There has been nothing remotely springlike about this May. Nothing at all.
The weather has been significantly better since Tuesday with lots of sunshine but it doesn't feel like May more like August or September. It's been breezy and unsettled with horrid mild nights that don't belong in May.
We have just been fortunate that almost all the rain since Tuesday has fallen during the night leaving plenty sunshine during the day. Not the case with Western Scotland which continues to record horror levels of sunshine in the one month that can usually be relied on to be decent. Stuck around the 50 hour mark. Most places wouldn't see such appalling levels in their dullest month. Welcome to Hell on Earth
I thought I was very unlucky to get the atrocious rubbish I endured in the Highlands last May but I am so glad I have not been there over the past week when it has been even worse. Used to be that you would have to get lucky to experience good weather in the Highlands now it seems you have to be lucky to get anything remotely near normal. This horror sure has hell isn't.
Back to the October garbage today. Hideous double digit min of 10.5C but still only 12.3C under overcast skies and a stiff breeze. Nasty cold feeling rubbish that is just typical of the 21st Century. Most sub-5C nights at this time of year would likely lead to warmer temperatures by this stage of the day.
Spring should be a time for high diurnal ranges, cool nights and warm days not this repugnant autumnal crap. Heading for a new record mean min with just one night colder than average all month
On 7.9C which is over 2C above average yet as far as day temperatures go it has failed to reach 20C something cold Mays like 1965, 1979 and 2012 all did with ease.
Running 12-month mean min must be on course to hit a new record by the end of July because all we seem to have been subjected to since then is relentless above average temperatures which will surely end as we enter the one season where below average temperatures always mean crap weather
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