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Roger Parsons
13 May 2023 18:43:41

There's certainly no moans from me today. An absolutely beautiful late spring day here with cloudless skies. Hopefully there's a lot more to come over the coming months!

Originally Posted by: Bolty 

It's been bloody horrible here in Lincolnshire - like a dull autumn.
RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
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Chunky Pea
13 May 2023 18:52:47

It's been bloody horrible here in Lincolnshire - like a dull autumn.

Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons 


Everything is reversed. Warm and sunny in the west of Ireland the last few days with high teen temps  Only now clouding over as a crappy weak front approaches.
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idj20
13 May 2023 19:34:17

Yes some area of grass are 1m and some as low 50cm. I will use a trimmer to cut down once SSW gone for good.

Originally Posted by: Jiries 



Blimey, my OCD go into overdrive when my lawn is about to reach 10 cm but that may be the former council park keeper in me. But 1 metre? I'd get lost and need a team of Sherpas to find my way out again.
Folkestone Harbour. 
Jiries
13 May 2023 21:24:11

Blimey, my OCD go into overdrive when my lawn is about to reach 10 cm but that may be the former council park keeper in me. But 1 metre? I'd get lost and need a team of Sherpas to find my way out again.

Originally Posted by: idj20 



I moved in this house last year and the garden and soil type are different from what I used to live, it dries quickly but when it rain it get serious growth, there was former trees here and bushes before I moved as it been cut but bumpy land so cannot use a mower.  I plan to landscape it after putting conservatory and large patio.  Then will laid new lawn and get cut as normal.  Some grasses in bunches reach 1m as it higher than the 3ft fence on some areas.

In NW site I seen the most ever moaning post pages that you normally see this during snowing events.  It show everyone now really stressed from this Spring which had been destroyed completely by SSW.

Sun came out very late I notice the clouds no longer have typical clearance of 10am to 11am when I used to live in the SE which is more nearer to the east then Birmingham.  I assumed Birmingham get cleared around 9-10am follow by London 10-11am, never later than that  But now seem to clear 6pm or later time.
sunny coast
14 May 2023 05:23:25
Cloud cleared by 7 am here yesterday  eastbourne  best day of an awful Spring 
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14 May 2023 08:21:53

Cloud cleared by 7 am here yesterday  eastbourne  best day of an awful Spring 

Originally Posted by: sunny coast 



I suppose it was but I believe it was sunnier in the west than where you are. So 20.5C made it the best spring day so far here.
Yes I can understand why people like my sister think it's 'baking hot' at this temperature but... 
Nick
Vale of the Great Dairies
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft
Retron
14 May 2023 08:54:01
Just been out for a walk around the garden... plenty of cracks now to be seen in any patches of bare earth. We need rain, but there's not much sign of any at the moment.

A mere 12mm this month, just under half of what we would expect so far, most of which fell in short, sharp bursts.



 
Leysdown, north Kent
richardabdn
14 May 2023 12:56:55
Yesterday was one of the few good days this spring and woke up to sunshine today for the first time in an eternity and also the warmest temperature so far, albeit a less than impressive 17.5C.

However it wasn't long before it degenerated into another Sunday of pure hell. Now wet, sunless and down to 13.6C. It's beyond belief. Rain always broke up as it reached the NE. Now it intensifies and sticks over the region giving us the worst weather in the country as as been the case throughout this soul destroying atrocity of a May 🤮

Had a great day yesterday up at Loch Muick where it was 21C under glorious sunshine. A break from the living hell which has resumed once again. It's become impossible to get any sort of warm sunny day. The warmest temperatures used to be associated with dry, sunny days. Now they're reached briefly with limited sunshine before the rest of the day turns into a washout with markedly lower temperatures. It was exactly the same on Tuesday. Odds on this will be the third spring in succession to fail to hit 20C when it used to be hit in the majority of springs. Then come autumn, the wait for the first frost will be just as excruciating 😩

Yet to see a single good weekend the whole putrid season. Even 1983 managed a good one with 10 hours on the 14th May and 9 hours on the 15th. Nothing in this grotesque season even comes close to that. The sun average so far has been 2.79 hours. That's almost 4 standard deviations below the average for 2007-22 (5.72 hours with stdev 0.79 hrs and a range from 4.24hrs to 6.73hrs). It's just off the scale 🤢

Every single Sunday has been 💩 

These are the Sunday sun hours this spring so far : 0.1, 2.3, 1.2, 6.4, 3.7, 0.0, 2.7, 0.2,0.0,0.0. Today managed 3 hours before the filth set in once again 🤮

Beyond ludicrous and completely intolerable. Just one has managed 4 hours sun and that was 26th March with a dire max of 5.5C. I wasn't even here. I was down in London where it pretty much rained the whole day with zero sunshine 🤢

A worse run than anything at any time of year and it keeps getting worse and worse. Sunshine for the first fotnight of May is lower than the sunniest week of January 2022 managed. Crap like nothing on earth we ever used to get 😲
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MRazzell
15 May 2023 07:01:06
Retron, its remarkable that you're only 60km NE of me as the crow flies and the weather appears to have been so different. We've had the wettest March/April period that I can remember. Its been much better this month but I still require wellies on the dog walks when I'd normally be in trainers by now. It just goes to show that even on a regional scale the weather can be so nuanced. 

 
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15 May 2023 09:16:34
For anyone moaning in the UK about the unpleasant spring, perhaps spare a thought for Icelanders. Spring is still on hold after a long and often frigid winter even for them.
Catch it while it's still snowing:
https://livefromiceland.is/webcams/thingvellir
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It won't last of course and eventually spring will come.
And why? This shows clearly the cold air still available.
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=61;45;2&l=temperature-2m
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Saint Snow
15 May 2023 10:53:43
It was bloody freezing at West Kirby (NW Wirral) yesterday afternoon with a strong wind. In the showers, the rain was coming in almost horizontally. 

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Retron
15 May 2023 11:00:25

Retron, its remarkable that you're only 60km NE of me as the crow flies and the weather appears to have been so different. We've had the wettest March/April period that I can remember. Its been much better this month but I still require wellies on the dog walks when I'd normally be in trainers by now. It just goes to show that even on a regional scale the weather can be so nuanced.
 

Originally Posted by: MRazzell 


It's the North Downs - they act as a squeegee with rain from the west, and they provide a chunk of warming with winds from the west to the south (it's why Brogdale took the record 20 years ago).

I was quite excited at seeing some rain around today, but like magic the showers parted over my end of the island. Not even enough to tip the gauge. Not much chance of rain for the foreseeable future either.
Leysdown, north Kent
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Tim A
15 May 2023 11:33:22

It was bloody freezing at West Kirby (NW Wirral) yesterday afternoon with a strong wind. In the showers, the rain was coming in almost horizontally. 

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 



Was on the other coast yesterday at Bridlington and it was a lovely day.  16-18c away from the exposed shoreline (wind was southerly) , turned a bit colder later as the wind veered SE and came off the North Sea. 
Even took a dip but at 9.5c water temp was a tad chilly
Tim
NW Leeds
187m asl

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Saint Snow
15 May 2023 12:24:43

Was on the other coast yesterday at Bridlington and it was a lovely day.  16-18c away from the exposed shoreline (wind was southerly) , turned a bit colder later as the wind veered SE and came off the North Sea. 
Even took a dip but at 9.5c water temp was a tad chilly

Originally Posted by: Tim A 



Was a NW'ly there. It'd been nice round here in the morning (and Saturday was the best day of the year so far) but that front was a stinker.

Hence why I love easterlies!

 

Martin
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Tim A
15 May 2023 12:36:31

Was a NW'ly there. It'd been nice round here in the morning (and Saturday was the best day of the year so far) but that front was a stinker.

Hence why I love easterlies!

 

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 


Being in the middle (both coasts are a pain to get to) I choose  based on the forecast.   Warmest beach days I have had have been on the Irish sea coast, Say St Annes. with a lovely East or SE breeze.  Always seems to be  more of a sea breeze on supposed  hot days in the East, unless there are quite strong SW winds, usually just before a breakdown. 
Tim
NW Leeds
187m asl

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richardabdn
18 May 2023 18:07:30
Another revolting week here as the 'best'month of the year continues to produce more repellent conditions than the worst would dare to. It's just relentless.

Today is the 9th completely sunless day out of 22. More than a third of days. It's just unreal.  It's gone from cold gloom to mild clag like nothing on earth we ever used to get in spring. Hardly any days in May should have zero sunshine never mind one with a max of 16.6C as was reached today 🙄

Four days over 16C and they have produced a total of 9.2 hours sun between them. Just what the hell is going on? Only two nights have dropped below 5C all month because of this relentless vile weather. It's like a bad 21st Century October. Endless cloud, suppressed temperatures. Nothing resembling spring at all. Even a bad spring month should be way better than this 🤬

56% of average sunshine and even to get to the woeful level achieved by May 2021 - the dullest of the past 30 years - will require 5.4 hours average for the rest of the month. Only about 85% of average so shouldn't be too difficult but when only five days so far have been that sunny it seems an impossible task🤮

5/18 days managing to achieve a daily sun total that only three Mays this century have failed to better as a monthly average. It's beyond ludicrous. Yet another 21st Century summer half month that begs the question: How the hell can this be happening? 🤢🤢🤢
 
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tierradelfuego
18 May 2023 19:54:32



Today is the 9th completely sunless day out of 22. More than a third of days. It's just unreal.  
 

Originally Posted by: richardabdn 



Just trying to help you out Richard, I think it would be far better to say almost half as opposed to more than a third... of the days...😎
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Bolty
19 May 2023 16:43:04
Turning into quite a decent May in this neck of the woods - certainly better than last year. A pleasantly fine week this week and the same looks to be the case for next week too.
Scott
Blackrod, Lancashire (4 miles south of Chorley) at 156m asl.
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idj20
19 May 2023 17:09:37

Turning into quite a decent May in this neck of the woods - certainly better than last year. A pleasantly fine week this week and the same looks to be the case for next week too.

Originally Posted by: Bolty 



 Been a decent enough day today at my end as well, but it’d be better still if there isn’t that semi permanent nagging NE breeze. Hardly a sniff of that in the winter months and yet almost constant between March and June! Still, rather be cool & fresh than hot & sticky.
Folkestone Harbour. 
richardabdn
20 May 2023 09:07:37
Yet another godawful soul destyroying wretched abomination of a weekend. It's just relentless. Something that is so absurd and far off the scale it just shouldn't be happening.

With an average of 5.7 hours sun and a standard deviation of 0.8, for spring weekend days, the probability of getting the 2.8 hours average recorded this year is infinitesimally small due to being 3.7 standard deviations below the mean. Just shoudn't be happening. Made all the more ridiculous by the weekday sunshine being over 5 hours and the weekdays were actually sunnier than average in March and April 🤬

May used to be my favourite month of the year but now it's been ruined completely. An absolutely dreadful run since 2014 that just sinks further into the abyss. Two of the worst Mays ever in the space of three years plus the horrific final fortnight of May 2019. All worse than diabolical and on a par with the 2007-12 run of awful-without-precedent summers 🤮🤮

This miserable run of weekends was ludicrous a long time ago but on it goes. Weekend after weekend of utterly woeful grey 💩. It's got to the stage where it feels like it will never end. Never been so depressed in my entire life. I basically no longer have a life because everything I enjoy has been taken from me.

Weekend after weekend of soulless unusable grey filth, at what should be the best time of year, has sucked the life out of me completely and left me feeling lathargic and unable to do anything. I can't put into words how much I hate living in this appalling cesspit unfit for human habitation. All the quality of life of a penal colony 🤢

17 completely sunless days this spring. Only one season in the past 6 years has recorded as many - winter 2021/22. Six of those rancid days have been at the weekend. With yet another weekend day with a seemingly never ending feed of featureless overcast crud, looks like today will make number 7. The 6th for May when half of the past 16 Mays have had either zero or a single sunless day.

There is pretty much no way back for 2023 after the health-threatning horror show so far. It would need a summer like 1976/1995 something that no longer seems possible in the clag infested hell of the 21st Century 🤢
 
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2023 - The Year that's Constantly Worse than a Bad November
2024 - 2023 without the Good Bits
richardabdn
21 May 2023 08:10:33
Yet another revolting 🐕💩 Sunday. Lost count of how many crap Sundays that is in a row now but the last even vaguely acceptable one was 12th February 🤢

This has to one of the worst yet. Murk, rain, temperature stuck on the overnight low of 10.2C. Beyond vile 👿

Are we seriously going to get the third completely sunless weekend out of four? It just speaks volumes about low things have sunk that such a question would be asked at what is supposed to be the best time of year. I suspect it's as long ago as December 2002 when anything this bad has happened in the winter half and even then it hadn't gone on for months beforehand.

It's also telling that even spring 1983, the worst spring ever recorded, didn't manage a single sunless weekend never mind three. Indeed it's something that's so exceptionally rare that there had only been one completely sunless weekend during April or May in the entirety of the past 16 years which once again shows how far beyond the bounds of normality this car crash spring lies. What used to be my favourite season of a year reduced to a complete write-off.

Sunless April Weekend days since 2007:

01/04/2012
04/04/2015
06/04/2019
07/04/2019
27/04/2019
16/04/2022
24/04/2022
01/04/2023
09/04/2023
29/04/2023
30/04/2023

More than half of them in the past two years and the majority of the rest in 2019.

May is a similar stroy of abject horror:

13/05/2007
11/05/2008
16/05/2009
18/05/2013
25/05/2014
03/05/2015
18/05/2019
08/05/2021
06/05/2023
07/05/2023
20/05/2023

Almost half since 2019 and no other year except 2023 with more than one 😩

If in December, someone had predicted that this year would be so awful that the winter would only have four frosts after the first week of January, that February would be entirely frost-free without so much as a flake of snow and that this would be followed by a spring so bad that the weekends would barely average 2 1/2 hours sun per day and that the Sundays would be so grim that not a single one during April and May would even manage 4 hours sun, you'd have assumed they must be on drugs to come out with such absurd and blatently improbable nonsense yet that is exactly what has happened 🤯

The only way the past 4 1/2 months make any sense is if I were to wake up screaming in fear to find it's just been a horrific nightmare and it's still just 6th January 😱🤮👺
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2023 - The Year that's Constantly Worse than a Bad November
2024 - 2023 without the Good Bits
Saint Snow
21 May 2023 09:48:00
We seem to have sleepwalked into a really nice late spring spell.

Last week was largely fine; yesterday was a cracker and today going to be a repeat (albeit with some high cloud); next week looks great; then the BH weekend is shaping up to be beautiful. 

 

Martin
Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)
A TWO addict since 14/12/01
"How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics."
Aneurin Bevan
speckledjim
21 May 2023 10:07:11

We seem to have sleepwalked into a really nice late spring spell.

Last week was largely fine; yesterday was a cracker and today going to be a repeat (albeit with some high cloud); next week looks great; then the BH weekend is shaping up to be beautiful. 

 

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 


It's my idea of perfect weather, I can sit in the sun without getting hot and it's no problem pottering about gardening too
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doctormog
21 May 2023 10:14:22

It's my idea of perfect weather, I can sit in the sun without getting hot and it's no problem pottering about gardening too

Originally Posted by: speckledjim 



Swap?  
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Retron
21 May 2023 10:29:29

We seem to have sleepwalked into a really nice late spring spell.

Last week was largely fine; yesterday was a cracker and today going to be a repeat (albeit with some high cloud); next week looks great; then the BH weekend is shaping up to be beautiful.
 

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 


Yes, summer is working its way north, having arrived here a couple of weeks ago.

As I said back then, it's as if a swicth has been flicked: off goes the rain, on goes the sun. No rain in sight down here, which means this time next week we'll be in a drought.
Leysdown, north Kent

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