision.

4

BramSheffield, UK

It rained the whole way round the loop and I still went.

6

SorrelMachynlleth, UK

It has been forty degrees for a fortnight and I have adjusted everything about my week.

7

JunoBrighton, UK

Weather has been the making of this month.

6

MarenBremen, DE

Monsoon. Everything is damp including me.

5

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