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England does have a pleasant climate, rather conducive to human life, both globally and especially among its peer latitude locations. Is your quip that it's dreary and rainy often?

>>gottor+(OP)
We Brits are grumpy at the moment from weeks of storms, snow, -10c to 5c temperatures, wind, rain, short days...

Nobody (edit: here) would call it 'pleasant' right now

Fingers crossed for a 35c-40c heat wave in summer ... what with our uninsulated houses without AC !

>>gottor+(OP)
Heck, it's broadly comparable to the PNW, but drier, and I consider PNW to be pretty pleasant all considered.

>>switch+a3
Here in Canada we just got through a cold snap that had temperatures down to almost -40c so... I would definitely call that pleasant :)

>>Steven+za
Ah hah I did mean "nobody here". I can't think of a single friend or family member who isn't depressed by the weather and ready for it to be over!

Of course, we shouldn't ever complain about anything as there are children dying in Africa :) ! /s

>>switch+a3
Embarrassingly so. When we start complaining how cold it is because it went below freezing in winter, we really must look pathetic to Canadians, Finns, Russians etc.

We also start having people saying things (and writing articles) about how the remember how much worse it was in 1965(?).

Warm summers just lead to more moaning that gives a different lot of countries a chance to laugh at us.

I suppose I should be grateful there are not many people who can go on about their memories of the summer of 1911.

>>graeme+0m
As always, remember to consider humidity when compararing locations - it can make both cold and hot weather feel much harsher. I'm more comfortable in 40c at low humidity than 25c at 90%. The UK experiences much more of the latter.

>>switch+3e
Yeah it's been freezing where I am too, around 15c during the day.

>>switch+3e
Sounds like you guys need to start doing the wim hof method :) you actually start to appreciate the cold

>>switch+a3
I think the point is that that’s fairly unusual, tho, whereas if you look at places on the same latitude, they’re normally far, far worse, every year.

>>tobz10+Sr
Right! I've met quite a few Australians who say how annoying and muggy 25c is in London compared to 25c in e.g. Melbourne