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This high pressure then..... It's all a cruel joke. Raining here, cold, miserable. I didn't think 2024 could be worse than 2023 but so far it's shaping up to be.

Yuk Yuk and more Yuk what a depressing outlook more rain and low temperatures.

We are eating deep into what is typically the Lake District 'drier season', its going to need a 2018 to redeem itself, but no signal for any substantive dry spell, though we are seeing much drier synoptics, heights look set to position themselves too far to the west, and we remain at the mercy of the euro trough. Whilst not unprecedented, it would be extremely exceptional to see the wet theme hold through to June. We shall see. 1998 is a good comparison year, we did manage a long dry warm spell in May at least, the less said about the summer the better though.

BTW 127.7 mm for the month (that's gone up a lot since I last checked), 401 mm for the year!

It's raining . I suppose we should be thankful for the odd dry day . I'm in my 50s and I've never seen anything like the last 6 months or so..

Just 2 days this year so far where the rainfall total for our region was 0.00mm Last occasion we had 2 consecutive days of recording 0.00mm was 4th and 5th September last year.

Wet.......again!

From April 1980

Wet during the day with the sun finally making an appearance at teatime. Light winds and max of 9c. Showers thereafter, but mixed with a low sun some stunning rainbows as a result (taken in Alford)... Farmers now starting to plough fields in earnest, normally a job completed well before now - a testament to what seems like incessant wet weather since last autumn.

Had Worse taking big coat to London tomorrow.. only meant to be 14/15c… cold

Depressingly wet last night when Mrs FLT and I had to go out. Very damp this morning but signs of it drying and brightening up, with glimpses of blue sky and a gusty wind. Hopefully it will be dry for the weekend.

12.5mm picked up this morn for previous 24hrs. April so far 131.7mm. Year so far 683.1 mm. Record wet April measured here was 181.9mm in 1970. but that followed a very dry March and then we had a dry May and June. Jolly bleak unless sun pops out. Very glad I made a batch of Xmas puds just before Easter. Still 2 left.

Sun's been out for ages here. Been dry for ages as well but there's obviously been some rain today as I've recorded 0.4 mm but I'm not sure when it was.

Again a depressing start to the day ,post rain dampness

Weather-history Interesting to read "so far this month 152.9 hours of sunshine." Depressing to see just 44.4 hours of sunshine recorded so far at Rostherne. Yesterday was their Coldest temp so far for April.

Weather-history from memory the summer that followed wasn’t anything special though. I certainly remember a lot of local cricket matches being effected by rain with a few games being abandoned without a ball being bowled.

Seems to be a feature of the week, an arc of precipitation coming through some part of the region.

Hardly surprising it's so nippy given the temps in Scandinavia last night and the UK under a NE breeze. Pretty extraordinary low temps up there given how late in Spring we are.

Especially if it's just the stock iphone or android weather app you're using. I get why the layman may use those, but weather nuts like us shouldn't go anywhere near those!

SunnyG Getting paid triple figures per year for a job where you can have a ridiculously low success rate and not be fired? Or getting paid triple figures per year for a job where you can say to everyone "it's going to be some degree of cloudy, and also some degree of wet" daily and then put your feet up. Probably a combo of both. Either way, I'd be smiling too!

SunnyG probably going on holiday somewhere warm and sunny!

Its actually stopped raining 🌧. Edit... the suns coming out.

8.4 °C 7am. Quite windy here making it feel much colder, and it's raining, needed big coat on just to feed the birds.

Spectromat Sounds like an early call of a stuck summer pattern. 5-wave patterns can be stubborn to shift in summer, and just need to be wary here of us getting stuck in a trough if the high pressure is too far to the west when the music stops, as it were! The models are currently very keen now for the high pressure over the next week to move west towards the end of the month. Nothing warm in the outlook whatsoever at the moment, a welcome break from the rain over the next week or so, but it could all head wrong again after that. Ho hum!

Remarkable level of similarity between Gefs, Eps and Geps 0z for 850s.. ...reasonable level of certainty i think for the remainder of April then the trending back to average temps (or even above ) for beginning of May..not completely dry although hopefully less rain than what we have been encountering...

The Met Office forecast from yesterday (see below) looks pretty bang on. Cloudy, chilly, damp morning to be replaced by showers in the afternoon:

Good grief, the weather today is far more dire than forecasted. Dull, gloomy, windy and chilly. Looking to be showers later too, lol. It was showing as 13c and mostly sunny when I looked yesterday. So much for "high pressure".

Woke up this morning and it was sunny. I turn my back for 5 mins and the gloom moves in!

Can't think of worse time in history to be a meteorologist when it seems it's been an age since they've provided a forecast that gets the smiles back on faces. It's like the weather is broken! However, even though its cloudy without a chance of meatballs, it's dry and I bloody hope we can go at least a week without rain!

Can't see what she's smiling about...

cheese They haven't had crappy weather for over a year though. stainesbloke Yep, it gets better soon, while for us it's more of the same...

jamesthemonkeh Dare I say that looks a tad unstable, showery at least, with strong April sunshine and slack pressure. Could be a few rumbles with that.

richie3846 No, but above average for sure. It's the increasing frequency this Spring for me, barely a dry day. Looking forward to 4 or 5 days of dry weather to try and get the grass cut.

jy I cut grass as part of my landscaping business (which has evolved over 15 years to be about 40% garden maintenance inc lawns/hedges, and 60% hard landscaping). I quite like lawn mowing, but it really does depend on which lawns, the weather and how much they’ve grown! It’s going to be a tough few months of cutting as the ground is so wet, and they are rocketing at the moment. Just this week a lawn I did my own took 3 hours instead of the usual 2.. and flat lawns are rare around here. A rare flat lawn I did just before that one took over 2 hours, when I have done it in an hour and a quarter.. it produced 4 times the amount of grass cuttings compared to 4 weeks ago! So it’s a mixed bag for me depending on how much it grows - which of course is weather dependant. Thankfully most of our lawns are timed and priced accordingly....

Another rainy morning. What a truly awful Spring this is. My son's cricket pitch is essentially a bog and not likely to be playable until mid June at the earliest. Effectively writing off half their season. Old fellas at the club cannot remember it as bad.

cheese No better in Czechia, we’ve gone straight back to early March this week. Some sunny spells, at least, but the baltic wind is just nasty. A ray of hope showing in 10 days time

At least it’s been a bad spring for most of Europe, not just us. Look at this yucky Munich forecast for example

Certainly the outlook is very different fayre to what we've experienced for quite some time. Can't recall the last time we had a cold euro trough and strong heights to our NW linking into the pole. We've seen alot of troughing over and to the SW of UK but not to our east and south east. If any time of year is most likely to produce such synoptics its now, complete opposite to the south west airstream, instead we have a NE flow. Short term, a pleasant spell for far west parts, with dry sunny conditions and respectable temps, further east, cool cloudy with showery dank weather. Next week could well turn quite unsettled for many as lower heights push east , cloud, rain and supressed temps, not what many I expect are wanting.

Evening all The HP is ambling across the Atlantic to take up brief residence over the British Isles but it quickly recedes back north west allowing the Scandinavian trough to take control next week. GFS 12Z OP develops a shallow area of LP over western Denmark next Wednesday which extends west to the British Isles - unsettled but no deluges. By the end of next week, this trough has engaged with residual energy over the Atlantic to form a broad but shallow trough over much of northern Europe. Heights remain low over much of the Mediterranean basin and high over Greenland and mid-Atlantic. Overall, in truth, nothing too exciting one way or the other - it's not untypical late April fare in all honesty. Perhaps a short warmer period over Ireland and the far west of Scotland but the main issue might be the nightime minima which suggest plenty of ground frost for sheltered rural areas with all the attendant risks for horticulture at this time of the year.

Yes the ECM is looking less cool now for next week but incredibly it looks likely low pressure will be influencing us yet again after midweek. The nightmare continues it seems.

Northern blocking ,isn't going to fade anytime soon according to the 00z gfs even into the start of May! Looks like Iberia and North Africa are going to take the brunt of heavy cold rains and very surpressed temperatures. In fact of talking record highs for Iberia ,we could be talking of record lows of temperatures and rainfall for the time of year....... Although !I hate the term "records "as it's all happened before ,long before man started noting weather data...☺

iand61 I would bite ones arm off for a winter 2020/21 repeat! I remember the morning the day the pub's reopened outside, there was a little snow where I was at the time, but most of all was sitting outside that evening at the pub, which was a challenge to say the least! The patio heaters were not up to the job!

In Absence of True Seasons I expect the same as last year. This is the new normal.

Snow showers galore today. Temp stayed around zero all day. Coldest day for 6 weeks ! C

Cool breezy dull day with some torrential downpours to our east in the afternoon while we got just a few spits. Currently 9c. No real grass growth so cattle turnout going to be late.

MP-R August 1995 i would describe as very much in the vein of a typical July/August i get here on the Canadian prairies..dry warm/hot with low humidity and enough of a breeze to make it almost perfection in terms of summer weather

I know where I'd like to be for the next week to ten days and that's as far west as possible, a week of cold north northeast winds and top temps of 10c along the east coast with low cloud and patch drizzle at times these sort of patterns can be hard to shift, I'm not jealous of those in the west at all, gets on the phone to his sister in east Ayrshire fancy a weeks visit from your bro

Well it was 2C here around the time when I opened the curtains this morning to the sight of wet snow falling. Made a good attempt to snow for the next hour or so, which is more than it did for most of the traditional winter period. Much nicer later in the day, almost pleasant despite the temp maxing out at 7.7C

A short-eared owl on Chat Moss, a number of them decided to winter on the Moss.

A short eared owl passing through my area