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The hell just goes on and on, intensifying with each disgusting month that passes.Absolutely rotten February. Putrid, soul destroying and horrific beyond belief even when viewed on it's own, never mind in the context of what's been endured for the past 17 months.So far 2024 just an intensification of the abject filth that wrote off 2023. Rainfall even worse, weekend curse even worse against any reasonable expectation.How the hell can this garbage be happening month after month? Endless rock bottom worthless demoralising crap. Today is the fourth consecutive sunless weekend day. The only weekend sun we've seen all repulsive month was 2.2 hours on Saturday 3rd 🤢After a completely frost-free horror February last year, this month has only brought three frosts. At the same time only one double digit max. As usual the extremes are squeezed at both ends as we end up with utterly rancid easterlies all the time delivering horrific mild nights, average day temperatures and pitiful diurnal ranges and needless to say endless grey skies and drizzly rain. VILE 😡A wet winter used to also mean a snowy winter as rotten wet easterlies alternated with cold snowy northerlies. Now we just end up with the easterlies and as a result only a woeful 9 days of lying snow. The depths have been greater than would normally be the case with such a low total but it's nowhere near good enough to begin to make this remotely tolerable.The 12-month rolling rainfall total just keeps on rising and rising and has now hit 1177mm - more than 400mm above average. February has been the 5th consecutive month to reach the full monthly average by the mid-point and it means there hasn't been a properly dry month (<90% of average) for a full year. Lowest monthly total in that time 43.6mm in May against an average of 46.9mm since 2006.A year without a dry month. Nearly three years since the last time there were two consecutive dry months. When will this purgatory end?
Looks like we're on track for a snowless winter here. Pretty standard El Níño winter. Some positives in low heating requirements, definitely no drought this year and this week has been really pleasant being out in, albeit the fields I walk over really get the heart pumping trying to wade through the mud and standing water.
I've been out in the sunshine doing some more gardening... and spotted a daisy in the lawn, fully open.I can't say I've seen one in mid-February before!