Back to utter garbage again today, rain and permacast hell, cold at 12c. I booked today off as well which makes it 100 times worse !!!

Originally the cloud and gunk was well over to the West, Irish sea and clipping Wales.Anyway as usual the reality is different. The picture on the front of this website should be changed for North,East,West,South and the picture depicting each area. As it does no justice to the muck that we presently have here. Gloucestershire the New Outer Hebrides

Chose May to go to the Highlands because I thought that was the one month where I wouldn't experience nuclear winter conditions. Couldn't have been more wrong with that.

At least the wee beasties should have been quiet

Sunny here, back to the rain next Wednesday.

But then it is a different season and different month.

Yet another day of putrid cold grey murky garbage 

 

 

Yadda yadda yadda whatever. Every single month/season/year seems to be the worst forever for you.

But you quietly forget the good times, like the April just gone that was the sunniest on record in Aberdeen.

The North Sea spoils it for us northeasterners in late Spring/ Early Summer. Its cold and dull here. Heating on!
Hope for something brighter later but i don't share the forecasters optimism just now!

I still think that the weather over the next few days will be good enough for you to enjoy an outdoor lunch, though.

In any case, we are also coming out of lockdown now which means that you can now visit most other parts of the UK as well. Glasgow is still in a level 3 lockdown and is one place which we can't go to for now, but you will be able to go those favourite spots in the Lake District and other parts of England which you like to visit, and it is starting to look as though there could be some decent weather coming up in those locations as he head into the meteorological summer.

 

I still think that the weather over the next few days will be good enough for you to enjoy an outdoor lunch, though.

In any case, we are also coming out of lockdown now which means that you can now visit most other parts of the UK as well. Glasgow is still in a level 3 lockdown and is one place which we can't go to for now, but you will be able to go those favourite spots in the Lake District and other parts of England which you like to visit, and it is starting to look as though there could be some decent weather coming up in those locations as he head into the meteorological summer.

Good job nobody in their right mind would come to Bolton for a holiday anyway. The Sturgeon has banned it as we are all disease ridden down here, a town full of lepers according to the national media.

Lovely end to spring down here with the first 21c since 30th March and the first time in god knows how long the central heating hasn`t had to go on either day or night.

As its now the end of spring i would say this has been the most diabolical spring season since the 1986,utterly awful and until a couple of days ago has been more like an extended winter, except for 3 days at end of March it has been either freezing cold and or wet/windy.

This spring deserves no more than 1/10 utterly abyismal.

This spring has been rusty spring weather. Not liked at all. 

We've just managed to avoid March having the warmest day of spring after Kinloss hit 24.6c beating the March high of 24.5c at Kew Gardens

That's rather disappointing really. That would have made for quite a statistic.

Glad the season and the month change after today.

We've just managed to avoid March having the warmest day of spring after Kinloss hit 24.6c beating the March high of 24.5c at Kew Gardens

Kinlochewe in the NW Highlands reached 25.1°C. Here in this part of the east it didn’t reach 13°C.

What a surprise heat and sunshine in the Highlands now that I have returned but more of the same putrid well below average easterly GARBAGE here.

Even once the filth cleared it could get no higher than 12.7C and with a nagging wind all afternoon it was totally unacceptable for the last day of Spring. The rather cool April high pressure felt far warmer because at least the wind wasn't as bad.

16.8C was the highest temperature I recorded this month. Utterly DISGUSTING. It's the sort of monthly maximum that would be expected in Shetland where it is impossible to get any wind off the land. The same is true here now 

The warmest temperature of this rancid spring was a truly awful 17.3C back on 29th March and that was a windy day with only 5.6 hours of sun little of which seemed to coincide with the only part of the day I could get out. 5th November 2020 and 27th February 2021 were nicer feeling days than just about anything this poxy spring could manage.

The monthly mean temperature was 8.2C - only 1996 was colder since 1968 and in the past 100 years only 1923 and 1968 were more than 0.2C colder. 

Rainfall was more than twice the average at 103.2mm making it the wettest May since 1997 and the 2nd wettest since 1969.

Sunshine was only 65% of average despite the weekend boost. The total of 131.7 hours made it the dullest since 1983 and the 10th dullest since 1880. 

All adds up to a horror month. Worst May since the record breaker of 1983 for combination of persistently cold, dull and wet misery. 1969 probably the only other unequivocally worse May.

May was the longest overdue for a top 10 dull month, the last one having occurred in 1993 (displaced into 11th position now). The longest run without a top 10 dull month is now September, this last having occurred in 1998.

However this pales in comparison to the longest overdue top 10 sunny month which unsurprisingly is the month most associated with permacast hell - June. Nothing in the top 10 since 1970 which means beyond most people's lifetime. No month has deteriorated more or improved at the same rate.

245 hours sun needed for that to happen - so roughly the same surplus required as the deficit for May. More chance of finishing with fewer than 137 hours which would set a new record low for May/June combined. A June as vile as 2007, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 or 2020 would do it so a 60% chance based on the last 5 years 

Tomorrow will see another all time low reached for me. The first time I have ever seen bare trees in June. Unless those which I saw devoid of leaves today suddenly put on a growth spurt overnight which seems unlikely given the cold 8.7C temperature at present