Apart from the months I have been lucky enough to escape from this soul destroying hellhole the only abiding memory I have from the past 2 1/2 years is of dismal grey Sundays stuck in the house like a comatose vegetable getting absolutely nothing out of life.

This hell is unlike anything I've ever experienced before. It's like having to constantly relive Summer 2007 on a never ending loop of depair. Since November 2022 it has constantly been the worst day of the week by a margin and the grimness has instensifed since last Autumn, in defiance of any reasonable expectation. 

Since September it has had only 27% of the possible sun which is worse than any calendar year in recorded history and it constrasts with 58% for Thursday. It's just a ludicrous differential that shouldn't be happening. There is no rational explanation for this.

Nowhere else on earth is enduring this except for uninhabitable wastelands. Even Edinburgh had four decent Sundays in a row up to last week whereas here all but one were miserable grey and overcast. Can't remember the last time we had four good Sundays in a row. There's only been three in total in the past five months. 

Just 51.2 hours sun since the 13th which compares to 51.7 hours for 13th to 27th April 2012. So we need half an hour sunshine just to equal that terrible total from the dullest April of the past 80 years. Looking at the putrid mess on the satellite that could be a tough ask.

It really has been the most montonous spell of unspeakably dire grey nothingess I've ever experienced in mid-to late April which should be one of the best times of the year but has been reduced to ranking amongst the worst. As rotten as the worst Novembers.

Spring is nothing but an extension of winter these days. Need the heating on round the clock day after day and still need to take vitamin D supplement. Can't sit in the garden and can't enjoy a trip to the countryside to see the lambs frolicking about. Not that they'd be doing that in these grotesque conditions that suck the life out of everything. More like huddled up in the corner of the field. It's bleak beyond comprehension.

So no comment about March in Aberdeen being warmer, sunnier & drier than average then? Thought not. What you say is nonsense.

Having said that, it has brightened up and the sun has (nearly) come out here now so I might pop down to the beach for a walk shortly. It is also a good deal warmer than yesterday at 15°C just now. I just hope it lasts*.

*Edit: It didn’t.

Edit again: It did actually turn into a very pleasant and warm feeling afternoon after all.

That feelings are intensified when I wake up to more conditions that are awful without precedent. Absolutely vile min of 12.6C last night which is at least 1C above anything ever seen in April before as the grim, montonous grey hell enters a 16th day. 

Just hellishly awful and the antithesis of what spring should be bringing.

Shocking the apple weather app was very wrong the most wrong ever recorded, it show fully overcast skies all day, low max temps and unsettled way.  They were correct to put full sun from Sunday to Friday before now they made it all wrong.  I wonder if they using the GFS data which had gone downhill lately?

I suspect we may well pay for it later in the Summer with some very wet weather, however if it remains dry there will be some serious problems with drought. Feb, March and April all significantly drier than usual here and May looks like it will continue the trend. 

We all received above average sunshine hours last month! Well, nearly all of us, anyway...

Rare for all the country to be so far above,  pretty remarkable. 

Seem my area did very well on the darker orange shading which is correct as I see many sunny days here.

Rating for April is 10/10 same to March 10/10 for being much drier, warmer and extremely sunny.  This Spring is a a lot warmer than last year pack of lies and nonsense, was colder, wetter and very dull, rarely wore shorts or summer clothes until end of May for few days, this year started wearing shorts for a short time around midday in end of Feb, more frequent in March daytime only and now 24hrs wearing summer clothing.  My house indoor temps was 27-31C yesterday and 40.2C on 30th April and 40.3C yesterday in the conservatory and today 27-29C and 35.8C as it a bit more hazier so it comfortable warm and now storing the warmth for the up coming colder shot over the cursed BH weekend, thankfully I am back to shift work on Sunday after 18 days off which was good timing on this good weather bar the cursed Easter poor weekend.

Heating had been off since March 29th compare to April 30th last year as it was so cold month.  So my usage amount drop by half for April.

Richard Aberdeen would have been happier if he change his job to do the shift pattern and give a V-sign to the Mon-Friday 9-5pm jobs that forced you to the weekends off and lost days during wet/dull BH weekends.  I read few complaints this week in the NW forum about missing out this week good weather while at work.

Sunshine for the 13th to 28th April was the lowest I have ever recorded for that period even beating 2012. Just 56.4 hours whereas even 2012, which was the dullest April since 1941, managed 61.0 hours. Quite simply it was the most grim, monotonous and dire period of April weather I've ever experienced.

It was still above average for the month thanks to the ridiculously sunny first 12 days (except for Saturday 5th which was the coldest day of the month) and the last two days. That's just the problem these days. No longer changeable with variable cloud but 'famine or feast' and you're always left going hungry at the weekends. Edinburgh had practically the same sunshine but distributed much more fairly so a vastly superior month there.

Absolutely REVOLTING weekend weather yet again. Another crap May holiday weekend. Should be the best time of year but now it's the worst. Cloudy, cold and windy with pointless putrid drizzle showers that barely cause the gauge to tip. 9.3C which is 11C colder than it was on Tuesday and Wednesday. It's just unbearable.

North Westerlies used to produce calm clear nights with air or ground frost and then the convective cloud would bubble up during the day giving photogenic skies and productive showers. Not this useless ugly,depressing, cloudy,windy mess with minima of 6/7C. Beyond dire.

It's now the second worst spring I can remember after the horror show that was 2023. It only managed a ludicrous average of 2.9 hours sun per weekend day - below even 1983 which overall was the dullest on record by some way.  

This year is running second lowest, in my 19 year records, at 4.1 hours but I'm starting to wonder, given that there appears to be no end in sight to this preposterous nonsense, if it could end up as bad as 2023. That was something so awful it should never have happened in the first place and just two years on it's happening again. 

I suspect that that for some parts of the country e.g. here this year could have been even drier

I know people are getting concerned about the dryness, but to be honest, I'd much rather it be too dry than be drowning in rain. Hopefully it continues into summer, but I'd presume we will be getting close to a change soon.

Just stay safe, Bolty. You could be seeing extremely dangerous temps of up to 25c. 

UK households told to 'stay indoors' for four hours on Sunday as temperatures soar

Sunday is set to be the hottest day of the weekend with temperatures in London and Manchester expected to hit 26C, while parts of Liverpool and Birmingham could see 25C

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-households-told-stay-indoors-35205650 

LOL, what ridiculous nonsense! Even in mid May temps in the mid 20s aren't particularly unusual. Makes me wonder how us Brits ever cope with going to the Med in the summer where the low 30s is normal. Oh, and any article that refers to scientists/experts as 'boffins' just gets instantly dismissed by me as rubbish anyway.

Even the heat haters dont like those temps as there posters posting it about this.  They really need to see the doctor with health issue against low 20's temps.  This is room temps we get to live and to survive in.

Been great and this year is on par of 2018 version with sunny days, cool nights and very low humidity. Slighty parching started to appear here now on my new grass but still healthy, at least no rain to generate weed fest like last year.  Just hope we don't get cut off this period until Autumn season unlike 2018 was cut off by 2nd week of August and not recovered.

Goodness me, what a pathetic article 😂.

No wonder so many of the Joe public think climate change is a load of alarmist nonsense intent on controlling the masses, when crap like this is published. A 25°C day in May is hardly unusual and has definitely happened many times in the past. In fact, I'd imagine most Mays do end up recording it at some point somewhere, even 100 years ago.

Retire mate. I've had a suntan since March.

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Last thing we need is an inflationary spike.

Actually I do agree. We are keen plant growers (including our own food) and having to water massively at a time when water prices are increasing massively. Chris Fawkes MT BBC forecast sounded like the HP was never going to go away again.Geo engineering by a hostile power?

At times like this I'm glad Southern Water failed (8 or 9 times) to find my stopcock, so they couldn't install a meter! I'm the only one in my road without one... topped up the pond today and didn't have to pay any extra for the privilege. 👌

Everything's still green despite having only 1mm of rain this month - but for how much longer, I wonder? The ground is baked solid.