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SunSean did you copy this from Markyo’s diary? I am of course, just playing

With the outlook looking as awful as it does, is there at least any sign of any convective activity in the models?

Nick L it’s the wind! When the wind stops it’s absolutely fine (if I stand at a certain angle in my back garden behind a wall it almost feels like it could be spring)

Just walked the dog in thermals and my huge winter coat and bobble hat. The wind is absolutely raw. Just in the process of booking the second of two holidays abroad this summer (Spain in June and south of France in august). I’m not letting the god awful climate of this place ruin my mental and physical health for 2 years running

raz.org.rain I do remember thinking in like Feb ‘at least this spring can’t be as bad as the last one’ A cautionary tale to never tempt fate.

CryoraptorA303 I’ve lived where I live in Andover since 2015 and can confirm the grass here in the parks and along verges goes brown pretty much every summer - apart from last summer. Definitely not just a London thing.

CryoraptorA303 seasonality would make me happy personally. I’m not even crazy about snow but it is cool around Christmas and in winter time. mellow mists and fog in autumn etc. It really hasn’t been much better here to be fair - it still rains most days only now it’s much colder which makes it even more disgusting. I would honestly rather have the milder SWlies back because at least I didn’t have to have the heating on every morning and night and be wrapped up indoors like I’m on a sledging expedition to Svalbard.

SunnyG I wish I could. My mate relocated to Dijon for work about six years ago - and although that’s not right down south, it still enjoys much better weather than here. Whenever I ask him if he’s thinking of coming back he laughs like a maniac.

CryoraptorA303 I disagree with this because unless you like mild(ish) and absolutely sodden, very few people have enjoyed the last 8 months. Warmies and Coldies alike. I would argue you are in the minority for finding something positive in the absolute ghastly period of weather we find ourselves in.

I can see a cheeky 15 degrees popping up in my weather app towards day ten. That would be exciting in early February

Don I can only hope

It can’t be called a ‘spell’ anymore, so the worst ‘era’ of weather I have ever experienced this (since the end of summer 22). Im genuinely worried this new awfulness has stuck and will be our default moving forwards (with the odd small window of respite like June 23 and the week in September) The three summer months will have to be absolutely phenomenal now to salvage this year because May looks just as uninspiring and by the time we get to the end of July the nights are drawing back in and we gear up for at least another 8 months of dross. Thank Christ I am actually going on holiday this year if only for a week.

Spent barely any time outside today. It was Baltic in that wind. Heating on tonight.

Son’s first birthday party today. looks like it’s going to be an indoor affair because despite it being dry and quite bright, the endless raging cyclonic wind will make it thoroughly miserable to be outside in.

Oh sick it’s raining here again. only 9 weeks until the nights start drawing in

Yeah plumes are pretty pants here nowadays too (in actual summer) - the cold front pushes through and just shunts the warm air out the way rather than going bang (haven’t had a summer plume storm here since 2019) May and September however have both delivered for here over the past couple years. I think we’ve had a crazy nighttime strobe show in both those months for two years running. Hard to imagine plumes and storms when the weather has been the equivalent of beige for 8 months solid now.

I’m gonna go for 24th May which is depressing.

lmao how tf is it getting somehow even worse for later next week?! I think i need to log off for a bit and come back in June.

richie3846 at least they had a heatwave. We had a mildripple

In Absence of True Seasons it’s that super annoying situation where I go out to my car wrapped up in winter jacket with bobble hat on because it’s freezing but where the strong sun has been shining on my car, it’s roasting hot inside. You get undressed again and drive to your destination before having to get dressed again once you get there because you forget it’s the Siberian tundra out there.

reef fair enough! we’ve still had about 5 weeks of nice weather in the last 80 which is very uncool.

Don the three week spell in June was wonderful - I have zero complaints there (apart from lack of storms) but July was a horror movie and august was painfully mediocre. 3 out of 12 weeks is quite poor.

reef I don’t remember it being particularly nice - was it propped up by warm nights? Summer 23 was also apparently one of the ‘warmest ever’ or at least above average according to the stats but anyone with eyes would say it sucked.

Don we did - but we’re now on 4 crap springs on the trot and one good summer out of 3. I wouldn’t be AS concerned if summer last year hadn’t been so awful. I didn’t think it was really possible to have an utterly dreadful spring AND summer but we managed it last year and now I worry this year will head the same way. We’ve had like 4-5 nice weeks since the end of summer 22 which translates to roughly 4-5 weeks in the past EIGHTY. Or 35 days in the past 560 its horrendous.

So the rest of April looks uninspired and cold - if May is the same then I feel we can definitely say something has really tangibly changed in our climate since 2020 which is worrying. I can’t cope with 9/10 months of autumn/winter every year.