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raz.org.rain don’t be scared. “Expect” and “project” Even if it happens, there’s nothing you can do about it, other than vote for Greta Thunberg, whose ideas would create as many problems as they solve. Just try to enjoy life as best you can.

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.

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.

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

Good to see the ensembles trending towards something warmer. There has been a gradual trend towards less cool air next week as well. Ultimately though we need a dry couple of weeks now- regardless of the 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

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

Wimbledon88 No doubt they will still claim that April 2024 was the "hottest April ever!" like they do every month though lol

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.

Oh come on! You got to be joking, look at the forecast for Sunday. Even the dry spells are wet…..

Just a couple or so of very light fleeting passing showers today.

A light shower in the middle of the day giving 0.1 mm otherwise dry with sunny intervals

Flying spits and warm sun today, Now a streamer from the NNW with heavy pulses of proper rain is here and ended outdoor work

No surprise that in a period where a dry spell is measured in hours, a dry sunny morning was spoilt by an afternoon of alternating brightness and heavy showers. even the dry days have ended up being wet and after several days of northerly’s which would usually give nothing but gin clear skies this far inland, we have ended up with deluge after deluge. I’m not going down the road of who is to blame for climate change and whether it’s even man made but if this is what global warming is going to give us then I need to find my receipt and see if I have been miss sold something. anyway I just about managed to cut a length of skirting board outside between showers so it could be worse.

Got a nice thundery summer skies here Some sunshine but darkness within the distance

Gfs ensembles do show more average temps maybe a bit above and tbh heading into may thats not a bad temp to be at looking at 16/17 in the south! Any sunshine should feel nice! But does also show unsettled with rain spikes

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

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...

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!

Cracking morning here, bit chilly but no worse than to be expected at the time of year. A beautiful fresh spring morning. Hopefully the first of many.

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".

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.

Redditch is looking bit cool at the end of the month

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.

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.

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.