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Same as Andy, here. Feared for the worst first thing, but it's decent out there now.

ditto here!

Another grey, cloudy & dull start to the day here. Completely overcast and feeling cool. Feels colder than yesterday despite being dry today.

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Yes, pleasant blue sky dry start, 6.8°C 8am. I'm still putting my heating on first thing to take out the early morning chill, is everybody else getting by with any heating on yet?

B87 I know what you mean, green green grass in July is not a good sight if you like hot summery weather. I love it when everything is lush and green in May and early June but would be quite happy if it didn’t rain from then to mid September.

When I got up at 06.00 and saw gloom, mist and felt invizdriz as I popped out to the bin I thought oh no here we go again! Thankfully it’s cleared nicely in the last half hour and we look set for a sunny spells day.

B87 What a load of nonsense

reef 1637 hours was the raw figure recorded there. No idea how much of an adjustment they would need, if at all but the highest they recorded on any given day last year was a suspiciously low 14.7 on June 14th & 15th despite wall to wall sunshine & 16.6 hours of daylight. Weirdly, they were recording 15.6 hours as maximum days back in 2021 & earlier so not sure what happened.

LOL just had a shower here. So another day with rain falling.

Cloudy and dry with a low of 5.2 C

Mapantz last year April had 160hrs of sun at Bmth airport (which 15% below average) only 100hrs month to date. Might sneak 140hours but that’s pushing it. So another poor months sunshine.

CryoraptorA303 I planted some fruit trees last year in Czechia and some have baby fruit on them this spring, hopefully they won’t get frozen off. Apricots and greengages, so far. This April has certainly felt warmer than last year, but the last week has dramatically changed that and in west London, I think April 2023 was sunnier. Next week looks better, thankfully, though a real rollercoaster temperature-wise in Czechia

The first chink of daylight starting to appear when I got up at 4.45 this morning so even though the weather might still think it’s winter, summer is definitely on its way. just hope it doesn’t forget to bring its mates sunny, dry and warm with it.

Variable cloud and dry Temp 5C, Barometer 1023mb falling, Wind F2 N, Rainfall since midnight Nil

B87 You definitely had a shocker of a summer for 2021.

CryoraptorA303 I was one of those people that really enjoyed summer 2021 and was lucky with the weather. It wasn’t a summer that broke any records and overall it actually wasn’t that much sunnier nor drier than average but it was generally consistently warm with no real heat. I’m in central Scotland and I do feel Scotland had the best weather that summer out of anywhere in the UK. Especially in the west where I believe it was probably one of the best summers on record. June was generally dry and sunny with reasonable temperatures but never exceeded 25.C yet the maxima was 1.C above average. July had a little bit of a unsettled spell at the start and the last week was a bit cool and wet but it had a cracking two week spell of warm sunshine and virtually no rain during the middle of the month. August was quite unsettled in the first half but there was still a good amount of dry weather in between and the second half was superb with some glorious late summer sunshine once early morning mist burned off. Definitely was a big north/south divide that summer, a bit similar to 2020 where the south had some very hot, sunny weather, whereas the north bore the brunt of the worst weather. August 2020 was one of my worst summer months recorded.

Daniel* just as well the general theme is for average to slightly above overall across most models

Addicks Fan 1981 Easterly winds are most frequent during April and May so it's hard to distinguish whether an SSW is responsible here

Horror show pattern into early May on tonight’s GFS 18z…. takes one back to 2007-2012. The N Atlantic/Greenland blocking is difficult to shake off in spring with polar vortex out the picture.

Same, by a long way.

CryoraptorA303 august 2007 was the coolest at the time since 1993 so both months were very similar, you couldn't make it up. On the other hand the autumn colours came a lot quicker because summer of 2007 was so poor overall.

CryoraptorA303 2023 was a sunnier summer than 2021 for here. 2021 also followed an absolutely catastrophic May. June 2021 was warm, very wet and dull. July 2021 had average temps, was wet and dull. August was cool, dry and exceptionally, with only 50% of the average sunshine. 2021 overall was one of, if not the dullest year on record at Heathrow:

August 2008 was the worst I can remember and was particularly bad in the west country. Had a two week holiday in Cornwall and it was a complete washout with only one genuine decent day!