Utterly s***e here in Central France. So cold for late May...9 degrees today and rain. We have had one nice day this month and that was yesterday when we reached 17 degrees. Surely one of the worst springs and worst May's in living memory?

 

LOL

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/21/uk-weather-may-on-track-to-be-wettest-on-record-with-more-rain-to-come 

Terrible day here in Fulham cold strong winds and no end in sight to what must be the worst spring in living memory if it’s warmth you are after! I really fear that early to mid summer may become a washout unless there is a major pattern change which seems highly unlikely in the weeks ahead

I did suggest this a month ago and got roundly condemned for hyperbole. I wrote off May on around 1st May and was told I was being ridiculous.

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Sadly you are spot on . It will be fascinating to see Brian’s summer forecast next week and see if his interpretation and view will change in light of the continuation of these awful November type conditions

If there's one consolation, at least it will be a very long time until we see an April/May with statistics like these again.

In recent years though, this time of year has spoilt us with warm, dry and sunny weather so a rubbish one was unfortunately due (though April was dry despite the cold).

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If there's one consolation, at least it will be a very long time until we see an April/May with statistics like these again.

In recent years though, this time of year has spoilt us with warm, dry and sunny weather so a rubbish one was unfortunately due (though April was dry despite the cold).

April was a fantastic month. The cold was mainly from the mininma, it was dry with copious amounts of sunshine and even daytime maxes were for the most part at least reasonable. And April sunshine feels warm pretty much whatever the actual temperature is.

May on the other hand has been awful. Today in fact has been *diabolical*. Judging by the rainfall radar I think the centre of the low actually passed over Bolton. Now the north-westerlies are kicking in and the rain is relentless. A miserable & wretched day. I feel like closing the curtains now like I might in mid-winter so I don't have to see it.

 

 

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Appalling day of violent gusts and downed branches and travel disruption on a large scale.

 

roll on spring.....

 

oh, hang on a minute...

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April was a fantastic month. The cold was mainly from the mininma, it was dry with copious amounts of sunshine and even daytime maxes were for the most part at least reasonable. And April sunshine feels warm pretty much whatever the actual temperature is.

May on the other hand has been awful. Today in fact has been *diabolical*. Judging by the rainfall radar I think the centre of the low actually passed over Bolton. Now the north-westerlies are kicking in and the rain is relentless. A miserable & wretched day. I feel like closing the curtains now like I might in mid-winter so I don't have to see it.

 

That's my take, too. We were getting grass beginning to brown towards the end of April, after no rain for about 3 weeks.

Indifferent March, decent April, awful May.

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Awful, awful, awful day, & no sign of Summer weather. Roll on September.

We're only a week and a half away from what is supposed to be the start of our so-called "summer" and yet, we're still experiencing single figures maximum temperatures here in Edinburgh.

Absolutely shocking!!

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Grim here in NorthNor'land, blowing rain all day and max of 9.9 C occurred overnight, typical December weather, b7y 10pm 5.8 and overcast.

 

April was a fantastic month. The cold was mainly from the mininma, it was dry with copious amounts of sunshine and even daytime maxes were for the most part at least reasonable. And April sunshine feels warm pretty much whatever the actual temperature is.

May on the other hand has been awful. Today in fact has been *diabolical*. Judging by the rainfall radar I think the centre of the low actually passed over Bolton. Now the north-westerlies are kicking in and the rain is relentless. A miserable & wretched day. I feel like closing the curtains now like I might in mid-winter so I don't have to see it.

 

 

The days in April were pretty good, but those constant night frosts really got on my nerves. I hated getting out of work at 06:00 in the morning and having to scrape my car nearly every day. They also wrecked a few of my plants.

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2.1C and there is a frost on car roof. I suspect the temperature will rise before dawn

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Today, Sunday blustery once again in Fulham and starting to rain. Temp just 12 degrees. In a word horrid!

Fed up with all this rain. 10 times more than May 2020 ..... 

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The days in April were pretty good, but those constant night frosts really got on my nerves. I hated getting out of work at 06:00 in the morning and having to scrape my car nearly every day. They also wrecked a few of my plants.

I didn't mind the frosty nights. I have taken to walking the 2.5 miles to work wearing shorts in (almost!) all weathers. Frosty air on bare legs? It's not cold, it's 'invigorating' :)

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It has turned into one of those occasions, where a month has turned into almost the exact opposite of its predecessor, the year before.

Last May, regionally, was the driest on record and exceptionally sunny. This year, May is now regionally, the 4th wettest May on record and has been very dull. 

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Chose May to go to the Highlands because I thought that was the one month where I wouldn't experience nuclear winter conditions. Couldn't have been more wrong with that.

Shockingly bad weather that started poor and just got worse and worse. Barely saw any sunshine the entire time except in coastal locations and the last five days were horrific beyond comprehension. Barely stopped raining, temperatures at times lower than the average January maximum during the day and endless ugly grotesque grey filth covering the sky  The warmest it reached was around 15/16C in Oban on Sunday 16th which is just the average for May. I don't think any other day made it beyond 13C 

Yet another holiday in which the weather was not just worse than average but as bad as it could possibly be. On a par with Slovakia in May/June 2013 as the most dismal, grey, depressing and sunless weather I have ever endured on a holiday.

I really can't put into words how sick to death I am of being imprisoned in this cesspit grey island after that. Forecast: showers this morning but then brightening up. Reality: persistent rain until after Inverness then soul destroying grey garbage all the way home after that. Absolutely DISGUSTING 

When I go on holiday I want to be able to spend as much time outdoors as possible and be able to sit out in the garden until after dark. In this stinking country I can't even do that at the peak of the day in what should be the best month of the year. 90% of the planet wouldn't endure toxic crud like this in their worst month.

In 2019 I recorded only 37.1 hours sun from the 18th-31st May and struggled to find a precedent for such a revolting May fortnight. I eventually came up with two worse offerings:  2nd-15th May 1927 with 24 hours and 2nd-15th May 1969 with 26 hours. Just 2 years on that dismal fortnight has been eclipsed with the past 14 days seeing just 26 hours so as bad as anything ever recorded during May.

12th - 25th November 2020 had more sun and that included the end of a spell that was grim by November standards 

This month has been an utter car crash on a par with May 1983. The month so bad that there was nothing like it in over 120 years of prior records. It's hard to believe even then that there could have been so much bare tree foliage a week from summer. The current situation has to be unprecedented.

It has been horrifically cold, horrifically dull and horrifically wet. Last May was nowhere near as good as this month has been terrible. An extremely cold spell last year brought the latest snow since 1975 and 8 colder than average maximums including two that were more than 5C below average: 7.1 on the 10th and 7.8 on the 13th. Only four days this month have reached average maxima with a shockingly bad absolute high of 15.5C - so nothing more than 2C above average 

If there ever has been such a protracted period of consistently well above average temperatures on a par with the past month then it could only have been July/August 1995. Certainly not recently. 

Also last May recorded 236 hours sun which is 35 hours above average. Equivalent below average would be 166 hours which is what 2019 recorded. This month has so far recorded 90 hours  I wasn't that far north but Altnaharra has recorded 48 hours which is beyond credulity.

The latest in a run of dire Mays since 2014. The worst run since the horrifying 1967-73 period which was the May equivalent of 2007-12 summers. Really concerning that the permacast hell which turned June from the best month of the year into the worst seems to be spreading into May leaving April as the sunniest month now. We've also now seen wintry precipiation in three successive Mays for only the second time in 70 years, the other being 1995-97

2014, 2015 and 2019 were all ghastly Mays. 2016 poor as well with lots of anticylonic gloom. 2021 makes all of them seem acceptable by comparison 

This last year has been a total nightmare made so much worse by the godawful weather which could not have been worse. Four consecutive wetter than average seasons which I don't think has happened since 1997/98 and closing in on a 12-month metre of rain. What the hell next?

June 2007

July 2012

August 1963

September 1976

Just no floor on how low things can sink any more 

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I think, judging by Matt Hugo's thoughts on Twitter, the spring moaning thread will morph into the summer moaning thread very soon.
He is pretty much writing off June.

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Chose May to go to the Highlands because I thought that was the one month where I wouldn't experience nuclear winter conditions. Couldn't have been more wrong with that.

Glad to see you're OK Richard and having an utterly miserable time with the weather wherever you went.

You hadn't posted for a while and I was worried about you!

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