People with conservatories will have two ways of enjoying the sunny weather at the start of summer. Firstly, they can be like anyone else and sit outdoors, enjoying the direct warmth of the sun, playing outdoor sports, gardening, or socialising.
Equally, they can sit in the conservatory and enjoy the warmth and brightness in there while perhaps being closer to a drink and further away from any outdoor nuisances like flies. If the windows have been tinted, this can also reduce the glare of the sun to more bearable levels when it is high in the sky, which applies more in this month than any other in the year.
These benefits have been particularly notable in the early part of June as the weather has been so hot and dry, although claims that it could be so dry that even Loch Ness might dry up and reveal where Nessie is hiding are a tad fanciful (it is more than 800 ft deep, after all).
However, as is so often the case with hot dry spells in a British summer, the humidity builds up and before long the thunderstorms are on the way.
So it has proved once again, with much of the country being affected first by weather so humid you could cut the air with a knife and fork and then major electric storms, with thunder and lightning followed by heavy rain and even hail.
In such circumstances, having a conservatory can offer a sense of flexibility that others don’t have. You can dash inside when the rain is coming, still enjoying the warmth while also enjoying the primeval spectacle of flashes of lightning, booms of thunder and the rain bouncing off the glass, while enjoying the dry and warm interior beneath.
Although the forecast is for the weather to soon dry out again, albeit not quite so hot for a while, the recent weather has been a reminder of just how capricious the weather can be in Britain.
Indeed, the time when this may be most relevant is when you are entertaining guests. A garden party or BBQ can be great fun when the weather behaves, but a damp squib when it doesn’t.
However, with a conservatory, you can bring people under cover without it feeling like a house party in your living room (plus the inevitable ‘kitchen crowd’) of the type that might as well be taking place at Christmas or New Year.
Instead, you and your guests can still enjoy that natural heat, and be ready to head outside again if the rain turns out to be just a quick shower.
There has been much talk about climate change in recent years, but while some talk of Britain getting drier and others of it getting wetter (or maybe different things in various regions), the reality may be that it just gets more extreme, with the hottest days being hotter and the wetter ones seeing more rain.
Whatever the future for the climate, Britain is already variable enough. That is why the summer flexibility provided by conservatories has always made them so suitable for the UK. They will remain so for a long time to come.