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.

 Been a decent enough day today at my end as well, but it’d be better still if there isn’t that semi permanent nagging NE breeze. Hardly a sniff of that in the winter months and yet almost constant between March and June! Still, rather be cool & fresh than hot & sticky.

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Yet another godawful soul destyroying wretched abomination of a weekend. It's just relentless. Something that is so absurd and far off the scale it just shouldn't be happening.

With an average of 5.7 hours sun and a standard deviation of 0.8, for spring weekend days, the probability of getting the 2.8 hours average recorded this year is infinitesimally small due to being 3.7 standard deviations below the mean. Just shoudn't be happening. Made all the more ridiculous by the weekday sunshine being over 5 hours and the weekdays were actually sunnier than average in March and April 🤬

May used to be my favourite month of the year but now it's been ruined completely. An absolutely dreadful run since 2014 that just sinks further into the abyss. Two of the worst Mays ever in the space of three years plus the horrific final fortnight of May 2019. All worse than diabolical and on a par with the 2007-12 run of awful-without-precedent summers 🤮🤮

This miserable run of weekends was ludicrous a long time ago but on it goes. Weekend after weekend of utterly woeful grey 💩. It's got to the stage where it feels like it will never end. Never been so depressed in my entire life. I basically no longer have a life because everything I enjoy has been taken from me.

Weekend after weekend of soulless unusable grey filth, at what should be the best time of year, has sucked the life out of me completely and left me feeling lathargic and unable to do anything. I can't put into words how much I hate living in this appalling cesspit unfit for human habitation. All the quality of life of a penal colony 🤢

17 completely sunless days this spring. Only one season in the past 6 years has recorded as many - winter 2021/22. Six of those rancid days have been at the weekend. With yet another weekend day with a seemingly never ending feed of featureless overcast crud, looks like today will make number 7. The 6th for May when half of the past 16 Mays have had either zero or a single sunless day.

There is pretty much no way back for 2023 after the health-threatning horror show so far. It would need a summer like 1976/1995 something that no longer seems possible in the clag infested hell of the 21st Century 🤢
 

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Yet another revolting 🐕💩 Sunday. Lost count of how many crap Sundays that is in a row now but the last even vaguely acceptable one was 12th February 🤢

This has to one of the worst yet. Murk, rain, temperature stuck on the overnight low of 10.2C. Beyond vile 👿

Are we seriously going to get the third completely sunless weekend out of four? It just speaks volumes about low things have sunk that such a question would be asked at what is supposed to be the best time of year. I suspect it's as long ago as December 2002 when anything this bad has happened in the winter half and even then it hadn't gone on for months beforehand.

It's also telling that even spring 1983, the worst spring ever recorded, didn't manage a single sunless weekend never mind three. Indeed it's something that's so exceptionally rare that there had only been one completely sunless weekend during April or May in the entirety of the past 16 years which once again shows how far beyond the bounds of normality this car crash spring lies. What used to be my favourite season of a year reduced to a complete write-off.

Sunless April Weekend days since 2007:

01/04/2012
04/04/2015
06/04/2019
07/04/2019
27/04/2019
16/04/2022
24/04/2022
01/04/2023
09/04/2023
29/04/2023
30/04/2023

More than half of them in the past two years and the majority of the rest in 2019.

May is a similar stroy of abject horror:

13/05/2007
11/05/2008
16/05/2009
18/05/2013
25/05/2014
03/05/2015
18/05/2019
08/05/2021
06/05/2023
07/05/2023
20/05/2023

Almost half since 2019 and no other year except 2023 with more than one 😩

If in December, someone had predicted that this year would be so awful that the winter would only have four frosts after the first week of January, that February would be entirely frost-free without so much as a flake of snow and that this would be followed by a spring so bad that the weekends would barely average 2 1/2 hours sun per day and that the Sundays would be so grim that not a single one during April and May would even manage 4 hours sun, you'd have assumed they must be on drugs to come out with such absurd and blatently improbable nonsense yet that is exactly what has happened 🤯

The only way the past 4 1/2 months make any sense is if I were to wake up screaming in fear to find it's just been a horrific nightmare and it's still just 6th January 😱🤮👺

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We seem to have sleepwalked into a really nice late spring spell.

Last week was largely fine; yesterday was a cracker and today going to be a repeat (albeit with some high cloud); next week looks great; then the BH weekend is shaping up to be beautiful. 

 

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We seem to have sleepwalked into a really nice late spring spell.

Last week was largely fine; yesterday was a cracker and today going to be a repeat (albeit with some high cloud); next week looks great; then the BH weekend is shaping up to be beautiful. 

 

It's my idea of perfect weather, I can sit in the sun without getting hot and it's no problem pottering about gardening too

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It's my idea of perfect weather, I can sit in the sun without getting hot and it's no problem pottering about gardening too

Swap?  

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We seem to have sleepwalked into a really nice late spring spell.

Last week was largely fine; yesterday was a cracker and today going to be a repeat (albeit with some high cloud); next week looks great; then the BH weekend is shaping up to be beautiful.
 

Yes, summer is working its way north, having arrived here a couple of weeks ago.

As I said back then, it's as if a swicth has been flicked: off goes the rain, on goes the sun. No rain in sight down here, which means this time next week we'll be in a drought.

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Here in Edinburgh, I've actually forgotten what a really wet spell of weather is like because it is now so long ago since we had last had one that I've even forgotten when that was.

However, I've noticed that Richard from Aberdeen has been complaining a lot recently about the most recent sunshine totals in his area. As this is the moaning thread, he is fully entitled to do that but in doing so, he should at least spare a thought on what it have like recently here in Edinburgh on that front.

Here, we have just had a completely sunless weekend at Edinburgh Gogarbank and with just another 10 days left of this month after today, we have had a total of just 77.6 hours of sunshine during this month so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank which is just a rather miserable 40.9% of the 1991-2020 May average for that particular station. Richard has at least reported that he has had just over a half of his own May average for his own neck of the woods, but we haven't even managed to achieve that here in Edinburgh.

Even on our sunniest day of this month so far, a total of just under 12 hours of sunshine was recorded for that particular day, but this is actually no better than what we had back in March which the same month as when the Vernal Equinox occurs. Yet, we are now only a month away from the summer solstice and at this time of the year, we should therefore be able to achieve a total of more than 12 hours of sunshine quite comfortably on at least a number of occasions.

The fact that we have still not recorded a daily sunshine total of more than 12 hours of sunshine (with only a very short time left to go until the end of the month as well) within what is actually our sunniest month of the year according to our 1991-2020 averages is actually rather pathetic!!😡

Normally, those totals would be better at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh which are normally sunnier than Edinburgh Gogarbank on average. However, the botanic gardens in Edinburgh are closer to the east coast than Edinburgh Gogarbank and because of the predominance of winds from off the North Sea during this spring, that hasn't been the case this time and so, the totals for the botanic gardens are actually even worse on this occasion.

The botanic gardens in Edinburgh is a SYNOP station (along with Edinburgh Gogarbank), but is not in the WMO's list of stations (it doesn't have a WMO number which starts with '03'). Because of that, the sunshine totals which I have for there are never as much up to date as they are for Edinburgh Gogarbank as I have rely on getting that data from the Met Office WOW site (the data for there which I get from weatherobs doesn't include that sunshine data). However, the data which I have for there is only a day or two behind the data for Edinburgh Gogarbank.

As I write, I currently have the sunshine data for the botanic gardens in Edinburgh up to 19 May 2023 but at that point in time, a total of just 65.1 hours of sunshine had been recorded there during this month with that amounting just a miserable 33.4% of that stations 1991-2020 May average, and with a total of just 9.8 hours of sunshine on the sunniest day of this month so far (that is even lass than that figure was for both March and April, and not all that much better than what it was for February despite this month being our sunniest month of the year on average😡).

Finally and with just 10 days left of this month, Edinburgh has still not had a single temperature during this year of 20°C or more. If that doesn't happen before the end of this month, this will be the first spring which I can remember when that was actually the case and if that happens, it will very much be the polar opposite of us going through an entire autumn and into the following winter without a single air frost being recorded here.

Absolutely pathetic!!😡

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I was out for a walk along the bottom of the pentlands at the bypass and it was weird. The gorse is bright yellow and everything else just recedes into the fog but the yellow still shows - it was like being on a star trek set...

Have to say apart from that a miserable late spring day

 Richard has at least reported that he has had just over a half of his own May average for his own neck of the woods, but we haven't even managed to achieve that here in Edinburgh.

Once again it's E and NE Scotland suffering more than any other region 🤬

71.9 hours up to yesterday which is about 54% of average for the first three weeks of May. All the worse for following rapidly from the almost as dire 2021 which had 84.2 hours for the same period. 2014 was the only other May in the past 16 years with fewer than 100 hours for the first three weeks.

14 sunless days throughout April and May smashing the previous record of 9 in 2012 and as many as my previous highest total for the entire spring which was 14 in 2018. Of course that was down to March and early April as May was as far removed from the current horror as it's possible to get.

Today just brought more of the same garbage. A stagnant area of repulsive cloud that just sits there. It cleared this afternoon but within little  more than an hour it had all filled back in again 🙄 A surreal, never-ending hell.

Apart from Friday afternoon and evening, and the brief respite this afternoon, it has been almost completely sunless since last Wednesday lunchtime. There are no words that would do this horror of a season justice 😱

An unspeakably vile May and Spring that is the work of Satan. Many of the very worst Novembers, including last year, were nowhere near as insufferably bleak 🤮 Can't even get the interest from heavy downpours and convective activity that bad months in the past would have. It's just soul destroying grey nothingness day after day 🤢

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I am reflecting on when we shall hear the D word!
😁

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I am reflecting on when we shall hear the D word!
😁

As I said yesterday, around here it'll be Sunday. 😉

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I am reflecting on when we shall hear the D word!
😁

Dreich? 😁

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Dreich? 😁

😁 I don't think we do "Dreich" in Lincolnshire.
 

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Once again it's E and NE Scotland suffering more than any other region 🤬

71.9 hours up to yesterday which is about 54% of average for the first three weeks of May. All the worse for following rapidly from the almost as dire 2021 which had 84.2 hours for the same period. 2014 was the only other May in the past 16 years with fewer than 100 hours for the first three weeks.

14 sunless days throughout April and May smashing the previous record of 9 in 2012 and as many as my previous highest total for the entire spring which was 14 in 2018. Of course that was down to March and early April as May was as far removed from the current horror as it's possible to get.

Today just brought more of the same garbage. A stagnant area of repulsive cloud that just sits there. It cleared this afternoon but within little  more than an hour it had all filled back in again 🙄 A surreal, never-ending hell.

Apart from Friday afternoon and evening, and the brief respite this afternoon, it has been almost completely sunless since last Wednesday lunchtime. There are no words that would do this horror of a season justice 😱

An unspeakably vile May and Spring that is the work of Satan. Many of the very worst Novembers, including last year, were nowhere near as insufferably bleak 🤮 Can't even get the interest from heavy downpours and convective activity that bad months in the past would have. It's just soul destroying grey nothingness day after day 🤢

Believe it or not, I'm actually already starting to look forward to next winter because then, we will at least not have to see those almost constant grey skies as much which we are experiencing these days as it will then be dark for most of the time.

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Believe it or not, I'm actually already starting to look forward to next winter because then, we will at least not have to see those almost constant grey skies as much which we are experiencing these days as it will then be dark for most of the time.

Severe loss of warm useable days prior to longest day which now not long before drawing back in.   I been reading reports how bad it was in SE this Spring.  When I used to live there at anytime get winds from the east never overcast all day as normally get clear blue skies from 11am.

Very cloudy here in Sheffield now. Looks very cloudy tonight - no chance of photographing the supernova SN 2023ixf, found in Pinwheel Galaxy. The forecast looks very poor for next few nights too. I suspect when it's clear, the supernova will start dimming! Diabolical!! ☹😩😡

It's the weekend and yet again it's another horrific soul destroying cloudfest that is disgusting and depressing beyond comprehension.

It looks as though weekends will come in under 3 hours sun and Sunday under 2 hours. There are just no words. Even the bleakest of winters were never this bad weekend after weekend. Normal levels of sun are pifitul enough in this godforsaken country without sinking to levels that could only be expected in wastelands unfit for human habitation.

How much more of this unrelenting 💩can anyone be expected to take? Every single weekend the same wrist-slittingly awful grey rot that is just unbelievable. Any blue skies that appear just get filled in with cloud almost immediately 😡

It's just getting worse and worse. It was a notably bad run of weekends at the midpoint of this godawful spring but the second half as been even more sunless. All the worse because the weekdays have just had normal weather. It's just the weekends handpicked to have the most grotesque and poisonous crap every single week 🤢

I really am at breaking point. Stuck indoors working all week and for what? To be slapped in the face every single weekend with the most repugnant and detestable conditions which make me feel miserable, tired and fed up.

Filthy sunless horrible depressing grey muck every single weekend of spring.  Feels like I've just had to endure back to back winters with the second being way more bleak, dismal and depressing than the first. Not even the Faeroe Islands could have weekend after weekend of this grot. Just unimaginable even there 🤮
 

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After a so-so start, this May has turned into a cracker. Long may this set-up continue!

😋

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Dry and sunny end to the month. Hose for the garden plants has been used the last week.
Had to buy a new connector for the water gun.

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