OMG the weather

[MidnightPatrol]

It’s May next week. The longest day of the year in seven weeks.

It’a currently 8 degrees and raining.

I am still wear my winter wardrobe.

This must be the worst spring on record. Where is the sun.

I am past being upset or depressed, just damn right furious! Can't do the spring clean even. Normally, I would wash all the heavy household textiles and air them outside, which was not possible until now, and does not look possible still. I swear there was not a single dry day this year! We get sunny spells daily as it is so windy on the coast, but those are so short-lived! Absolutely not enough to dry a heavy woven throw or a dog bed. And it rains about five times a day anyway, not always a proper downpour, but that permanent piss spray suspended in the air does not leave much for gardening or anything. Ugh.

Yes, that seems be forecast in London, thank God.

'Spring' 2013 was like this and I think for similar reason - big area of low pressure blocking warmer airflow and bringing in cold air from the far North. Hopefully it's sodding off and I can turn the heating off totally next week.

I've had pie filling on my coat for 2 weeks because I need the coat and can't get it dry quick enough while it's so cold and damp haha

April is usually really mixed. In 2021 I have photos of at least 1cm snow in SE England on 12th April followed by sunshine and shorts weather a couple of weeks later

We don't turn the heating on and off as it is thermostatically controlled. It hasn't not come on yet because it has been so cold.

I’ve managed to get a bit sunburnt today. It was raining this morning but this afternoon was glorious.

Yes, I remember that. We decided to go touring/,camping for 2 weeks. East of England - rain. North East - rain. Highlands of Scotland - rain. Glasgow - rain. Lake District - rain. Buxton - really sunny. Not really, it rained. We came home 5 days early as we couldn't take any more.

Yes, I’ll waste my energy on someone being fucking obtuse.

Yes and wasn't October unseasonably warm, parts anyway?

Fair enough - I shouldn’t have wasted my energy on someone who can’t write a coherent fucking point 🤷🏼‍♀️

Well, that escalated quickly.

On a good note, the rain stopped and I could trudge around my garden a bit in the late evening.

Another awful cold, wet day here. I'm wearing thermal leggings and a thick jumper 🙄

North America? It's become so dystopian there.

I dont know why this made me laugh.🤣

Here's a headline from the Guardian:

‘Washout winter’ spells price rises for UK shoppers with key crops down by a fifth

Are people still going to say it's all as expected and lovely?

Not our imagination then…https://news.stv.tv/scotland/sean-batty-insight-a-cooler-wetter-april-but-whats-in-store-for-the-rest-of-spring

In fairness, that poster saying she enjoys rain doesn’t make it any more or less likely to rain. I love crisp, sunny September weather but it was boiling last September.

Yes, I know for a fact that this crap weather is purely down to us buying some smart new garden furniture this year. I swear the second I clicked Purchase the sky started to cloud over and hasn't cleared since. It's all still in the garage wrapped up, absolutely no point putting it out in the garden. Maybe next year? x

We bought a new, reduced BBQ at the end of season in September 2022. We got it home and it began to drizzle. I think we've used it about 3 times since.

It's not so much that this April has been unusually awful in isolation; it's a very mixed month that can be beautiful, but can also have anything going including snow. It's the fact that it's seamlessly followed the cool, grey wet pattern that we've had near relentlessly since July last year. We've already had the wettest 12 months on record, and it's still above averagely wet.

My local parkrun has been a mud-pit for 6 months. Another one still has black dead patchs of dead grass after months of standing water after October's floods. I've got mud on the roof of my car from trying to park in an open field for an event yesterday because of the 12 hours of torrential rain.

More critically, the local fields I run through have huge swathes where the crops haven't grown because of the constant saturation, and there seems to be more fallow fields than usual- presumably the farmers have missed their windows for a crop cycle or not taken the risk of poor returns for an intended crop.

Quality outdoor clothing does not solve all weather issues!

Quality outdoor clothing does not solve all weather issues!

Exactly.

This is a worrying read. Wheat crops expected to be down by 40% this year, 40% 😱
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0x0d0zxpnqo

The BBC long range forecast doesn’t hold out any hope for better weather before June, more rain, low temperatures or barely at average in sight.
May isn’t going to be any better than what we have been having 😵‍💫🤬

Yes I looked at the long range for my area (Gloucestershire), the same weather as now until end of May 😱

It seems to be improving here this week, 18 degrees today but lots of rain forecast on Friday.

Rainy and grey here in S Wales and looks to be the same for at least the rest of the week. When will it end?? April showers I can deal with but it's the constant grey...🙄