I think this current spell of weather demonstrates perfectly that having lighter evenings means bugger all if the weather is dreadful. Proponents of year-round BST take note!
Off to Fuerteventura next week, cannot wait to escape the gloom.
Looking on course for yet another 100mm month around here. It's just relentless, it's extraordinary.
Anyone who insists our climate has not changed needs to look out of the window once in a while.
78/79 The rest of us will put our clocks forward on the 31st
I really hope we don't end up with another "year without a spring" like we endured last year. It's even more of a depressing thought considering how grim winter has been. At least we had an outstanding first month of summer on the back of it last year.
Genuinely got some leaves coming out on a couple of trees here. I have never seen it this early before. Certainly a year without a winter down here. Also saw my first bumblebee of the year although that's not quite so unusual in mid-Feb.
reef "But at least it's mild"
Haven't had one opportunity to get the chimenea out and have a fire this winter. It's either been too wet or too windy. And it's barely been cold enough to even properly enjoy it.
No no no no no.
The naming system for storms is an absolute shambles and completely unnecessary as it is.
Most normal summers you only get two or three hot spells that may warrant it. Are we really going to have an A-Z naming system for something that can only occur in a 3-4 month window? At least with storms they can occur year-round and are far more frequent in winter than genuine heatwaves are in summer.
That masks a couple of extremely dry months too. Feb and June barely saw a drop.
Just another example that regular periods of rainfall are a thing of the past in our changed climate. Either drought or deluge.