Well the Met Office app got todays weather totally wrong it was meant to become sunny / sunny spells from mid to late morning and the day has yet again turned out cloudy with a cool NE wind and depressing temperatures of just 12 degrees for the London area . How can they get it so wrong?

Maybe, you'd be better moving up here to Scotland as we've had a lovely day today with the temperature reaching around 19°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank with more than 10 hours of sunshine (as at 5pm this afternoon).

In addition to that, recent months have been nowhere near as wet up here as they have been down south.

P.S. This is a gloat from me (which this thread allows) rather than a moan.

 

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There's certainly no moans from me today. An absolutely beautiful late spring day here with cloudless skies. Hopefully there's a lot more to come over the coming months!

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There's certainly no moans from me today. An absolutely beautiful late spring day here with cloudless skies. Hopefully there's a lot more to come over the coming months!

It's been bloody horrible here in Lincolnshire - like a dull autumn.

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It's been bloody horrible here in Lincolnshire - like a dull autumn.

Everything is reversed. Warm and sunny in the west of Ireland the last few days with high teen temps  Only now clouding over as a crappy weak front approaches.

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Yes some area of grass are 1m and some as low 50cm. I will use a trimmer to cut down once SSW gone for good.

Blimey, my OCD go into overdrive when my lawn is about to reach 10 cm but that may be the former council park keeper in me. But 1 metre? I'd get lost and need a team of Sherpas to find my way out again.

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Blimey, my OCD go into overdrive when my lawn is about to reach 10 cm but that may be the former council park keeper in me. But 1 metre? I'd get lost and need a team of Sherpas to find my way out again.

I moved in this house last year and the garden and soil type are different from what I used to live, it dries quickly but when it rain it get serious growth, there was former trees here and bushes before I moved as it been cut but bumpy land so cannot use a mower.  I plan to landscape it after putting conservatory and large patio.  Then will laid new lawn and get cut as normal.  Some grasses in bunches reach 1m as it higher than the 3ft fence on some areas.

In NW site I seen the most ever moaning post pages that you normally see this during snowing events.  It show everyone now really stressed from this Spring which had been destroyed completely by SSW.

Sun came out very late I notice the clouds no longer have typical clearance of 10am to 11am when I used to live in the SE which is more nearer to the east then Birmingham.  I assumed Birmingham get cleared around 9-10am follow by London 10-11am, never later than that  But now seem to clear 6pm or later time.

Cloud cleared by 7 am here yesterday  eastbourne  best day of an awful Spring 

Cloud cleared by 7 am here yesterday  eastbourne  best day of an awful Spring 

I suppose it was but I believe it was sunnier in the west than where you are. So 20.5C made it the best spring day so far here.
Yes I can understand why people like my sister think it's 'baking hot' at this temperature but... 
Nick

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Just been out for a walk around the garden... plenty of cracks now to be seen in any patches of bare earth. We need rain, but there's not much sign of any at the moment.

A mere 12mm this month, just under half of what we would expect so far, most of which fell in short, sharp bursts.



 

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Yesterday was one of the few good days this spring and woke up to sunshine today for the first time in an eternity and also the warmest temperature so far, albeit a less than impressive 17.5C.

However it wasn't long before it degenerated into another Sunday of pure hell. Now wet, sunless and down to 13.6C. It's beyond belief. Rain always broke up as it reached the NE. Now it intensifies and sticks over the region giving us the worst weather in the country as as been the case throughout this soul destroying atrocity of a May 🤮

Had a great day yesterday up at Loch Muick where it was 21C under glorious sunshine. A break from the living hell which has resumed once again. It's become impossible to get any sort of warm sunny day. The warmest temperatures used to be associated with dry, sunny days. Now they're reached briefly with limited sunshine before the rest of the day turns into a washout with markedly lower temperatures. It was exactly the same on Tuesday. Odds on this will be the third spring in succession to fail to hit 20C when it used to be hit in the majority of springs. Then come autumn, the wait for the first frost will be just as excruciating 😩

Yet to see a single good weekend the whole putrid season. Even 1983 managed a good one with 10 hours on the 14th May and 9 hours on the 15th. Nothing in this grotesque season even comes close to that. The sun average so far has been 2.79 hours. That's almost 4 standard deviations below the average for 2007-22 (5.72 hours with stdev 0.79 hrs and a range from 4.24hrs to 6.73hrs). It's just off the scale 🤢

Every single Sunday has been 💩 

These are the Sunday sun hours this spring so far : 0.1, 2.3, 1.2, 6.4, 3.7, 0.0, 2.7, 0.2,0.0,0.0. Today managed 3 hours before the filth set in once again 🤮

Beyond ludicrous and completely intolerable. Just one has managed 4 hours sun and that was 26th March with a dire max of 5.5C. I wasn't even here. I was down in London where it pretty much rained the whole day with zero sunshine 🤢

A worse run than anything at any time of year and it keeps getting worse and worse. Sunshine for the first fotnight of May is lower than the sunniest week of January 2022 managed. Crap like nothing on earth we ever used to get 😲

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Retron, its remarkable that you're only 60km NE of me as the crow flies and the weather appears to have been so different. We've had the wettest March/April period that I can remember. Its been much better this month but I still require wellies on the dog walks when I'd normally be in trainers by now. It just goes to show that even on a regional scale the weather can be so nuanced. 

 

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For anyone moaning in the UK about the unpleasant spring, perhaps spare a thought for Icelanders. Spring is still on hold after a long and often frigid winter even for them.
Catch it while it's still snowing:
https://livefromiceland.is/webcams/thingvellir

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It won't last of course and eventually spring will come.
And why? This shows clearly the cold air still available.
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=61;45;2&l=temperature-2m

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It was bloody freezing at West Kirby (NW Wirral) yesterday afternoon with a strong wind. In the showers, the rain was coming in almost horizontally. 

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Retron, its remarkable that you're only 60km NE of me as the crow flies and the weather appears to have been so different. We've had the wettest March/April period that I can remember. Its been much better this month but I still require wellies on the dog walks when I'd normally be in trainers by now. It just goes to show that even on a regional scale the weather can be so nuanced.
 

It's the North Downs - they act as a squeegee with rain from the west, and they provide a chunk of warming with winds from the west to the south (it's why Brogdale took the record 20 years ago).

I was quite excited at seeing some rain around today, but like magic the showers parted over my end of the island. Not even enough to tip the gauge. Not much chance of rain for the foreseeable future either.

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It was bloody freezing at West Kirby (NW Wirral) yesterday afternoon with a strong wind. In the showers, the rain was coming in almost horizontally. 

Was on the other coast yesterday at Bridlington and it was a lovely day.  16-18c away from the exposed shoreline (wind was southerly) , turned a bit colder later as the wind veered SE and came off the North Sea. 
Even took a dip but at 9.5c water temp was a tad chilly

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Was on the other coast yesterday at Bridlington and it was a lovely day.  16-18c away from the exposed shoreline (wind was southerly) , turned a bit colder later as the wind veered SE and came off the North Sea. 
Even took a dip but at 9.5c water temp was a tad chilly

Was a NW'ly there. It'd been nice round here in the morning (and Saturday was the best day of the year so far) but that front was a stinker.

Hence why I love easterlies!

 

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Was a NW'ly there. It'd been nice round here in the morning (and Saturday was the best day of the year so far) but that front was a stinker.

Hence why I love easterlies!

 

Being in the middle (both coasts are a pain to get to) I choose  based on the forecast.   Warmest beach days I have had have been on the Irish sea coast, Say St Annes. with a lovely East or SE breeze.  Always seems to be  more of a sea breeze on supposed  hot days in the East, unless there are quite strong SW winds, usually just before a breakdown. 

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Another revolting week here as the 'best'month of the year continues to produce more repellent conditions than the worst would dare to. It's just relentless.

Today is the 9th completely sunless day out of 22. More than a third of days. It's just unreal.  It's gone from cold gloom to mild clag like nothing on earth we ever used to get in spring. Hardly any days in May should have zero sunshine never mind one with a max of 16.6C as was reached today 🙄

Four days over 16C and they have produced a total of 9.2 hours sun between them. Just what the hell is going on? Only two nights have dropped below 5C all month because of this relentless vile weather. It's like a bad 21st Century October. Endless cloud, suppressed temperatures. Nothing resembling spring at all. Even a bad spring month should be way better than this 🤬

56% of average sunshine and even to get to the woeful level achieved by May 2021 - the dullest of the past 30 years - will require 5.4 hours average for the rest of the month. Only about 85% of average so shouldn't be too difficult but when only five days so far have been that sunny it seems an impossible task🤮

5/18 days managing to achieve a daily sun total that only three Mays this century have failed to better as a monthly average. It's beyond ludicrous. Yet another 21st Century summer half month that begs the question: How the hell can this be happening? 🤢🤢🤢
 

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Today is the 9th completely sunless day out of 22. More than a third of days. It's just unreal.  
 

Just trying to help you out Richard, I think it would be far better to say almost half as opposed to more than a third... of the days...😎

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Turning into quite a decent May in this neck of the woods - certainly better than last year. A pleasantly fine week this week and the same looks to be the case for next week too.

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