I know the weather has been rubbish, but...

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So we've had quite a pleasant day in West Yorkshire today. It was meant to be rain all day according to the weather app, but it's been delightfully warm in the sun this afternoon/evening (I even got 2 loads of washing dry).

Anyway, I know the weather has been absolutely shite for June, so just wanted to share this image of a cumulus cloud, I think? Could be totally wrong and I'm happy to be corrected, but it just looks like a giant marshmallow in the sky. This photo doesn't do it justice at all.

Whilst the weather might not be what we expect at this moment, we can always find something beautiful in nature.

That's a lovely photo.

But it's been freezing here in the Midlands, with several heavy rain showers throughout the day.

Is raining quite heavily now.

So I am jealous of your sun.

I’m also in WY and we had hailstones a couple of hours ago!

We had heavy rain here this morning near Manchester and I was annoyed because I had checked the forecast yesterday and it had looked mainly dry so I was looking forward to planting some new plants in my patio pots! By late afternoon I noticed that the sun was out and the sky looked like this photo so I put off starting tea and spent two hours outside.

It felt great being outside, cutting back overgrown bushes so my new trough could fit on the patio, filling it with soil and also fastening a lovely willow structure that I made at a craft workshop to the trellis on the trough. I stopped then as it was clouding over and I was getting hungry so hopefully I’ll manage to get the plants in between showers tomorrow.

I have issues with my mobility so have a gardener but I like to look after my patio plants and leave him to do the garden. I’ve still got to tackle the moss that has grown on the side path, never seen it so bad but I can sit down and scrape at it before adding a moss killer so that is my next job. The forecast looks bad for the next ten days or so but I’m just going to take advantages of any brief windows.

Then hopefully, when summer finally arrives, my patio will be a welcoming place. In the papers today, three weather pundits were predicting that the weather will improve by the end of next week - but only in the South, those of us in the N and NW will continue to be cold and wet! But I’m going to try not to moan!

In central Cambridge where it's been almost uniformly grey. We've had long periods of drizzle alternating with similarly long periods of heavy rain for about the past six weeks or so, it seems. May was a complete washout.
It's deeply depressing.

That is a beautiful photo, well captured.

Off to check forecast for today...

I moaned about the weather yesterday but it did get better late afternoon.

@NewName24 thanks. It was like that here on Thursday, totally felt autumnal. Hope you get some decent spells soon, well, I hope everyone does.

@Christ0nABike was that later in the evening? I had an early night so might've missed it. If it was early evening, although I know WY is massive, it is still funny to think how different the weather can be in an area.

@Ihateslugs I'm glad you got some time in the garden, getting it ready for some sun. Hope we get more of it soon and you can enjoy.

Thanks @EatCrow. It was quite breathtaking in real life. Oh, the little things.

@ILoveToCleanSaidNooneEver

Yes! And it’s always nature that brings the gifts.

Call me greedy but can't I want nice pics and more than 1 day so far of decent weather in June? (I'm in southeast/east of England)

Yeah, have to admit it’s really cold here again (11 degrees), gunmetal grey skies and torrential rain (since yesterday afternoon). It looks and feels like the beginning of November.

@Fizbosshoes not greedy at all 🤣.

FWIW it feels like November again today.

lovely pic, thanks for sharing

Love your attitude OP, we can't change the weather so gotta make the best of it otherwise we'll be miserable.

I quite like the weather at the moment, mainly because I've put on weight and my usual summer dresses are too tight and also because I've got a new turfed area on my lawn and the rain is saving me a job of keeping it well watered!

Love the photo of the cloud, my toddler is a cloud spotter like me so we get it

Despite moaning about the weather, which I do constantly, I'm reading a book at the moment about climate change and wildfires in Canada that have destroyed people's towns and am feeling very glad right now to live somewhere safe with mild weather

Well, I managed an hour outside late afternoon to plant up the trough I lined yesterday. I’m not totally happy with it, plants not as impressive as I thought they would be but hopefully they will flourish in the warmer weather which must be coming soon! I made a right mess though, getting compost and bark clippings on the wet patio but I had to leave that and crack on with another pot.

It rained as I started the next large pot, I took out the Calla Lily’s which have popped up from last year and I’ve decided to pop them in the front garden and replace with a large bush. I carried on in the rain determined to finish, ran out of compost though to fill the pot completely to the top but just about had enough bark chippings to use instead.

So its off to buy another bag of compost and of bark chippings to finish the new planting and top up last years pots. As I had hoped, the bark had degraded to enrich the compost so the pots just need a top up. Then I need to get the gardener to tidy up the rockery area so I can plant the perennial geraniums I have bought as ground cover and my new work is finished for this year - time then to get out the cushions and sit on the patio reading a book and drinking a g and t in the shade. Wishful thinking!

I hope some area of the UK had better weather today, I’m now tucked up in bed to get warm again after getting wet!