It doesn't matter how vile it is during the week it always gets worse at the weekend
First year in my 13 years of records where the weekend weather was worse than weekday in every single month during the summer half of the year.
Weekend sunshine as a % of weekday:
Even September where there is usally more of a 'Weekday Curse' was a let down and it keeps on getting worse and worse. The worst ever year for the Weekend Curse
Saturday is just the absolute pits with these percentages compared to weekday average for each month since April:
53%, 78%, 94%, 56%, 86%, 76%
There basically hasn't been a really good one since March and it's absolutely disgusting out there again. Grim, dull, rainy grey garbage for the second weekend in a row. It's just unreal. This weekend looks an even bigger abomination than last weeks stinking write-off
It's just intolerable. There is no useable weather at all. Stuck indoors constantly I'm at risk of developing pressure sores. Thank god, for both my physical and mental health, I will be spending the second half of this godawful month in Cyprus. Just can't take any more of this.
It's hard to imagine how it could be more dire than the past fortnight of unrelenting filth. One of the most dis-spiriting, depressing and soul destroying periods of weather I can ever recall. The persistent rank chilly feeling days, mild nights and rain pretty much every day. There hasn't been a dry day so far in this vile month but there hasn't even been 5mm
Hasn't reached 13C in over a week yet at the same time it's got no lower than a lame 3.6C.
I see the Met Office has uploaded interesting old Observatory Year books which can help but this era of unprecedented bland tripe into context.
https://digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk/SO_5575296f-0406-49f5-89cb-54cd79486b75/
I'll be using them over the winter to try and assess just how bad the situation is with regard to SE winds which appear to have increased in frequency so as almost to become the dominant wind. Can't get any sort of extended break from them yet it's been weeks since the wind blew from the West or South West
Already picked up some interesting nuggets regarding rainfall intensity. Several intense events that are just unheard of in this dismal era of unrelenting drizzly blandness:
6 Sept 1927: 30mm in less than five hours
22-23 Sept 1927: 71mm in 34 hours
10 Oct 1941: 62.5mm in 18 hours, during which 10mm fell in 72 minutes
28 Oct 1945: 27mm in five hours - this came after only four days rain in the first 20 during the month
Didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the commentary in the 1925 edition.
"There were no really notable falls of rain during 1925"
Then the following events are outlined:
Jan 2: 20mm fell in 5 1/2 hours during a snowstorm
May 18: 9mm fell in little over an hour of which 5mm fell in 15 minutes
July 26: 15mm fell in 2 1/2 hours during a thunderstorm
July 29: 16mm in under 5 hours of which 5mm fell in 10 minutes
Sept 19-20: 23mm fell in 11 hours
Oct 26: 13mm fell in 2 1/2 hours, 5mm of which fell in 10 minutes
God knows what that observer would think about 2019's weather. In todays context I would consider every one of those events notable and nothing has come close to any of them during this tedious year. A week ago there was 23mm in 24 hours and that has been about as intense as it's got. We probably haven't seen anything like any of them since the record wet June 2017 at least.
Definite tendancy for more rain days, less intense rainfall and shorter dry spells/droughts compared to the past that's for sure. Truly awful era for a Weather Enthusiast. I keep saying that but things just keep sinking further and further into the weather abyss
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