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Bristawl Si It does make me laugh that 21C at the beginning of May is being touted as something amazing. Shows how dreadful this spring has been.

I massively underestimated how much rain we would get last night. 35mm today that takes us to 95.4mm for the month. Frustrating to just miss out on yet another 100mm month. It never ends.

Absolutely ridiculous stat highlighting how wet the last 8 months have been here. We're going to be finishing on around 70-80mm for April. That makes it the driest month since August.

5C and chucking it down. 5 weeks today is the first day of summer. I am not upset to be working night shifts this weekend.

sorepaw1 I don't follow that logic. You've acknowledged that our weather patterns are a world away from what you experienced growing up. Surely that would strengthen the evidence of the effects of climate change?

Azazel Bloody hell I would be absolutely melting in that attire in this weather. It's chilly but no more than a light jumper required for me.

TwisterGirl81 Then crap for the weekend, of course.

I just hope we don't have an absence of a happy middle ground between this dross and the inevitable "Unpleasant 35C+ from nowhere heatwave" that we will inevitably get in the summer.

Just got back from 10 days of glorious warm sunshine in Fuerteventura, and the spring is just as wretched as it was before. Comfortably the worst spring I've ever experienced. 6C and drizzle barely a week from May is appalling.

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.

5 out of the last 6 months here have had more than 100mm of rain. Just ticked over 100mm for March.

WYorksWeather Absolutely. At least the disgusting winter of 13/14 was interesting in how stormy it was.

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.

Good god there is no end in sight to the misery. GFS is utterly, utterly grim. I'm so glad I've got a holiday somewhere hot in mid-April.

Lovely couple of days for many of us in the south and east. Enjoy before perpetual Autumn returns.