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Why is it so cold?

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Rabbitcar · 02/06/2023 22:59

Anyone wondering this? The weather forecast keeps saying 20/21 degrees, but I’m freezing! It’s windy and cold. I’m in bed now with my electric blanket on, a duvet, fleece blanket and hot water bottle.

I think I’ve felt warmer when it’s been 11 degrees. It’s so windy. I feel like the weather forecast is gaslighting us!

I don’t like this fake summer. When is it actually going to get warm??

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Oioicaptain · 03/06/2023 20:31

I'm glad that I'm not the only one! I'm in the southwest and the wind has been relentless and cold. The breeze is definitely a bit warmer today though. I am feeling almost claustrophobic/hemmed in by it. I want to be outside, but the wind is uncomfortably annoying. It's been constant for ten days now. I've never known it to be this windy for this long. After the non existent spring I need a summer, but this weather is leaving me worried that it's a sign of future summers to come. The weather has been so much more extreme over the last few years. There has been nothing in the news about it and I really don't understand why.

ErrolTheDragon · 03/06/2023 20:40

The weather has been so much more extreme over the last few years. There has been nothing in the news about it and I really don't understand why.

Er... have you not heard of climate change?Confused

hoteltango · 03/06/2023 21:42

I watched a Met Office video on YouTube about this, the other night. From what I remember: There's a high pressure system in the north Atlantic, at about the same level as northern Scotland. It's quite a deep high pressure, and it's blocked by the jet stream which is dipping down to the east of Scotland. That means that the clockwise winds from the high pressure system are bringing down cold air from the Arctic to the eastern side of the country, while the temperatures from the high pressure system are keeping the western side quite warm.

It's interesting, because the "normal" weather pattern for the UK is a north/south divide, but here it's a west/east divide.

It'll all change in a couple of weeks time anyway, because it's the Trooping of the Colour on the 17th, so it's bound to rain then.

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coffeecupsandwaxmelts · 03/06/2023 22:25

Oioicaptain · 03/06/2023 20:31

I'm glad that I'm not the only one! I'm in the southwest and the wind has been relentless and cold. The breeze is definitely a bit warmer today though. I am feeling almost claustrophobic/hemmed in by it. I want to be outside, but the wind is uncomfortably annoying. It's been constant for ten days now. I've never known it to be this windy for this long. After the non existent spring I need a summer, but this weather is leaving me worried that it's a sign of future summers to come. The weather has been so much more extreme over the last few years. There has been nothing in the news about it and I really don't understand why.

Global warming, maybe? Wink

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Rabbitcar · 04/06/2023 07:36

Thanks for the scientific explanations!

It was actually occasionally a bit warm yesterday, so ☀. I see the forecast is 26 C and less windy next weekend, so I’m feeling cautiously optimistic. ☀

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