Had it not been for the memorable snowfall April 2012 would easily have been the worst April ever recorded here. So far this suicide inducing April is exactly like 2012 minus the memorable snowfall
Ridiculously awful crap day in day out. Not a single remotely decent day. Two days of mild crud and the rest cold crud. Utterly revolting and it keeps getting worse and worse.
At least last weekend, while cold, the winds were light and mornings sunny so I could get out. Full blown horror now with that hideous wind and stupefying amounts of rain. Already had close to the full monthly average and what I woke up to on Thursday was unbelievable. 2C, pouring rain and windy. Just horrific.
Today is yet another day I won't be able to get on the bike. 3C and windy. Can hardly bear walking in this rubbish never mind cycling. Every single month since July, except January, I've cycled fewer miles than the equivalent month one year earlier. The fact that most of those months in 2020/21 were rubbish bears testimony as to how putrid conditions have been over the past 9 months. Ludicrously uninuteresting and unpleasant.
It's absolutely sickening. Tedious and predictable in the extreme. Year in year out we get a hopeless snowless frostless winter only to be greeted with this repulsive vomit in April. Early April now the most reliable time of the year for horrible cold rubbish.
The weather is so awful with the relentless wind, cloud and rain that, unlike last year, there has just been one pitiful frost of -0.5C. So far the highest April minimum since 2014. Highest temperature a dreadful 11.9C, accompanied by a strong wind to make it feel even cooler. No sign of even modest warmth. Could be the first time in almost 100 years that successive Aprils both fail to reach 15C
Outside it looks as dead and bleak as mid-winter. At least in late February and early March the crocuses added a splash of colour. Unlike last year many of the daffodils are yet to bloom and combined with the completely bare trees it's just horrifically depressing. Apart from the brief warm spell in late March, which saw 14-16C for a week, it's been exactly the same 5-10C rubbish for the best part of 5 months
The preposterous levels of sunshine during the first three months, which was completely wasted due to the cold, wind and dark evenings had me really concerned about a repeat of 2012 and these worries have accelerated over the past week. All of January, February, March had sunshine above the 90th percentile. I wonder which three months will come in below the 10th percentile to cancel that out
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