Hasn't exceeded 16c here for 6 months

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It's been dry here since last week (apart from a very brief shower on Saturday). I've had tarps over the washing line, which had got a dirty over the winter and I was hoping that the forecasted rain washed them a bit. No such luck. 

Must be the first time I've complained about a lack of rain!!

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Hasn't exceeded 16c here for 6 months

Same here near the South Coast  and I'm nkt convinced it will this next few days either Another day today where it hasn't made double figures as yet 

Not had a 16°C day here either. The last one to do it was 13 November.

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Not had a 16°C day here either. The last one to do it was 13 November.

Extremely concerning those temperatures failed to go over 16C and only 7 weeks left to the longest day.  Very tired of wearing winter clothing near May.  The SSW had severely destroyed 2 out of 3 month of normal Spring climatology average.  In Spring you expect occasion warm spells to be included as it heading to summer season, all had failed.  Mostly cold to average days.   Average March warmest day 18C, 23C in April and 28C in May.  First 2 failed so far and what May have in store?  February was the best month for this year, warmer indoor temps, milder days, lot of sunshine and much welcome less rainfall.

It hasn’t reached double figures here since last weekend but may get as high as 11°C today before a colder day (forecast high of circa 7°C) tomorrow. Tedious.

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Just looking at the sunshine figures for around here as well. March and April total could be the lowest since 2001. Could be close to 2018 though so at least the least sunny for 5 years and possibly end up for over 20 years but almost certainly in the the least two sunny total combined for March and April since 1970 !!

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Just looking at the sunshine figures for around here as well. March and April total could be the lowest since 2001. Could be close to 2018 though so at least the least sunny for 5 years and possibly end up for over 20 years but almost certainly in the the least two sunny total combined for March and April since 1970 !!

2018 summer was fantastic. I think everywhere got a decent crack at it, with the winds predominantly from the east May/June then switching S'ly/SW'ly later in July & into August.

I remember June being day after day of cloudless blue sky and nice temps (not too hot)

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Just looking at the sunshine figures for around here as well. March and April total could be the lowest since 2001. Could be close to 2018 though so at least the least sunny for 5 years and possibly end up for over 20 years but almost certainly in the the least two sunny total combined for March and April since 1970 !!

That did the trick - sun finally appeared late afternoon and temperature up to warmest of the year at 18.9C

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That did the trick - sun finally appeared late afternoon and temperature up to warmest of the year at 18.9C

Similar here, just not as warm. It's been cloudy most of the day but it's brightened up in the last hour and risen the temperature from 11.4°C to 13.2°C. Better late than never, I suppose.

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Worst week I can ever recall in late April as this catastrophically bad spring just gets even more rank and disgusting. Even the putrid end of April 2014 managed one glorious day on the 28th.

The first half was horrific with temperatures at winter levels with feeble showers of rain, hail and even snow. The second half has been a league below that. Completely sunless since Wednesday afternoon with vile slate grey skies and near constant drizzle that has amounted to very little. Unspeakably bad and as far from springlike as it's possible to get 🤬🤬

After this completely foul and unusable week you would think the weekend could only get better but no another horror on the way with ridiculous winter temperatures and excrutiating grey skies. As if that wasn't draining and demoralising enough the torture looks set to continue with an utterly crap first week of May that looks like taking inspiration from 1983 🤮🤮🤮

Really it's plumbing depths that even summers 2007 and 2012 didn't sink to at this stage with weekend after weekend of cold sunless rubbish . One passable Saturday and no acceptable Sundays the entirety of March and April. Not even a part of the day that's okay. Grey and cold poison all day long every single weekend like nothing I've ever known in my life.

Spring 1993 was the worst spring I can remember and it was like heaven compared to this unusable mind-numbing write-off. Orkney has been warmer and sunnier than here. That's how ridiculous it is 😒

The year without a spring. Just a continuation of winter temperatures but with less sunshine 🤢

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Extremely concerning those temperatures failed to go over 16C and only 7 weeks left to the longest day.  Very tired of wearing winter clothing near May.  The SSW had severely destroyed 2 out of 3 month of normal Spring climatology average.  In Spring you expect occasion warm spells to be included as it heading to summer season, all had failed.  Mostly cold to average days.   Average March warmest day 18C, 23C in April and 28C in May.  First 2 failed so far and what May have in store?  February was the best month for this year, warmer indoor temps, milder days, lot of sunshine and much welcome less rainfall.

I'd be interested to read more about this 2023 SSW event, in which the UK has never really recovered from so far this Spring. Do you/anyone have any links to articles on this, please?

Nice Bank Holiday weather tomorrow with a forecast high of 7°C. Getting a bit silly now.

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In contrast, got up to 17/18c here in Galway today. Nothing that unusual for late April, but what is unusual (for the time of year) is the high humidity and Dps  that came with it. 

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In contrast, got up to 17/18c here in Galway today. Nothing that unusual for late April, but what is unusual (for the time of year) is the high humidity and Dps  that came with it. 

Yup, same here - 17.9C was the high, and the dewpoint has been in double figures all day long.

Felt more like a cool July day than a late April one!

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I'd be interested to read more about this 2023 SSW event, in which the UK has never really recovered from so far this Spring. Do you/anyone have any links to articles on this, please?

SSW is a nasty piece of weather work that we should not hope for in 2024.  SSW in 2018 ended in April as it switched to hot summer runs non stop.  2019 and 2020 was not much affected but 2021 was the worst one as it took to last week of May so hope not a repeat this year.  SSW can get lost and dont come back again , do it In late November.

Thursday 27th was dreadful!

+9 to +10c with heavy rain all day and felt like January, so had to turn heating on.

Rained all day until 6 or 7pm before drizzle.

At least milder and more spring like today (Friday) maxed at 16 or 17c with bright spells

 

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Yet another day of poisonous soul-destroying 💩

The 6th completely sunless day of this godforsaken disaster of an April which equals 2012. I wonder if tomorrow can make it 7 and equal 2014.

Never recorded more than three consuectutive fully sunless days before between April and August, not even in 2007 and 2012 so that'll be another new low reached if it happens which looks likely as this vile permacast is just sitting there refusing to budge while there is acres of clear skies to the north that the Orkneys are sitting in once again while we endure their fetid climate 👺

Also looks certain to join 2012, 2016 and 2017 as the ludicrous 4th April in just 12 years to have a final week with a mean max below 9C when the average is 12C. That is the same number as there were in the previous 50 years which speaks volumes about the horrific month of relentless nasty chilly easterly nothingness April is becoming. Devoid of warmth, devoid of convection, devoid of variety and interest. Just the same relentless grey year after year interspersed with a block of stupidly clear days, to give the illusion of average sunshine, like nothing we ever used to get before.

No chance of even reaching 15C this month so an unprecedented third April on the trot to fail to hit 16C. It's beyond dreadful. This is what the average April extreme maximum by decade now looks like for Dyce:

1950s: 17.0
1960s: 17.7
1970s: 16.2
1980s: 17.6
1990s: 18.3
2000s: 17.2
2010s: 17.6
2020s: 15.4 🤢😲

Absolute filth. There really was more genuine warmth around in the 60s. The only reason the means were lower is because when you got a cold max it would be accompanied by a frost and not the mild nights that even well below average days now come with now😴

1970, 1978, 1983 and 1985 were the only years between 1961 and 2011 to have a final week of April this cold. I'll put money on none of those years seeing 18-20C in the south of England at the same time. It will have been below average there as well because this insufferable crap of there being a greater gradient between there and here than you would expect between here and the south of France is purely a 21st Century phenomenon. Yet any time I go there I get weather akin to the Falklands 🤢😡

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Thursday 27th was dreadful!

+9 to +10c with heavy rain all day and felt like January, so had to turn heating on.

Rained all day until 6 or 7pm before drizzle.

At least milder and more spring like today (Friday) maxed at 16 or 17c with bright spells

 

Nasty SSW did that for your area yesterday.   SSW had already destroyed 2 out of 3 Spring month and can't see any end of it.  Many posters in NW wanted the SSW but not realising is a Spring killer.

Once again Cyprus is the place to be this month, very active weather from warm to hot, then sudden cold weather with snow in Troodos, hail storms in the west and lot of rain and thunder, then got hot again to 34.5C in Nicosia follow by sharp drop and again snow and hail cover in Troodos yesterday with water spouts in coastal area..  That what I call it weather, UK had no weather at all.

Days like this are so frustrating! The showers/rain over North West England merged together to ruin most of the morning and afternoon here, only to start clearing now. It's bad enough when the day is ruined, but for the sun to come out around tea time or later just adds insult to injury.

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