harold

Am I thinking this right that an anti-cyclonic gloom is sort of high pressure sat over the top of a cloud layer (squashing it down), rather than the normal clearer skies we would expect?

That's really interesting, thanks.

I am just trying to get a feel for if I am imaging this or if it has actually been miserable for months. You know those big fluffy clouds that you see on a nice day. Can't remember the last time I saw those. Very little wind. Just dull grey skies. Cannot remember the last time we had a full week of nice sunny weather, apart from a few days when was -minus temps and everything covered in snow. Could it be something to do with reduced air traffic out of Manchester Airport heading north? Nothing much to churn the atmosphere up. Thanks for the responses so far.

Hello - I am new here - hope this is in the right place. Am I imagining things or has the weather in Lancashire been particularly cloudy of late. By that I mean the last 9 months or so...... From memory I seem to recall that we had weeks of good weather during the first part of lockdown in 2020 apart from April which wasn't so good. Then we had a few nice (hot) days here and there until about July and then ever since after that we have only had odd nice days here there. The rest has been cloudy and miserable. Weeks and weeks without seeing the sun. It seems to me we either have 100% cloud or 0% cloud and very few days of anything in between. IIRC it has been like this since JULY last year! This doesn't seem normal. I cannot remember the last time we had a WEEK of good weather. 99 times out of 100 times I look out of the window all I can see is GREY! Anyone like to offer comment. Thanks.