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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.

B87 That seems a bit extreme to me... I don't think we should want to go right to the opposite extreme, just a change to something a bit more normal. The damage this would cause to nature after already enduring one ridiculous extreme would be huge. stainesbloke Zurich has had snow on multiple days now, some of it even settled for a while. Why couldn't this have happened in February? Bloody El Niño. As for continued unsettledness, this is still quite the change from the constant Atlantic lows we were getting, so progress is progress. Breaking the habit is the first step towards something better. I get people's pessimism at the moment, I really do, everything is going to and we still aren't seeing any truly warm weather in the near future, but the situation is now a lot better than what it was in March, at least down here. This April has also imo far surpassed last year, I'm seeing the Sun more or less every day now, the trees have bloomed and we've had a handful of warm days. Last April was completely dull, grey and rainy aside from all of a few days at the end of the month. Things are on the up.

Weather Enthusiast91 If the grass isn't totally brown and dead in the summer, then we will have had too much rain.

Looked at the radar this morn and it looked like it would clear by lunch but NO, its kept on drizzling/raining all afternoon and through this evening, log burner lit again and its a week away from May, really starting to 'grind my gears' now....

What a miserable day on the NY moors. Despite the forecast of rain heading away south late morning, it continued to rain for most of the day and non-too warm either. Still raining on and off until recently. Can we hope for a drier day tomorrow? I certainly hope so. Edit - one thing that has not been a problem today is the wind, but it seems to be blowing up a bit now, which will not be a bad thing if it blows the main area of rain away..

Bats32 yep lovely, it's felt warm in the sun Don't look at the GFS for Saturday though... 3-5c with cold rain and sleet

Not very often we see a low pressure system romp so triumphantly west from Scandinavia through the UK and Ireland to the Atlantic, as here on the 12z UKMO but there are some very intricate handovers of pockets of low heights that drive the whole process and give it some considerable elegance. The first pocket drops south to join the Scandinavian low at day 2, deepening it. The second drops out of the trough at the tip of Greenland at day 3, joining the melee at day 4 and drawing the system west over the UK and Ireland for the weekend. Thanks A third pocket drops southeast via the same route at day 6, pulling the system west out over the Atlantic. Looks like an “atmospheric” weekend awaits to round off this very mixed April, ripe for savoury evening treats washed down with a sumptuous glass or three of your favourite ale or wine. The late spring fitness effort can wait until some suitable conditions are laid on. And from there, let’s grab all the potential silver linings. Though not seemingly immediately on offer, there are at least some emerging signs that this remarkable retrogression, as a part of wider adjustments occurring within the generally very static hemispheric pattern, might eventually lead to sufficiently consistent heights building over the near continent to bring us a better chance of some warmer interludes as May progresses.

NUT Lovely evening, very mild and late spring like.

One of those occasions which is most likely to occur in the second half of Spring than any other time of year, when much of Cumbria sees the best English conditions, Wales, N Ireland and West Scotland often the same. Thanks to the influence of high pressure to the west, we received virtually nil traces of rain from the warm front, it was all to our east, and today we have sat in a dry spot, albeit cloudy, but also quite bright, high level cloud, no wind and pleasant temps close to 14 degrees. Always say mid April to late June best time to visit Lake District!

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.

raz.org.rain You contradicted yourself in your previous post then!

CryoraptorA303 Yellow grass then. That is a standard thing that happens in any normal summer. April 2023 was sunnier than April 2024 here.

Don we're already in an ice age by definition, as long as there's permanent ice at the poles.

Evening all. Great deal of uncertainty at the moment about the way forward, but thought it might be worth throwing the 12z ECM meteogram in. After a continuation of the current pattern for the next few days we get the wind into more of a southerly quadrant by day 5 or so, which looks to lift temperatures above average. Unfortunately this is accompanied by a fair bit of rain, and in particular next weekend looks like another horror show to add to the list so far this year - very wet and temperatures near average held back by the rain. Beyond that into early May possibly somewhat less wet and warmer, but plenty of options on the table. There are a few warm outliers getting the temperature quite widely into the low 20s, but equally plenty of near to slightly below average scenarios. The key difficulty in the current scenario seems to be getting that combination of warm and dry. Most of the warmer options tend to be somewhat south-westerly and therefore it's unlikely we'll avoid rain for very long. And the options that do have more high pressure influence seem to position the high out to our west as we've seen recently, which is unlikely to produce anything notably warm.

Dull, cold, grey and miserable. Me and the weather both.

Ross B Lol, I'm ignoring that and choosing to believe the MetO weather app which isn't quite as bad!

Cambrian is that techspeak for ‘more rain dear, get that logburner lit’?

I'm very capable of reading graphs thank you and my comment still stands. The solid black line is only a 10 year running mean and is too short. The dashed line is a more appropriate long term average that is still increasing on almost all the graphs you posted.

One word... YUCK!

The maximum today here was 7.7C. The last time any day in the last 10 days of April was colder than that was 25th April 1997 when it reached 7.5C. The date record low maximum is 6.0C in 1981. Not record breaking but certainly notable.

Another poor days weather, rain never really that heavy but the wet periods were certainly longer than the dry bits in between and a raw feel to things just to rub it in even more. the decent couple of days over the weekend are a distant memory now and I’m glad I managed to get the grass cut as I doubt it will be dry enough over the next 5 days. We may have just been spoilt over the last few years with decent springs and even last year which was a bit iffy had its dry, sunny and warm periods but this one really takes crappyness to a whole new level. nowt we can do about it though and selfishly, at least it is a countrywide crappyness rather than us looking on enviously while the decent weather is hogging other parts.

Took a while but cloud finally clearing. Despite the cloud tho been one of the warmest places in the UK today it looks like (how often can we say that)

richie3846 shows just how dreadful these last 18 months have been for people to say that 7 degrees and drizzle can be considered as 'not too bad'. It's late April for crying out loud, it's completely dismal and depressing.

RebsAbbo Yes the noise from overloaded clogged mowers was evident in our village yesterday afternoon. I should have cut ours yesterday, but also had loads of other jobs to do. Needless to say we are back to the same old wet today. Still raining at lunchtime but appears to have stopped now. Cold at 7c. Cycling is off until Thursday due to bike needing repairs, a walk at lunchtime resulted in me getting wet.

raz.org.rain And wetter

richie3846 Saying 7c & overcast drizzle in late April could be worse is like saying falling down a flight of stairs and only breaking both your legs could have been worse I like your optimism but there's no sugar coating it, these conditions are dire for this time of year lol.

Spring used to be my favourite month as we used to get lots of sunshine, Summer to look forward to and the sun constantly getting higher and the days brighter. Lately however, its been one of the worst and dullest seasons which is a massive crime. Here are how I'd rate the past 11 Spring months since 2021 down in Shoeburyness- March 2021- Average April 2021- Excellent May 2021- Crap March 2022- Good April 2022- Average May 2022- Below average March 2023- Crap April 2023- Below average May 2023- Average March 2024- Crap April 2024- Crap May 2024- Likely crap considering the pattern we have is unshakeable So Spring in Shoeburyness has been getting progressively worse year by year since the glorious 2020. What a time to be alive...

Back on the NY moors and coast until Thursday. A pleasant enough afternoon, a bit of sunshine, cool despite the lack of wind, but dry which was welcome. Not sure it's going to last that way with rain forecast for tomorrow to move down from the North. Not sure how much we shall see near the coast, hopefully not a lot!

RebsAbbo de-stoning and ridging for spuds i see , twas a pleasant day on the Wolds today, i took advantage and spent the splitting logs, again....

Finally the bite in that wind has eased, a thoroughly pleasant spring day on the wolds. Not a lot of warmth to the sun yet but the absence of wind is enough for now….and finally the planting has begun in earnest this year