Someone posted this link the other day

And yet the Meto forecast for here tomorrow says dry with plenty of sunny spells 

Sunday and Monday don’t look amazing, but after that it improves with temps around 70f, and I’m off work next week 

No it doesn't!

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Tomorrow shaping up to be a decent day now

Yet another weekend I can't even be bothered to get out of bed. The most demoralsing, unhealthy, soul destroying, zero quality of life hellhole on the planet 🤮

9C, damp, murky sunless. How can this utter crap be expected to be tolerated weekend after weekend? Can't even remember the last time I woke to sunshine on a weekend. Similarly can't recall the last time the May Holiday weekend, which often used to deliver fine weather, was anything other than a complete write-off. First weekend of November now produces better weather on average.

There were only 22 completely sunless spring weekend days between 2007 and 2018. Since 2019 there has been 24 with 12 so far in 2023 and 2024, the most revolting pair of springs within living memory. For May alone there were only eight sunless weekend days between 2007 and 2022. Last year had a breathtakingly awful four and today looks like being another one to get 2024 off to the worst possible start 🤬

This year is just so bad that it's pretty much beyond salvation already. What could we get that could possible make up for this garbage on top of all the rest of the near unremitting poison endured in recent years? All it does is keep getting worse and worse.

The best season of the year now reduced to the worst. I'm struggling to recall any season as bad as this. It's just one kick in the teeth after another. I keep thinking I must wake up and find the past 20 months have been a dream but even the worst nightmares aren't this scary. A staggeringly horrific run of miserable wet, weekend curse laden horror that just won't relent.

To make matters worse today it's going to be 23C and sunny in Stockholm whereas when I go there I have more nuclear winter conditions to look forward to 🤢 Forecast to be in single digits on Wednesday with cloud and drizzle and barely any better for the whole of the week I am there with not a single day looking to reach average and hardly any sun despite the daily average being 9 hours. Yet again I ask myself what I've done to deserve this relentless crap. No escaping from the Faeroe Islands dross 🤬🤬🤬🤬

And that’s exactly what we got. Mainly sunny and warm. Cracking day. Tomorrow doesn’t look too bad either 

Look like the prediction for very poor BH weekend weather had been downgraded for a change this time that give many of us better today and warmer after yesterday cold wet day.  

Another completely sunless day yesterday and still the hell continues today with what is looking to be the incredulous third sunless Sunday in a row. Yet again it's just off the scale. Only roughly 1 in 15 chance of a sunless day at this time of year so the probability of three sunless Sundays in a row is so infinitesimally small it just shouldn't be happening 🤢

1993 would have been the worst spring I could remember until now. This year and last year have made that grim spring look appealing by comparison. Even May 2021 which seemed about as bad a May as it was possible to get looks good compared to May 2023 and May 2024. 

It's just astounding the relentless crap weather and unspeakably depressing blanket of cloud that just sits there day after day. There has now been 38 sunless days across the two springs and just one more needed to equal the record set in 1983/84 which looks like it could be achieved today.

I have checked the diabolical 1920s and 1930s springs and even they did not have a putrid pairing with more sunless days. 1936/37 appears to be the worst with the same total as 1983/84 which almost certainly will be smashed by 2023/24.

In my records going back to 2007 the most sunless days in the first half of a year was 33 in 2010. That had already been beaten by the end of April this year with 34. May has now had two so that's 36 - just one less than the total for the whole of 2020 🤬

Even the grimmest of Novembers offer more than this utterly vile spring. The blizzards of April 1975 were also leagues above anything this putrid season has produced. At least that would have been an interesting and memorable weather event to live through in complete contrast to the horrifyingly dull, uninteresting and unpleasant grot we are forced to endure constantly nowadays that holds no appeal whatsoever from any conceivable viewpoint 🤮

Only speaking from the perspective of my own location but those stats you quote are pretty good in comparison to here this Spring. Very dull and oddly humid season here so far with sunshine being a relatively rare spectacle. Not the biggest fan of sunshine myself, but I sort of need a spell of it now to help dry out the garden and get the knee high grass cut. 

It's not to bad today though with more broken skies allowing some sunshine in at times. 

Good post

Tomorrow (today) looks very usable too

The rest of the week looks superb for here too. 

https://www.eastsidecottages.co.uk/pentland-hills-webcam 

Click on the link to see another Edinburgh Spring day. It really is the worst I have known. May is turning out just like the horrible March and April.

It's the lack of sunlight that is so depressing at what can be a lovely time of year. We still have the heating on and even our lamps on in the late afternoon gloom.

The garden is a bedraggled colourless mess. A lot of the bulbs and perennials that would normally have flowered by now, haven't appeared and I'm not sure they will. 

I keep hoping at the start of each week things will improve but today it is gloomy and wet and expected to be 13 C. Tomorrow cloudy and damp 12 C 🤢

All being well the latter part of this week is looking very pleasant. Hopefully. 

According to the 1991-2020 averages, May is actually the sunniest month of the year on average at Edinburgh Gogarbank despite the fact that we're still more than a month away from the summer solstice as I write.

By the end of today, we will be almost a whole week into May (we will only be short of that by a day) and yet, we have only had a total of 11.6 hours of sunshine during this month which is only 6.1% of the 1991-2020 May average and yet at this time of the year, we should be capable of getting more than that in just a single day.

In addition to that, just the measly total of 0.2 hours of sunshine were recorded over the entire weekend which has just passed with Saturday being completely sunless.

Yet, we have now entered into what should be the lightest period of the year. This is therefore, the very time of year when we really need to be getting some decent sunshine totals if this entire year is to have any chance of being sunnier than average overall.

As I write though, we still haven't had a sunnier than average month here since January, a time of year when that actually adds very little to overall total for the entire year due to that month coming just after the winter solstice.

This means that unless we get a change to a much sunnier pattern of weather very soon, this year is already looking odds on to be duller than average and that is before we have even got to the halfway point in the year.🤢

The Weekend Curse has just been ludicrous for 18 months now but if you added in all the vile public holidays it would look even worse. Can't remember the last decent one or even partly decent one. It's just endless wrist-slitting grey every single day off. No better than a life of slavery if you are never getting any enjoyment out of life. Constantly denied the ability to do the things you want to do. Trapped like a prisoner in the house. I cannot emphasise how much I despise living here with no quality of life whatsoever 🤬

I didn't think it was possible to get the vile horrific car crash of a May Holiday Weekend we were forced to endure last year but this year is just the same if not worse. Three days of horrific, beyond depressing grey clag that won't shift. Two years on the trot looking like producing fewer than 2 hours of sun across the three days. You just couldn't make it up. This is supposed to be the sunniest month of the year but it's just turned into a complete disaster over the past decade. We finally got rid of the permacast hell Junes but all it did was transfer to May to ruin this month year after year 🤬

It's so ridiculous that even early November hasn't been this consistently awful despite being a terrible month since 2018. Only one year in the past decade has seen under 2 hours sun for the first Monday of the month plus the preceeding weekend. The best month of the year reduced to being worse than the worst year after year.

A nightmare that just keeps on intensifying with each month of rotten stinking crud that passes. There is nothing decent in the outlook at all. Just more horrifically wet garbage according to this http://wxmaps.org/pix/prec4  which seems to show a Scandinivian High developing but not in time to rescue my holiday in Sweden which is looking beyond horrific with stupefyingly low temperatures forecast for my arrival on Wednesday afternoon. Just one kick in the teeth after another 🤮🤮🤮

Couldn't stand looking at it any longer so broke out the flymo yesterday evening. Grass and soil so wet it stank to high heaven of putrified rain water as I cut, not to mention that a lot of the grass was readily pulled up from the roots by the lawnmower. This is typically the driest period of the year for here, but drying is as poor as it is in December. 

Every year between 2007 and 2013, except 2010, managed at least 20 hours whereas this has now been reached only once since 2014 demonstrating just how poor a month May has become since then. Even the rotten 2010 holiday was better than any of the past three repugnant offerings which are so far from acceptable it's beyond surreal.

May Holiday Weekend Sunshine

2024 (4-6 May): 1.1 🤢🤢

2023 (29 Apr – 1 May): 1.7🤢🤢

2022 (30 Apr – 2 May): 8.1🤢

2021 (1-3 May): 15.1

2020 (8-10 May): 13.8

2019 (4-6 May): 18.3

2018 (5-7 May): 23.5😎

2017 (29 Apr – 1 May): 6.0🤢

2016 (30 Apr – 2 May): 19.7

2015 (2-4 May): 17.1

2014 (3-5 May):13.4

2013 (4-6 May): 28.1😎

2012 (5-7 May): 20.0

2011 (30 Apr – 2 May): 34.9😎😎

2010 (1-3 May): 9.8🤢

2009 (2-4 May):21.1

2008 (3-5 May): 23.5😎

2007 (5-7 May): 27.0😎

At the time the 2007-12 period seemed like a truly dire era due to the worst run of summers in recorded history. At least we had good springs and even some good winters. What the hell do we have now? Absolutely nothing. The winters are the pits, the springs are the equivalent of the 2007-12 summers, the summers are nowhere near as bad as then but still not great and autumns are as hideous as ever. The decade with nothing to offer. That is the 2020s 🙄🤬

Almost totally dry, a fair bit of sunshine, decent temps.

Given through most of last week the forecast was for lots of showers, it worked out very well.

Yes all under low pressure but seem today this pest HP might be cloudy one like today totally over cast skies against sunny forecast from today onward.

Looks like we've got each other's forecast conditions. It was supposed to be pretty cloudy today but it's ended up mainly sunny. Very similar to Sunday & Monday.