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  1. Once again, plagued by cloud so far today here in Essex. Why are some of the forecasts getting it so wrong as well? After the cold December and cool January, then the wet, cool & dull March and cool April, May has been fairly dull with little warmth (as I said yesterday, 21C not reached in Essex in Spring for the first time since 1983). Spring is usually my favourite season, particularly May, but this year here has frankly been depressing.
  2. Here in mid-Essex (Writtle) it's yet to reach 21C this year and doesn't look like it will before June. Last time there was no 21C in Spring was 1983! Just three days of 20C+ this Spring (might squeeze an extra one out on 31/5 as 20C is forecast). Average is ten days. Yesterday was very nice, sunny and warm, but for each of those this Spring we've had about four cloudy and cool days. Also, yet again the temperatures have been downgraded for this week - was showing 22C for Thursday and Friday, now showing 20C and 19C! Has anyone else noticed flowers and veg plants are stunted this year as a result? This time last year I had cosmos and other things flowering but they're holding back this year. Tomato and cucumber plants also definitely smaller.
  3. Finally got some milky sunshine which is better than cloud! Temperatures also up to 18C so will probably see a max of 19C which isn't bad. We've not had a properly warm, sunny spell yet this spring, although last week was pretty good. Week after next seems much better...?!
  4. Starting to brighten up here in Essex now so hopefully the sun will actually shine soon. There were sunny intervals forecast this morning but the reality has been no sun at all. Temperature not even 10C at 11am. Hopefully the sun will be strong enough, once it comes out, to bring the forecast 20C temperature.
  5. I know this is off-topic but many other countries are higher as they drink a lot over a week, for example, due to having it with meals. People in this country may drink less, but often it's done in concentrated sessions. Having small amounts over a week is better than having loads of alcohol in one evening/night. EDIT: Oops, just realised someone has pointed this out already.
  6. Was looking forward to some sun and warmth today after the crap March and April we endured... and it's only just starting to brighten up now at nearly 6pm. Max of 13C... weather apps originally went for 18-20C and local BBC radio said 20C! The climate we have here is one of the reasons I'm becoming increasingly fed up with the UK (there are other things too but I won't go into them here!). I know mainland Europe's not having a great Spring but the UK doesn't exactly have a high bar to start with, so what we end up with when things aren't great is pretty damn poor.
  7. Tomorrow looks fairly decent here with sunny intervals through the day. However, once again Sunday, Monday and Tuesday are forecast to be sunny first thing, then cloud over, then be sunny at the end of the day. Thought it may be wind direction related but it doesn't appear to be?!
  8. April has definitely been cooler than average here in mid-Essex. Daily maxes at Writtle so far have averaged at 13.1C, that's 1.2C below the 1991-2020 average. March was also slightly cool at 0.6C below. More importantly in Spring though is how early/frequently you hit 17-20C as this is the sign of the long-awaited warming after winter! This year is in the top five latest for hitting 17C at Writtle as it's yet to do so, making it the latest since 1986. The latest ever is 11th May (1982). Looks like 17C will be breached before May though, possibly along with 18C. Interestingly it took until 3rd May to hit 18C in 2006 and that was a hot summer. Then there's the rain - nearly three times the average in March and nearly 1.5 times the average so far in April. March was one of the dullest on record, while April's sunshine seems to only be around early in the morning and/or late in the day - so some days may show as having 7+ hours but that's often been sunrise-10:00 and 17:00-sunset, missing the potentially warmest part of the day.
  9. Average max. for where I am throughout April is 14.3C. So far it's been 12.7C and looks like maxes will be 11-15C in the next two weeks, so it'll likely finish around 1.5C below average. No-one expects 25C in April every day, but often at this point in Spring we've at least had a few days of 18C+ weather - that's not happened yet. Also the models have at least twice forecasted such weather which ends up being watered down. This, coupled with the wet March and cold winter, makes this April seem worse.
  10. As of Wednesday last week, mid-Essex was predicted to get to 18-20C all this week and it looked really good. Then it got downgraded a bit, but the BBC local forecasters just a few days ago were still saying 18-20C by the end of the week. Now what's being forecast is 12-15C all week. This has to be the worst Winter/Spring I can remember here for many years in terms of pleasant weather... very cold December (just as energy prices hit record highs), pretty cool January, a dull, wet and cool March, then a cool and fairly wet April. The snow in December was nice to an extent but it outstayed its welcome for me.
  11. Yes, unfortunately it's pretty much anything with a hose (assuming you're in an area with a ban of course!).
  12. I've been to Montpellier several times in mid-September and it's usually warm without being too hot (mid to high 20Cs) and the same in late May too. Even in October it's still pretty warm and regularly into the low-mid 20Cs. It's not that far from Nice so will be fairly similar I'd have thought. The station nearest Nice seems to be Cote d'Azur, which has a WMO ID of 07690. Go to the Ogimet link below, stick that number in the index box and then choose the months/years you want to see data for. You can select a maximum of 50 days at once. Also don't forget the climate section of Nice's Wikipedia article which gives the averages by month. It's not until July that things really heat up in south France, but you can still get plenty of 30C+ days from mid-late June. I hope you have a great time whenever you decide to go! Nice - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Form to get daily summaries from synop reports WWW.OGIMET.COM
  13. At the risk of raising the usual BST debate, surely temporarily keeping BST until late Nov and bringing it back a month earlier next year would've been an easy win for the government in terms of helping people with energy bills? Perhaps not a massive difference but surely worth a go. I don't think there's been any experiment with BST since the 70s either.
  14. BBC Essex's Ray Clark always reckons this encapsulates the move from late summer into early autumn.
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