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Catbrainz I'd probably nudge it up to 5/10, but maybe that's just down to my relief at finally having some time (eg this weekend just gone) without grey wet gloom being the default! It's by no means been a classic April, but I don't have a huge problem with a mixed month at this time of year. That said, I would like a properly dry, sunny month now - ideally warm too, but dry and sunny are more important to me. We've waited far too long.

A nice St George's Day here. (Not really keen on it being a bank holiday, as our holidays are too concentrated in spring as it is.) More sunshine than I was expecting - it's sunny right now - and no rain. Not very warm (max 12.3 °C) but I can forgive a lot when it's sunny! A marked improvement on the dross of yesterday, certainly.

JakeWorces Yep, much the same a few miles away in Bewdley. This weekend has been significantly better than the forecast, which is a strange and unnerving experience!

Yesterday was a great day, actually better than the forecast. I'd been expecting a sunny morning (tick) but then increasing cloud and gloom in the afternoon. Instead the sun was still shining, albeit not all the time, in the early evening. And on a Saturday, too!

A gloomy and grey start here with a few light showers. Improving now though with sunshine and scattered clouds. This is reasonable spring fare.

First air frost in a while last night (-1.4 °C) and a decent, chilly, bright start to the day. Max 13.2 °C. Deteriorated later on, though, with gloomy overcast conditions and a little light rain. Wind got up, too.

Okay, now this is the kind of April morning I can get behind!

After a pretty nice day, it's now raining! Only a couple of showers on the radar, but one of them is right over me. Irritating.

Unsurprisingly a new 2024 high for me at 18.7 °C. Lovely when the sun was out, though a bit uninspiring when the murk returned later on.

This thread has been getting quite serious and scientific of late given it's the moaning (etc) thread, so let me drag the level down again for a moment by saying this late afternoon and evening feels like it's undone a lot of the (relatively) good conditions of the last week. I know they weren't very good everywhere, but we missed most of the daytime rain... until today. I was surprised and a little bit disconcerted how quickly my mood fell again with a thought of "Oh no, not more of this gunk!"

markyo danm Interesting the two different emphases you put on your respective replies. I'd like to think danm will be closer, but there's an element of hopecasting on my part there I'll admit. I could cope with a wetter climate if we got more sunshine out of it. A wetter climate that was also warmer but duller is not really something I can deal with with ease. Not that I'll have any say in it, of course!

Not a pleasant late afternoon/early evening here. Windy, gloomy, wet. The heaviest of the rain band is just a little to the east of here, but it'll have added a few more mm to the rainfall total and right now that's never welcome. 24 hours ago tomorrow was forecast to be largely dry with only a small risk of showers. Why do I think the day is going to be downgraded yet *again* in reality?

I hope the last part of that will prove to be excessively pessimistic. After all, several people here have posted stats showing that annual sunshine hours have actually *increased* in the last decade or two. But more rain too seems absolutely nailed on. It's just the consequence of a warmer atmosphere.

AWD I've been pretty much under that band for the last hour. Not incredibly heavy rain, but irritating and persistent and unpleasant to be out in. However, just in the last few minutes the sun has appeared. There is hope! I do get the point about things being the same all the time, though. "Low-mid teens, cloudy, damp, windy at times" -- it currently feels like that's going to be right about 300 days a year...

As long as I'm out of the wind, it's a nice day today. The warmth is pleasant rather than remarkable (17.1 °C max so far) but with the sunshine it's plain ol' nice. More of this sort of thing, please!

It's currently sunny here in Worcs, albeit very windy, so I really hope things improve for those of you in more sun-starved regions! ETA: and literally as I post that the sun goes in!

Jonnoramo87 Never. From here on in every single month will be below average, until eventually we end up with no sunshine ever again, after which to be below average would require negative sunshine.

And another decent day! Not totally dry, but mostly so, enough sunshine to feel warm occasionally, winds not too strong for the most part. It's nothing special, but balm for the soul nevertheless.

Weather Enthusiast91 Cold and sunny, and it's not close. Admittedly I'm a bit biased after months of wet!

A superb morning here today, with some very early rain but then clear air and lots of sunshine. Quite a mild day too, though nothing exceptional (max 14.4 °C). Gradually went downhill from mid-afternoon and has been raining on and off for a few hours, but the first half of the day was more than acceptable. Actually, since the start of the Easter long weekend, really only Sunday has been a grimfest, and even then it was because of chilly murk rather than hours of rain. Things *have* been a bit better lately, though admittedly the bar to clear would have challenged a world class limbo dancer!

I actually went out and bought an ice cream at lunchtime, then later sat out in the garden in a T-shirt. Would not have seen either coming during yesterday's chilly gloom!

matty40s Not in this case, I think. We'd have heard about it earlier if there were Thames-level problems here. It was being advertised as going ahead just a week or so ago. Plus for this race people chuck ducks off the bridge so go nowhere near the water. I'm almost certain the issue this time was the high and fast river.

We seem to be doing Saturday again here. In the gap between the rain bands in NW England/N Wales and the line of showers roughly along the M4, here it's sunny, calm and bordering on warm (13.6 °C, but the sun is quite powerful by now). As with Saturday, considerably better than last night's forecast! People sitting in beer gardens and along the river again. This won't do Bewdley any harm at all! Sadly the charity duck race seems to have been cancelled this year - no argument really given the decision would have been made a couple of days ago when the river was very high and clearly too dangerous to proceed, but comms from the organisers were useless, non-existent in fact, so I encountered several disappointed young families in town.

WYorksWeather That legitimately frightens me. Unless we're incredibly lucky with the timing of rainfall events, that seems almost certain to bring yet another significant flood to Bewdley (which would be the *sixth* since autumn) and probably another 5 metre one. That's our unofficial yardstick for a severe flood. They're supposed to be rare. The last one was all the way back back in... January this year. Going on my experience of this town, if that comes anywhere near to verifying then yes, you absolutely will be seeing a lot of pictures of severe flooding this April. What do we have to do to get out of this mess?

Yeah, it's okay today, remarkable for a holiday weekend! The Bewdley Duck Race is on Easter Monday, and fingers crossed it'll go ahead. The river is right on the edge of what would be considered safe for it, I think (because the ducks are picked up at the other end of the course by stewards in boats and canoes!) and I'm not sure it would happen if it were scheduled for today. The EA projection has the river falling a bit over the next couple of days, so fingers crossed. April currently looks like being a horror show, so I'll pretend the models don't exist for now!