It's certainly windy here today and cloudy and feels utterly dire. October is the right word for it. Max of 16.6C but felt nothing like it. Could only stomach about 5-10mins sitting out in the garden at lunchtime and cancelled plans to go out for a cycle after work as it's just horrible out there.
It's been an absolute GARBAGE spring. Horrendously cold, wet and dull first half of April then a sunnier, drier and warmer second half in which all the fine weather manage to avoid the weekends, except for Saturday 23rd. Easter weekend was one of the most putrid ever.
Now another utterly dire May, a month which is supposed to be the best of the spring but is now frequently the worst. Since 2014 it's just gone the same way as summer did in 2007. Utterly awful, dull depressing run. On course to be the 6
th duller than average out of 9
Just 57 hours of sun after 13 days. Fine spell cancelled. Once again it seems like an endless train of cloud. Like 2014 and 2016 a nominally warm month that feels devoid of warmth due to the lack of sun.
Three days of 18-19C with pitiful sunshine amounts of 2-3 hours. Then we get sunny days which reach only 13C. Even 13C and sun still feels miles better than todays tripe. It's a complete joke - the antithesis of what was always considered normal. Only one night has been colder than average, reflecting the persistence of extreme poor conditions.
Last May I holidayed in the Highlands and the weather was worse than dreadful. This years figures are making that horror May seem acceptable by comparison. Mind-blowingly awful. May average is around 175 hours but so far Tulloch Bridge has had 23 hours of sun and, despite being an area noted for cold nights, hasn't dropped below 5C. Glasgow has hasn't dropped below 7C.
This is not Spring. It is akin only to the revolting horror mild Octobers that have become an almost annual occurrence since the turn of the century
There was more genuine warmth in the Little Ice Age than there is now. This endless mild cloudy clag with temperatures held up every night is not what any remotely rational person would consider to be 'warmth'. It's disgusting
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