Still shockingly below average temps for the time of year. Only one instance of 15 degrees in this mornings 2m temp suite for my location on the south coast. 

This is MID MAY. To be honest I can’t remember a year like that. 

I’m now seriously writing off May seeing 20 degrees or at least until the end of the month. 

Anyone would think there’s been some type of global volcanic event. 

http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp4

Spain is the coldest spot after north Russia which is very wrong to happen after they had warm to hot end of winter over Spain.   At least the charts are correcting to adhere the season called Spring mean should be warming up phrase not other way around and the date today is 27th April not 27th October.

GFS Op - current area of LP, not particularly deep, circulating around (mainly W) Britain until Thu 2nd when it moves S-wards to Biscay. Pressure rises but with no real centre near Britain before new LP approaches the SW 1000mb Thu 9th moving SE-wards into France by Sun 12th with some warmer E/SE-lies for Britain albeit with some embedded troughs for the S.

ECM - differs from GFS after Sat 4th when the LP moves from Biscay to Germany, generating E-lies at first but then a more definite pressure rise, 1025mb covering Britain Tue 7th.

GEFS - temps moving from a little below norm to a little above by Wed 1st and staying there though with ens members disagreeing increasingly after Sat 4th. By Mon 13th there is a range of 20C between warmest and coldest! (op run becomes notably cold in Scotland)  Rain for this weekend esp in England, some in many places probable around Fri 3rd, small amounts intermittently in many runs at other times, always wetter in the west.

A modelled persistent Low is responsible for that cool weather in Spain. I suspect when it shifts there will be a rapid rise in temperature (as shown on the ECM 00z op run)

A longer memory helps - there were a number of years in the late 60s/early 70s when temps at least in NW England didn't reach 20C until well into June, including but not limited to the county cricket match snowed off at Buxton June 2nd 1975.

There have been many far worse periods of cold and wet but the longer it goes on the more dramatic is the sudden change that inevitably follows.

https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2016/04/27/snow-in-late-april-more-common-than-you-may-think/ 

It all looks pretty average and typical for the time of year to me. 

What we’re experiencing now is a prolonged cool and wet period meaning spring just has not sprung. 

Don't need to have a long memory when you have weather records. The relentless cold, bleak and unsettled rubbish we are enduring this year was absolutely not typical during the 60s or 70s. 

The highest temperature here in the second half of April has been 12C and there has been one dry day. Going back to 1961 only 1973, 1983 and 2012 had a comparable lack of warmth during the second half of April and none were as unsettled.

1969 was the only year of the 60s to have a second half of April as cold as this and the main difference is that it followed on from an exceptionally cold and snowy February so we weren't still getting the same temperatures for three months solid. Also the cold weather back then was not as hideous as this as evidenced from it actually being possible to get frost,  something that has not happened this month due to the relentless cloud/wind/rain.

Only two years in the 1970s (1972 and 1974) at Dyce failed to reach 20C by June whereas currently we are on a run of three years where that has not happened and wouldn't be surprised if this is a fourth. Even in the colder 1960s there were only four years the entire decade that 20C was not reached by June (1961, 1962, 1963, 1968). 1980-82 all reached 20C in May so the 19 year period 1964-82 only had three years in total that 20C was not reached by end of May compared to 10 since 2005 i.e. the majority.

A truly awful time to be alive 👎

There possibility of positive signs to see temperatures reaching to normal warm Spring days of low 20;s to mid 20 's in May from what I read on NW as all of them seeking for normal warmth.  Just hope it sticking to it and not to take away our rights for normal warm Spring days and must be sooner than later.

Fantastic post…

and importantly puts things in perspective  just how poor this spring has been in general. 

There sometimes seems to be an air of superiority and self righteousness from remembering 60’s weather events first hand. Such memories must be skewed and decayed. 

No - the old memories are clear and crisp and accurate, but I couldn’t tell you where i left my glasses!!!

I wouldn’t say it’s quite that bad ! 😀

Yes, it’s cool, dull and wet for the time of year, but the garden is full of flowers, birds are singing and everything is green and lush. We are also heading in the right direction for summer. Things will get better, don’t worry.

Yes, it’s grim today: 😎https://www.seacroftmarine.com/webcams/east-webcam/  

On the top, the 12z GFS for Leysdown. On the bottom, the UKV (via MetO)... just a 5C difference at 2PM!

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/compare.jpg 

Despite the persistent coolness the feature that stands out is the lack of frost this past 2 months . Nature is a couple or more weeks ahead of normal around here. 

GFS Op - Current LP circulating around Britain next week (today, N Sea; Mon, Shetland; Tue, Ireland; Thu, Cornwall; Sun, Scotland) before finally filling and disappearing into the mix near Iceland. Unlike previous forecasts, this LP does not move south and settle over France. From Mon 6th HP develops over N France (1025mb by Wed 8th) with W/SW winds from well south and although this weakens Sun 12th with LP near Scotland, it's back 1030mb Wales Tue 14th.

ECM - The LP circulates as above but at the end of the week it moves SE to Italy not NW to Iceland. HP nevertheless develops over N France Mon 6th 1025mb as above but shows a tendency to move NW to the Atlantic by Wed 8th.

GEFS - temps soon rising to norm, or a few degrees above in Scotland, then mean staying near norm though op and control warmer in the S around Sat 11th. After this weekend's rain has gone, more for the S around Thu 2nd  but relatively little thereafter; rain persistent in the NW; fairly dry in the NE throughout.

Quoting this from yesterday - the actual temperature at 2PM here was 9.1C, so MetO was far closer.

Meanwhile at Beenham, where the GFS had that wacky 3C (or 4C on this morning's run), it was 10.4C at 2PM.

A massive fail on the part of GFS, frankly... why DOES it get temperatures so badly wrong when predicting unusually cold conditions?

GFS can sod off and leave us alone and allow us to recover what Spring season got left.   

Edit:  It been stupid GFS lately Retron and we know it so best to ignore this model completely.   3C never happened in late of the month 

ECM also now following suit albeit a shallower one.

Both look fairly promising after the weekend though, ECM especially so.

Might even see a 20C at some point before June!

April has been above average but largely due to the incessant cloud and wind keeping night time temps up.

Please bring on the 240 hour charts!