Doesn’t feel like it. Tomorrow is the last day of the seventh month of winter. Temps are still around five degrees here in the mornings with maximums around ten. Lots of rain and more wind and storms this winter than I can ever remember. It really is bloody awful.
Now we’re heading into May which is always wet.
I find it so depressing.
It felt quite spring-like here this afternoon, up around 13-14 degrees, and the rest of the week is supposed to be more like 17-18. April is always hit and miss and seems to flip between winter and spring all month, sometimes multiple times a day...Originally Posted by TaketheCannoli
Dave E
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
We seem to be bypass spring and autumn these days, I had the fire on this afternoon, cold wet and windy.
We will get up one day and it will suddenly be 23 degrees and summer will have arrived.
It’s certainly neither pleasant nor seasonal but if it was a long wet spell it was certainly far from being a really cold winter.
Thing is, often 5°C and wet feel colder than -5°C dry.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Its fing depressing, the garden is a mess, constantly wet, the grass seed i have put down as done naff all and ive still got the bloody fire on….its abysmal.
Heating still on at about 75% capacity.
Off to Portugal golfing Thursday thankfully.
I've been moaning about it also for the past couple of months. It's been far colder for longer than usual. Strange how fuel prices are high and the cold is going on for longer. I'm beginning to believe the conspiracy theories of weather control.
Hasn’t stopped raining here in North Norfolk for months. Various phone apps say things like ‘rain not expected for 2 days’ then literally an hour later it’s raining! Signs afoot of change today though - car showed 15c, I had a trip to the dentist and then did a bit of shopping just wearing a T shirt! (And jeans I’m not a naturist!)- even turned the heating off on the top 2 floors of the house! - probably being rash and it’ll snow tomorrow?!?
Jim Dale, meteorologist extraordinaire, says we’ll have a heatwave in April.
So probably be tomorrow then.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/new...-b2513688.html
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
In Dorset, we get a few hours each week of sunshine and warmth and then back to cold wind and and rain.
I work at home and because I tend to mostly sit for the day, I’m still wearing a few layers to keep warm.
Really demoralising as the moment I get out of bed I’m freezing
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Certainly looks to have been a rough, wet start to the year, hope it improves.
We put topsoil and over seeded a few weeks ago, it has done nothing and the original grass is now looking like it needs a cut FFS.
Worse for farmers though, having a terrible time, too wet to harvest, crops gone rotten, too wet to plant.
Listening to Laura who does the weather on GMB the outlook for the rest of Spring and Summer is higher then average rainfall that’s after the wettest 18 months the UK has ever seen. She also said there have been very few places that have seen a Cloudless daytime sky in that time.
With that information I immediately booked to go to Spain to our friends next week, then the whole of June, and while there will book long term Villa rental for Sep Oct and Nov
My niece’s husband works for the company that produces potatoes for McCain and Walkers. His half million pound state of the art tractor Sunk in the field earlier this month.
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Half a million quid? It’s not even a Lamborghini!My niece’s husband works for the company that produces potatoes for McCain and Walkers. His half million pound state of the art tractor Sunk in the field earlier this month.
Meanwhile, we’ve had a couple of dry days down here with a coolish breeze so I managed to cut some of the lawn yesterday. It looks like staying dry today so hopefully I can get the front done this evening and maybe even finish the back.
Still sporting full thermals down here in "sunny" Hampshire ... I do make it outside for an hour's walk every day and bizarrely have quite a good facial tan ... probably more wind blasted than the effects of the sun though LOL.
Fear not. We have warmer days coming and usually, we're a week or so ahead.
Even here on sandy soil, farmers face the problems of the ultra-wet ground. The only thing that grows like mad is grass. Last night, a farmer was up to 2AM mowing the grass somewhere nearby. I could hear the tractor and mower buzzing.
My solar panels 'catch' ±1/3 less than 2022 April. In fact, all of 2024 is not what we had last year. (And yes, the panels are clean). There's simply no sun to see. Still every month, the Meteo Office mentions "The hottest day of Jan/Feb/Mar/... since we started collecting data." A fine example that 'warm and hot' do not always go together with 'sunny and nice'.
Lovely sunny morning here in South Yorkshire , although a little chilly . Hopefully it stays sunny and warms up later in the day .
I FEEL LIKE I'M DIAGONALLY PARKED IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Love that, wore 5 layers playing golf last Wednesday in Essex, wind was cutting you in half. On Sunday, the morning was a deluge struggling to get above 6 degrees, but in the afternoon temperatures doubled, just to give us hope. Spain & Portugal have taken a battering as well in the last few weeks, so its not just us. I'm going to cut the lawn today, first time this month wish me luck!
Lucky you.
It must be getting warmer
The builders working on the house opposite are both shirtless this morning!
It’s a nice day but not quite shirt off weather.
It is for the TZ gang ;)
Got a new watch, divers watch it is, had to drown the bastard to get it!
In answer to your question David, no!
Beautifully warm and sunny today.
Took Dot out and then did some work on the mower.
Wife went to the local garden centre for coffee and natter with her pals.
Cheers,
Neil.
Ahhh, chucking down again, despite the promise of warmer weather. Now cold wind and rain. Delightful.
I long to escape this country.
Nice here in Lincs atm. Warm and sunny, if rather windy. But got the grass cut and washing on the line. Can't use the bad weather as an excuse for not doing anything today.
The weather waited for this opening post!
A beautiful cycling commute, and even at 8am I only needed a light jumper.
Beautiful day today, along with some healthy looking farmland. Shocking!
Aaaaand the result of the Dutch Meteo Jury is in:
‘Wettest month of Aprilin 100 years’
‘Hours of sunshine parts of the country, in April halved compared with April’s average.’
I hope so the weather has been nuts recently, having to keep switching the heating on.
We will have a short mediocre summer and straight into autumn.
I believe a replacement bus service will take us directly to winter.
Its the wind that is the killer, last 3/4 weeks its been windy nearly every day turning normal days into cold ones and nice sunny days like today into normal ones.
Sod’s Law, it’s been lovely today 🤣
Great for the wind farms.
Heating turned down tonight to 50% boiler temp.
Came here to say the same. Sat outside in the sun for a good while. Felt amazing. I’ve been cold since about September!!
First day since September we've not had the heating on. Back to drizzle and mist today but we have the memories
Was a lovely sunny 18 deg C here yesterday and going by my walk this morning should be the same again today:
First day for a while that it’s been pleasant, went for a 5 mile run/walk around and over Bidston Hill, sun shining, gentle breeze and an ever so gentle warm feeling in that breeze. I’ll take that, isn’t that what spring is supposed to feel like. Probably be lashing down tomorrow.
Yup rain tomorrow and Friday, heavy showers at the weekend. So back to normal.
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