Yet another spectacularly awful week of unrelenting hideously unpleasant and uninteresting crap. The same dross day in day out regardless of synoptics. 7C, cloudy and windy outside. Might as well have got dark at 4pm because there is zero reason to want to be outdoors in this 💩

One solitary dry day since the 15th despite pressure of over 1030mb. No other year in my records, going back to 2006, has failed to record a five day dry spell by this point. This year we had a four day dry spell in both January and February but the Spring has been so breathtakingly bad that there has been no more than two consecutive dry days 😱

Only 2018 failed to record a five day dry spell across March and April but even that managed a four day spell. The way this year is going it will be the first in recorded history not to have a fully dry week. Be as well measuring dry spells in hours if it can't even stay dry with pressure over 1030mb 🤢

An anticylonic northerly at this time used to bring cold frosty nights with clear skies but tedious infill cloud during the day. Any wind would drop out at sunset. By no means good but light years ahead of the current diabolical cloudy, windy, drizzly crud which feels far worse and colder than the proper cold we no longer get 🤬

This has been utterly wretched season, without any redeeming qualities. Anticyclones did not bring wind and rain like this day after day no matter what position they were situated. The relentless wind is even worse than the rain. It just never lets up which is why we haven't had any air frost since 4th March. Totally without precedent to be in that situation even had it been a warm spring which it most certainly has not. 

Even horror springs like 1969 and 1983 did not see this sustained nasty rubbish. It's just relentless cloud/wind/rain with not a single calm, sunny day or calm clear night. It still looks like winter outside, with so many completely bare trees, and feels a hundred time worse with the same crap temperatures as late February but at least then it was sunny and dry 🙄🤮

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The past week or so has easily been the best of the spring so far (not that it has much contest, mind you). It's not as warm as I'd like at this stage in April, but I'm not really bothered as the main thing was shifting that endless, horrid wind and rain. Hopefully we're going back into a drier and more settled period now, but I won't hold my breath just yet.

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The often sunny but windy weather, and low dew points of the past couple of weeks has allowed for some significant drying off.

Water logged fields are now dryed & cracked mud patches, and the grass is covered in lush green grass & wildflowers such as daisies & dandelion.

I agree - The ground has firmed up and the landscape is looking really verdant.

On our first 'warm' weekend a couple of weeks back (13th April) the garden was buzzing with insect life including a great many butterflies. Since then its been really cold and i'm now concerned that the invertebrates have taken a bit of a hit after what looked like a promising start for them.

Its also been so chilly that i havn't bothered with sowing my tomatos this year and worry that i may have missed the boat.

The last two or three Aprils have been really poor down here in the South East. My glasses may be rose tinted but April always used to feel like such a pleasant month with the odd showers (including the odd bit of snow) but plenty of warmth and amenable weather in between. Not so now.

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I agree - The ground has firmed up and the landscape is looking really verdant.

On our first 'warm' weekend a couple of weeks back (13th April) the garden was buzzing with insect life including a great many butterflies. Since then its been really cold and i'm now concerned that the invertebrates have taken a bit of a hit after what looked like a promising start for them.

Its also been so chilly that i havn't bothered with sowing my tomatos this year and worry that i may have missed the boat.

The last two or three Aprils have been really poor down here in the South East. My glasses may be rose tinted but April always used to feel like such a pleasant month with the odd showers (including the odd bit of snow) but plenty of warmth and amenable weather in between. Not so now.

Cold in April are normal for few days but having prolonged overcast and severe cold days for weeks is not normal.   Northerlies in April used to give full sunshine as in Jan did but this time too much clouds with mild nights but raw cold days.   I think i will see only warm to hot weather for 2024 when I go to Philppines,  Yesterday severe cold and cloudy weather was thwarted as my conservatory which still warm up to keep in door temps at 19C instead of 15-16C.    UK nasty climate is now really going to end up like Faroes Island climate and it happening now. and losing valuable day ight hours by being stuck indoors all the time.

You would think that after such a vile first half of April the second half could only offer improvement but no it's been even worse 🤬

Absolutely disgusting all week again. Cold and unpleasant with rain every day 😴Just one dry day since the 15th and that was cold with under an hour of sun🤮 Highest temperature 12.2C and that was another vile day where it was 7C and raining most of the time. Just unreal. There hasn't been single decent or acceptable day the entire second half. Worse than any period from the wettest dark season in over 140 years 🤢

Now yet another horror weekend to endure. 7C and sunless. It's just utterly wretched. Cloud stuck over the region for no apparant reason other than it's the weekend. I used to go out a lot for day trips at this time of year now I can barely be bothered to get out of bed. Utterly soul destroying. Can't even imagine life in the Faeroe Islands being this poor and worthless 🤬

Last April had the worst weekend weather I've ever known with a repugnant daily average of 2.46 hours sun. The worst I've recorded by a country mile but it looks like this year could end up even lower. It is truly staggeringly awful. More grim than any words could describe. Whatever happens it is a certainty that the three worst Aprils in my records for weekend weather will be 2022, 2023, 2024. Three absolutely grotesque, truly repellent Aprils on the trot. Sickening, vile, write-off depressing horror three years in a row 🤢🤢🤢

 

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Well I feel a lot better. Mon to Fri this week has been mostly sunny in Edinburgh, starting mild but getting colder each day. This weekend I'm in Newcastle and both yesterday and today, so far, the sun has shone strongly with deep blue sky, quite cold though. Apparently Scarborough has had 7-9 C maximums for 9 days!
Looks like a washout to come tomorrow in Newcastle 🌧🌧

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At the risk of sounding like Richard from Aberdeen,this april/spring has been absolutly dire! Apart from 3 decent days temperature wise a fortnight ago this month has been soaking wet and stormy prior to this then very cold with persistant nort/north east winds. Its now the end of April and we still have winter temperatures with daytime maxes barley creeping into double digits. It was warmer around christmas and most of February!
I would like to know why almost every single April/May we get more northerly winds than the rest of the year put together??
Another year where winter goes on into May!!
Ffs when is it going to warm up.

At the risk of sounding like Richard from Aberdeen,this april/spring has been absolutly dire! Apart from 3 decent days temperature wise a fortnight ago this month has been soaking wet and stormy prior to this then very cold with persistant nort/north east winds. Its now the end of April and we still have winter temperatures with daytime maxes barley creeping into double digits. It was warmer around christmas and most of February!
I would like to know why almost every single April/May we get more northerly winds than the rest of the year put together??
Another year where winter goes on into May!!
Ffs when is it going to warm up.

That the question when it will warm up so having a conservatory is a must and took action to install one due to never ending phantom cold and wet weather outside.   Yesterday reached 26C despite outside very raw cold temps which give indoors temps to 20C, without that it would be 15-16C inside in late April.   We are left 7 weeks of useable daylight hours before drawing in again so another severe loss like last year.  

Last few days, the forecast for Sunday was morning light rain/showers giving way to dry & sunny, particularly decent to out north.

Plans made for a nip to the Lakes.

Today, the forecast has flipped and it'll be rainy/showery there until well into the afternoon.

It's a pretty typical scenario for this country, and feels especially so in recent years. Just makes planning with any certainty an absolute farce. And why I generally hate the weather in this country.

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It’s turning into a lovely sunny day here today and although on the cool side it was perfect weather for a nice walk along the beach.

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It’s turning into a lovely sunny day here today and although on the cool side it was perfect weather for a nice walk along the beach.

Hope Richard is happy with it now.  😀

Hope Richard is happy with it now.  😀

I will let you guess the answer to that one!  I have just cut the grass too and even sat out in the garden for a while.😎

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