I along with anyone with any sensible brain knows that it would be stupid to already be writing off summer before we even get to that time of the year but given the change in weather pattern which is being predicted, I still wouldn't put it past anyone on here to end up already be posting their "summer is over" posts on here as a result.

As a result, I would be interested to hear from others about their predictions for when they would likely to expect those first "summer is over" posts to start appearing on this forum. 

Been a great Spring so far with this and wearing short daily to evening now tonight is much warmer so still wearing it.  More of those please as we still need to catch up very low supply of sun in the last couple of years.  Last time was 2018 so hope a repeat this year.

Today weather is what I want to see in the summer at low 30's which is UK standard past summer heatwave that come with sunshine days.  No thanks to cloudy heat spikes of 35-40C and hope not to see this year.

Seems like this horrific season is trying to score the worst ever Weekend Curse but it needn't bother trying because 2023 was so bad it can't be beaten.

A monstrously vile lump of cloud has formed and is just sitting there once again giving the feeling that this crap is being engineered. Certainly no rational explanation as to why this unadulterated garbage has gone on for nearly 2 1/2 years.

Another detestable spring from hell in another detestable year from hell. Life here truly is the absolute pits. A never ending endurance.

Yet another absolutely vile, grim and depressing weekend of mind-numbing, ugly, energy sapping, miserably cold, grey and tedious easterly grot. It's been utterly horrendous all week. Another shockingly bad excuse for spring.

April used to be one of my favourite months now it is the one I detest the most. Four years of nothing but relentless easterly garbage and crap weekends. None of the variety the month used to produce. April showers are now extinct and it looks like the second April in a row to fail to produce a frost when it used to be practically unheard of to even get one. No hail or snow nor even cumulus formation. Just ghastly featureless crud covering the sky day after day like a bad November.

A struggle to get anything remotely warm as well. 2007 alone produced more days of 15C in April than the entire rotten 2020s decade to date. Apart from the warm spell 10th -12th not a single day in this wretched month has been as warm as Christmas Day. 

When it did reach 21.3C it then dropped to 2.1C the following night. A taste of the high diurnal ranges that used to be a regular feature of spring. Now back to the 21st Century hell with hideous mins of 6-7C followed by days struggling to get out of single digits. Perpetual Autumn.

Even the likes of 2012 had more to recommend it than the past four lousy, gut wrenchingly awful horror shows. Two passable weekends, convection and a memorable snowfall all beat the unrelenting grimness of the past four years which have mustered up nothing positive between them. Just endless easterly filth. A putrid combination of cold days and mild nights like nothing ever seen before. The worst run of Aprils in recorded history.

Do you live in the same Aberdeen as Richard?

His account of April so far is a little more 'downbeat' than yours 🙂

There was a very nice period of weather throughout the school holidays here and it’s been generally pleasant, so that has probably influenced my perceptions.

I guess it has been a bit cloudier at the weekends but not awful. Overall this month has been much drier, sunnier and a bit warmer is my experience and it backed by the stats for the month so far.

Could be better that he change job to do the shift pattern like me?  9-5 jobs is the worst job patttern, you are limited to the weekends and horrible BH weather with crowded cars and plebs around.  Thankfully my job is 4 days on and 4 days off, now i am currently on first fixed 18 days off until 4th May, With my shift pattern i been able to witness lot of sunny days on my off days.  The 4 days work is 2 days day shift and 2 night shift so basically I enjoy any sunny weather 2 during hight shift as I am at home during the day and 4 on off days.  Day shift is the least shift to me but at least 2 days to miss out any sunny weather.

I certainly don't miss having to work on Good Friday and Easter Monday back at my tomato greenhouse working days, that used to depress me. 🤣 Back in the days I hoped for wet weather, that way it was less soul destroying as well as made it more comfortable working under glass. Nowadays, I'm finding myself wishing for fine weather where Spring is now my new favourite time of the year. 

I'm also thinking that the overall weather has been good for crops.

Yes, more of a traditional type of Spring than recent years. Though the six weeks from March through to mid April wasn't great for crops here with almost zero rain but with still plenty of moisture deeper into the soil and two significant rainfalls in the last two weeks allotment is going well for this time of year.

There's three large fields I pass just before I hit the fringes of  the 'Sintellins' housing morass on my commute home. This year they're all planted with rape. I know rape grows quickly, but the transformation over the past couple of weeks (probably ideal mix of sunshine, temperature and occasional rain - but never too heavy) has been staggering. A vision of yellow now.

Assuming we get the same combo of weather - plenty of sunshine, warmer-than-average temps, occasional rain - for the next 3 months (I know, a big assumption!), then I predict a bumper crop.

I also acknowledge that not everywhere in the UK has had the same weather.

The Alyn isn't a big river, certainly not at that stage, averaging around 5m wide and 1-2' deep. The bed is stones and pebbles of varying size. When we went last weekend, long stretches were dry (the water obviously running beneath the stones on the surface) Never seen it like that before, even in summer.

On a side note, there's swathes of wild garlic along its banks. This time of year the smell in pretty pungent. I took a bag this time and brought a lot home. 

I see also yellow rape seeds opening so early this month normally in late May to June period for here.

This April hasn't just been awful. It's been excrutiatingly awful. This past fortnight has been the dullest at this time of year since 2012, as was the Easter Weekend, but it's felt even worse. It's literally the same crap day after day. Not similar - the exact same Groundhog hell. Day after day walking up to the same featureless grey filth and the exact same temperature of 7.8C following a filthy mild night. Then it will struggle to reach 10C as it takes all day for the muck to clear and as soon as it does it rolls in again.

Horrendously unvaried and uninteresting, wrist-slittlingly awful rubbish. So dire that just seeing a cumulus cloud would be thrilling by comparison. This latest atrocity will ensure that this toxic month will finish below 2012 for weekend sunshine meaning that the four worst Aprils for weekend sunshine, in my 19 years of records, have been the last four. You could not make this crap up. The last decent April weekend was 24th/25th in 2021. Don't think anything that horrific even happened during the 2007-12 summers - the worst run of Weekend Curse horror summers in history. We're now enduring the spring equivalent of those. The third disaster spring on the trot.

As we say over here, I wouldn't doubt you🤣

I don't believe anything he says. Every weekend/month/season/year is the worst ever. All the time he seems on the edge of slitting his wrists. He used to be quite funny, I remember one about comparing Aberdeen's climate to that of the Faeroes and eating whale blubber! But he has long since become extremely tedious.

Your ignorance is extremely tedious. I always post stats to back up what I'm saying. There will be more to come to put this month's horrific weekends into context. Why the hell would I bother coming on here to complain about poor weekends and weather if it wasn't happening? Take a look at the satellite image. It's the same every weekend.

Here you go https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/weather/current/EGPD.html  It was exactly the same last weekend, Easter Monday, Sunday 13th and Saturday 5th. Saturday 12th only decent day with 17C and sun and Sunday 6th after the muck burned off but only got to 10C and that is the best on offer.

For as long as there is no variety in the weather, which there isn't any more, there will be no variety in the posts I make complaining about it.

Yep, he moaned about March yet it was drier, warmer and sunnier than average in Aberdeen. No doubt April will follow suit but it'll be the worst Spring ever.

He also goes on a lot about it being duller than ever in his part of the world in certain contexts and yet according to Michael (DoctorMog), this month has actually been sunnier than average overall in Aberdeen which just so happens to be exactly the same city as where he lives (although you wouldn't think so going by how different their reports on here can be at times).

Here in Edinburgh, this month has also been sunnier than average as we have already had more sunshine at Edinburgh Gogarbank than the 1991-2020 April average.

That is good enough for me (though obviously not good enough for Richard) and so far, every month of this year with the exception of February has been sunnier than average and that is in complete contrast to last year when we couldn't even buy a sunnier than average month for most of the time.

I would certainly have no complaints about that but if I did have any complaints, it would be about the ongoing lack of rainfall at the moment.

I know that it's not been as dry here this month as it has been in your neck of the woods as I've seen from your reports in the monthly precipitation threads, but we could still be doing with getting more rain that what we've been getting as we've now been in quite a long run here of constantly drier than average months and that has to end sometimes, otherwise that's not going to be very good in terms of avoiding any possibly water scarcity situations during the summer.

There is one point which Richard makes though, which I do agree with and that is the point about how tedious and boring our weather has become because nearly every day, I can more or less accurately give my day's report on the weekly CC threads just by copying and pasting my report from the previous day because at the end of the day, we just don't get changeable weather any more like to used to.

All of that just gets a bit boring after a while and because of that, I'm finding myself increasingly no longer wanting to post anything on here because there just isn't anything actually happening which is interesting enough for me to post about on here.

March was apparently drier, warmer and sunnier than average yet you were suicidally depressed throughout the entire month. Your reports often contadict Doctor Mog's yet you live in the same city. It simply doesn't stack up.

Not much variety this week either, looking at the MetO raw - just relatively warm with plenty of sunny spells.

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/aber.jpg 

No it's usually starting to flower by end of April even here. Though it's at peak through May.

There was one year we had about a foot of wet snow the last week of April and Rape was flattened by it just as it was opening.