We need to come to terms that UK climate had gone worst and lost 3 seasons for good now. Autumn all year around are going to be like that for good and  need to survive this nasty climate change. Having the conservatory built next month not  for fun but to use for drying my washing clothes so no more outside due to aggressive daily rain and warmth for the house as summers getting colder and wet.  For sure France and rest of EU will continue warm to hot with lot of sunshine.

Not all of France my friend!! We had one of the wettest years ever in 2023 in Correze in Central France (2021mm of rain in our commune!!) 2024 has been pretty poor so far. Last week we had a few days of spring like warmth, but most of the rest of this year has been awful. Cool and wet. Mostly cloudy and overcast. France's climate is deteriorating just as rapidly as the UK's. We have lived here since 2014, so ten years this October and it has seriously gone downhill. Spring is my favourite season but they have mainly been awful, with a few exceptions (2020). Last summer and 2021 were both washouts, with nights as cool as 8 degrees in August!

We are living through climate collapse. 
 

Since returning from holiday last Friday, I’ve managed to dry all my washing outside.  No need for the conservatory or tumble dryer.  We’ve had rain but mostly at night and the warm sunshine and breeze has been perfect for drying out on the line.  

The flooding from heavy and frequent rain over the past few months has taken its toll on farming though.   Where fields are being ploughed and drilled, large patches of waterlogged low lying ground is being left uncultivated.  I wonder what this will do to food prices later in the year.  Lincolnshire has the same problem and they’re a big producer of vegetables. 

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I hope you had a good cruise Caz.

Anyway, back to the UK it’s probably similar here in Dorset regards cultivations. The soil here tends to be light over chalk or gravel and thus free draining but there are still areas of fields with waterlogging. Some of this is perhaps due to poor previous cultivations creating a hard pan. I don’t know of course because I’m not the farmer. The local salad producer has yet to begin cultivation because of the soil water saturation. The obsession with building houses on prime agricultural land continues but slowed over the winter because of the wet. Long/medium term impacts on food security? No problem as we can import our food needs say our Govt. However, a line of new houses for sale nearby show no sales since sometime last year. An indicator of the poor state of the economy perhaps.

Washing and Drying. Almost time to get the rotary line out now that the sun reaches this part of the back garden. I have though been known to dry laundry in the shed, which reaches dizzying Jirian highs of 40C + on occasion in high summer. But I’m sure I will be back here moaning about the lack of good growing weather in due course, either because of a lack of rain or the continued deluge.
Nick

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This weather is beyond tiresome now, and there's just no sign of a proper improvement from the models yet. We really are due a long spell of high pressure now and hopefully it will time perfectly for late spring and summer.

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We went to Anglesey for a day out today. The A55 has some lovely views along it anyway, but today there was snow capping several of the taller Snowdonia mountains. Could also see them from where we were at Llanddwyn (a few nice pics taken)

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Yet another Holiday Monday of revolting, suicide-inducing write-off ridiculously cold, grey, drizzly and windy easterly rubbish. Time after time we have a hideous weekend only for Monday to be sunny. Pretty much the only rime it's crap is when its a holiday 🤬

The horror just rolls on with month after month of unadulterated garbage. Totally rank, grey, dull, wet March with hideous temperatures more akin to November. No frost since the 4th and only two in total which is the lowest I've ever recorded. At the same time the monthly max was a pathetic 13.8C which tied with 2020 as the lowest since 2013. Utterly abysmal low diurnal ranges most of the time. The precise opposite of what spring should be bringing 🙄

April has been a truly awful month in recent years stuffed full of repellent easterly muck with single figure maxes and slate grey skies abound. Can't even get cool showery NW'lies any more. Just horrid grey easterly dross. Anything interesting or pleasant replaced by the worst possible junk. It's unreal that we are looking at yet another poisonous month with an E/SE anomaly which pretty every single month has had since September 2022. Awful excruitiating and dangerously unpleasant filth 🤮🤮🤮

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Today’s a bit rubbish but thankfully the weekend was glorious.

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I'm glad we had a sunny weekend otherwise I would be so fed up!!

It's horrendous in the capital today, I feel so sorry for the tourists trudging around in this freezing wind blowing sheets of rain off a slate grey sea. It has been the same all day and has only reached 6 C. Yuk 🤢

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I'm glad we had a sunny weekend otherwise I would be so fed up!!

It's horrendous in the capital today, I feel so sorry for the tourists trudging around in this freezing wind blowing sheets of rain off a slate grey sea. It has been the same all day and has only reached 6 C. Yuk 🤢

Yes and after looking at the official forecasts for the week ahead, that isn't looking good either with low pressure to our SW continuing to throw weather systems right across the UK and Ireland throughout this week and even into next weekend as well.

According  to the law of averages, you would think that we would at least be able to get some decent weather at some point in time but according to the latest forecasts, there's just no sign of that whatsoever just now.🤢

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According  to the law of averages, you would think that we would at least be able to get some decent weather at some point in time but according to the latest forecasts, there's just no sign of that whatsoever just now.🤢

The average is properly calculated geographically, i.e. between Scottish weather and the south of England, 6C and rain for you, 15 C and sun for me - even got the washing dry outside this afternoon. 😛

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The average is properly calculated geographically, i.e. between Scottish weather and the south of England, 6C and rain for you, 15 C and sun for me - even got the washing dry outside this afternoon. 😛

I washed the bed sheets with me and my wife winter jackets to put away as now April and i following what the season should be.  First time I put some outside in the sun and the last to put outside, they got dry before nasty unwelcome rain showers.  Can't wait to use the Conservatory as it will be a lot useful on this wetter spring and summer cold climate we heading to permanent now. 

 

I washed the bed sheets with me and my wife winter jackets to put away as now April and i following what the season should be.  First time I put some outside in the sun and the last to put outside, they got dry before nasty unwelcome rain showers.  Can't wait to use the Conservatory as it will be a lot useful on this wetter spring and summer cold climate we heading to permanent now. 

 

It may be wetter but even you can’t deny it is warmer over recent years surely?

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I  and summer cold climate we heading to permanent now. 

 

The 'coldest' summers Ive ever lived through have always been too warm! You must have a  very high tolerance for heat, Jires. Anything beyond 20c and i whither. 14c to 17c day time summer temps are perfect for me. 

 

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Another rubbish week to come around here by the looks of it. Even Friday and Saturday's "warm push" is looking like it will just be a wet and windy washout too...

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Just watched the national and local weather for the next few days. Like today it's dull with cold rain for Tues and Wed and around 7 C!! A nagging NE wind throughout. Thurs & Fri, more of the same. It's lashing with rain here as it has been all day!!

A group of us are staying in a castle in Perthshire for the next few days, thank god it's got real fires for this eternal winter!! Doesn't look like we'll be hillwalking 😡

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It may be wetter but even you can’t deny it is warmer over recent years surely?

No it not getting warmer, if was the case due to false CET then why there no AC units being install on each house by now?  It getting colder period with only short heat spikes instead of prolonged average to warm days.

No it not getting warmer, if was the case due to false CET then why there no AC units being install on each house by now?  It getting colder period with only short heat spikes instead of prolonged average to warm days.

Is this Donald Trump in disguise? (That's the sort of thing which he would say)🤣🤣🤣

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Practically every CET figure recently has been above average!

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Practically every CET figure recently has been above average!

But still AC units not fitted on each house to prove that UK getting warmer? Cyprus show both night and day temps getting warmer while here night temps rise as day temps decreased so that fool anyone thinking UK is getting warmer.  Last proper warming was summer 2018.

It’s been a decent bank holiday here.  Friday was Ok, Saturday was warm and sunny all day.  We had rain at night and early Sunday but on the whole it was warm with long sunny spells. Monday started drizzly but soon cleared and the afternoon was warm and sunny, ending with a spectacular thunder storm in the evening. 

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