to be irrationally angry that the weather is going to be crap for Easter weekend

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That's it really. I've been looking forward to it. We have plans, mostly outdoor stuff such as an Easter Egg Hunt at a lovely place. Anything indoors will be packed and nasty. Praying they've got it wrong......

i do remember summer 2006 but very hot and being pregnant and uncomfortable.

We organise a massive Easter Egg hunt for our friends and their kids and the past few years the weather has been fine, this year looks like the year my bad weather contingency plans are going to be finally put in place. (DH laughed at the all the extra planning we've never had to worry about)
Otherwise I'm going to have about 100 rather disappointed people descending on my doorstep

"I must admit my displeasure at not being able to take a holiday to sunnier climes this Easter due to bloody exams, yet again!

When my DC leave for university I intend to spend the whole of March/ April in the tropics"

You sound like me

I think some of you have unrealistic expectations. Easter is very early this year. Also, statistically, we are more likely to get snow at Easter then at Christmas.

Tomorrow looks nice - we are hoping to make the most of it with a coastal walk and picnic or pub lunch

Last year was lovely. I remember swimming in a waterfall pool, though the water was freezing. It was a lovely sunny day.

We go to Wales most Easter breaks. Some years we're wearing t-shirts, other years there's snow. This forecast does look particularly wet and windy though.

It was later though wasn't it, Easter is early this year.

It was about 20 degrees here last Easter holidays (one of the weeks anyway).

not that much later easter sunday was the 5th of april last year.

Totally NU. It is hard to be joyful-of-the-burgeoning-year and to scamper and frolic delightedly with your children when there is a sarcastic little wind finding every gap in your layers of swaddled clothing and a sky of unrelenting pessimism overhead.

Your children will enjoy the Easter egg hunt regardless. You will probably be overcome with melancholy and despair as you survey the scene and note it's tragic irony, as they squeal with delight and hope amidst a nature that is callously indifferent to human love and joy.

I think that comedian, Bill Thingy, was spot on when he said the weather has a lot to do with developing a British temperament of gentle melancholy.

We need to campaign to move the UK somewhere else - where the sun shines on the Easter bank holiday.

I agree thecat - it's not as if we're asking for much, just 900 miles closer to the equator ought to do it. With two thirds of the earth being water, there is an abundance of space to position an island such as ours.

I don't have specific easter plans but it's my friend's baby shower on Saturday and I need to travel an hour and a half each way on public transport while dressed "nicely" and lugging gifts in the pissing rain. I'm a bit grumpy about it!

bank holidays are always an effective rainmaking ceremony!

Easter is very early this year, it is still only early spring.

YANBU. I don't mind the pissing rain so much as the timing. If DH doesn't get out to do his hobby as anticipated, he'll want to do unspeakable, mess-making things to the house, and everyone will be in a bad mood.
I hate Spring anyway. I hate its fakey flakey brightness and unreliability, and feeling guilty about putting the heating on to soothe my cold nose, and not knowing what coat to put on. Wake me up when it's summer. Probably in about 2020.

Yes. Spring is the friend that always turns up at least ten minutes after your patience left, cancels on you at short notice, and if you ask for her help with something, she puts in about half as much effort as you have made in doing something to say thank you for her help.

Spring is so flakey.

I'd be more sympathetic if it wasn't snowing here...

YANBU but this is Great Britain so we should really assume the worse and anything else is a bonus.

We're going to Scotland on holiday in May, I'm assuming it'll rain but it is literally a pisser! Damn weather