British Summer Time is the period of time between Britain’s wet spring like weather, and its dark wet autumn days. Usually this period of time consists of showery rain as opposed to the normal prolonged periods of rain. Each year millions of Britains are surpised and disappointed at how wet it is. Being summer, however, allows the water companies in the South of England to impose hose pipe bans and other such water saving measures claiming the previous year had been unusually dry and hoping no one will remember is was as wet as any other.
The time of year also means anyone who owns a convertible car must drive around with the roof down unless there’s anything more than a light drizzle, regardless of temperature.
Trivia
- British Summer Time starts when the first person in Britain looks up to the sky, sees a blue patch and says “Ooo, summer is here”.
- British Summer Time ends after the bank holiday in August, during which it’ll probably rain a bit more as a precursor to the approaching autumn.
- The longest period of dry weather ever recorded in Britain was in 1974 when it didn’t rain for 4 hours and 27 minutes.