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Wet.......again!

From April 1980

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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....

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...☺

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

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!

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