Summer of 95

Welshpool got hit twice, Birmingham, Stoke, Crewe.... what is it with Shrewsbury and Telford and storms? It's even worse than the snow shield. Looking close that last lot might have been as close as Alberbury/Halfway House on its east edge, really taking "Avoid Shropshire" to the limits.

That lot went 20 miles west, the previous lot 20 miles east, what's wrong with this area? It's just getting stupid now.

About the 20th time in the last 3 years.. It doesn't seem to matter what wind direction we have, storms always die here! There really seems to be something preventing deep convection in this area- the amount of time cumulus drifts over from Wales and magically spreads out over Shropshire is further evidence.

That pic and raintoday which I've been following shows it brilliantly! Note how it's keeping going around Welshpool area as well, it's just the Shrews/Telford corridor where it breaks up.

In other words, the whole of the bloody West Midlands except for Shropshire!

10 minutes of spitting rain, not even getting the ground wet, now the sun is out. Another massive T-storm fail for here, while yet again Birmingham gets all the fun

Trying to rain not very successfully, no thunder so far (what a surprise)

Grey all around now, but no rain yet and no thunder. Impossible to see if there's any Cbs about

That first line is dying 20 miles south of here, what a surprise... Second one looks stronger, but the Mid Shropshire Convection Killing Mechanism is a tough nut to crack.

Just cold rain, again. Shropshire really is an electrical storm desert, it's like there's a giant Faraday cage up in the air over us. It might turn to sleet if it gets heavier, but way too warm for settling snow.

Heavy soft hail shower in Telford about 1400, left things white for a few minutes. Not heard any thunder yet

I loved that sunshine we had at 6am on Monday, got a real nice tan and mowed the lawn, even had the paddling pool out. Was a real nice dream until it woke me up streaming through the window when it was -2C outside. Who needs it at 7 in the evening when people are awake and children want to play outside?

A repeat of April 4th 2012? Managed to score a morning with lying snow that day after virtually nothing all winter, and a week after the March hot spell. Just one day that makes the MO rule would do, Feb 11th failed by an hour.

Sleet mixed in with rain in a shower here about midday. Went over to Barmouth this afternoon and there was a heavy hail shower there as we were leaving about 1615, and saw lots of sleet driving back. Was pretty much all snow going over that Oerddrws pass near Dinas Mawddwy, but only above 600m did the hills have a dusting.

Not sure about the Pennines but the Welsh mountain one is definitely weaker in the summer, in fact it virtually disappears a lot of the time. A front from the west in December and January will usually not produce much rain here, often nothing at all: quite often we have sunny spells while places like Capel Curig record 20mm or more of rain. We get much more in winter from Cheshire Gap setups or lows passing to the south than a standard Atlantic westerly. In summer though fronts, rain and cloud come over the mountains as though theyre not there at all, westerly setups can be very cloudy (July 2010) and wet (August 2008). On the MO averages, Shawbury gets about a third the rainfall of Bala from Dec-Feb, but about 70-80% from June-Aug, incredible.

Yes this afternoon must have been maddening in Cheshire, I've had sunshine pretty much dawn to dusk yet I could see cloud during the afternoon along the horizon from NNW through ESE. It looked as though Crewe, Stoke and Warrington would have been under it while we were clear. We had our turn on Weds and Thur with that wretched stubborn fog and low cloud while further north was sunny.

Beautiful day with almost unbroken sunshine; some cloud/murk appeared on the NW, N and E horizons during the afternoon but it stayed away from here. Must have had about 10 hours sunshine today.

Glorious morning, much better than most of the days last week that were supposed to be clear. Yesterday's high clag has gone and it's feeling warm already.

2010 no thanks, OK June but abominably dull July (just 86 hours at Shawbury). Not one thunderstorm either. The best of the "average" summers was probably 2005, which was only not "good" because of a dull cold end to July and a lack of real heat on August, despite a lot of sunny dry weather.

Very disappointing in the end here- not one air frost and max temps after Sunday (which was a respectable 17C) were nothing special. From Tuesday on it was far too much fog, murk and low cloud that wouldn't clear.

Snow doesn't stay in Reykjavik for months: winter temps average almost exactly 0C. It seems to get a lot of snow that is soon washed away, and probably gets countless days of sleet, or cold rain at 2C. Qaanaaq in Greenland- now there's somewhere it doesn't melt for months, no sunlight from Nov to Feb, yet it still gets more annual sunshine than here!!!!!https://en.wikipedia/org/wiki/Qaanaaq

Sun out now, much warmer than this time yesterday. Still a bit hazy to the S but clear overhead.

Fog had started to come down again before it had even got fully dark. About 150-200m visibility here now, but patches of near-zero on roads nearby. Still holding up at 5C- the nights haven't been as cold as expected in this spell.

Fog is still struggling to lift here, Sun is very hazy... I've been wondering, is this persistent fog/murk due to the wet winter? The ground is still very waterlogged, roads have dried but there is still standing water on the fields. Is all this moisture saturating the air and causing fog and mist to form, despite the high pressure and dry airmass? It's particularly notable that the areas that were wettest compared to average (south, Midlands, east Wales) have been getting the worst of this murk while the north of England, which wasn't so wet, is avoiding a lot of it. It isn't North Sea Muck either, it's been forming over land and the east coast is missing a lot of it. So is the wet winter spoiling what should be a clear, warm, sunny setup?

Sun has been shining very hazily for a couple of hours, but the sky is certainly not blue. Unbelievably stubborn considering it was shallow fog and it's March.