https://www.eastsidecottages.co.uk/pentland-hills-webcam 

Click on the link to see another Edinburgh Spring day. It really is the worst I have known. May is turning out just like the horrible March and April.

It's the lack of sunlight that is so depressing at what can be a lovely time of year. We still have the heating on and even our lamps on in the late afternoon gloom.

The garden is a bedraggled colourless mess. A lot of the bulbs and perennials that would normally have flowered by now, haven't appeared and I'm not sure they will. 

I keep hoping at the start of each week things will improve but today it is gloomy and wet and expected to be 13 C. Tomorrow cloudy and damp 12 C 🤢
 

All being well the latter part of this week is looking very pleasant. Hopefully. 

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https://www.eastsidecottages.co.uk/pentland-hills-webcam 

Click on the link to see another Edinburgh Spring day. It really is the worst I have known. May is turning out just like the horrible March and April.

It's the lack of sunlight that is so depressing at what can be a lovely time of year. We still have the heating on and even our lamps on in the late afternoon gloom.

The garden is a bedraggled colourless mess. A lot of the bulbs and perennials that would normally have flowered by now, haven't appeared and I'm not sure they will. 

I keep hoping at the start of each week things will improve but today it is gloomy and wet and expected to be 13 C. Tomorrow cloudy and damp 12 C 🤢
 

According to the 1991-2020 averages, May is actually the sunniest month of the year on average at Edinburgh Gogarbank despite the fact that we're still more than a month away from the summer solstice as I write.

By the end of today, we will be almost a whole week into May (we will only be short of that by a day) and yet, we have only had a total of 11.6 hours of sunshine during this month which is only 6.1% of the 1991-2020 May average and yet at this time of the year, we should be capable of getting more than that in just a single day.

In addition to that, just the measly total of 0.2 hours of sunshine were recorded over the entire weekend which has just passed with Saturday being completely sunless.

Yet, we have now entered into what should be the lightest period of the year. This is therefore, the very time of year when we really need to be getting some decent sunshine totals if this entire year is to have any chance of being sunnier than average overall.

As I write though, we still haven't had a sunnier than average month here since January, a time of year when that actually adds very little to overall total for the entire year due to that month coming just after the winter solstice.

This means that unless we get a change to a much sunnier pattern of weather very soon, this year is already looking odds on to be duller than average and that is before we have even got to the halfway point in the year.🤢

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Yet another day waking up to complete and utter garbage. What an absolute 💩 hole this is. Every single day off is the same. Soul destroying grey filth that just sits there sucking the life out of everything.

The Weekend Curse has just been ludicrous for 18 months now but if you added in all the vile public holidays it would look even worse. Can't remember the last decent one or even partly decent one. It's just endless wrist-slitting grey every single day off. No better than a life of slavery if you are never getting any enjoyment out of life. Constantly denied the ability to do the things you want to do. Trapped like a prisoner in the house. I cannot emphasise how much I despise living here with no quality of life whatsoever 🤬

I didn't think it was possible to get the vile horrific car crash of a May Holiday Weekend we were forced to endure last year but this year is just the same if not worse. Three days of horrific, beyond depressing grey clag that won't shift. Two years on the trot looking like producing fewer than 2 hours of sun across the three days. You just couldn't make it up. This is supposed to be the sunniest month of the year but it's just turned into a complete disaster over the past decade. We finally got rid of the permacast hell Junes but all it did was transfer to May to ruin this month year after year 🤬

It's so ridiculous that even early November hasn't been this consistently awful despite being a terrible month since 2018. Only one year in the past decade has seen under 2 hours sun for the first Monday of the month plus the preceeding weekend. The best month of the year reduced to being worse than the worst year after year.

A nightmare that just keeps on intensifying with each month of rotten stinking crud that passes. There is nothing decent in the outlook at all. Just more horrifically wet garbage according to this http://wxmaps.org/pix/prec4  which seems to show a Scandinivian High developing but not in time to rescue my holiday in Sweden which is looking beyond horrific with stupefyingly low temperatures forecast for my arrival on Wednesday afternoon. Just one kick in the teeth after another 🤮🤮🤮

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. Not the biggest fan of sunshine myself, but I sort of need a spell of it now to help dry out the garden and get the knee high grass cut. 

Couldn't stand looking at it any longer so broke out the flymo yesterday evening. Grass and soil so wet it stank to high heaven of putrified rain water as I cut, not to mention that a lot of the grass was readily pulled up from the roots by the lawnmower. This is typically the driest period of the year for here, but drying is as poor as it is in December. 

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Another lovely day warm mostly sunny day and house temps now very decent 25C so while bedroom coolest 22C will put summer light quilt tomorrow.  Conservatory helped a lot to warm indoors well was 34C yesterday and same today but was 39.2 because I got up late after working night shift to open the doors to let the heat in as it was 20.5 living room.

Awful completely sunless day making three out of three totally vile days in the worst May Holiday Weekend ever endured. Two years on the trot where the three days have failed to total even two hours sun is beyond disgusting. Can't imagine any previous occasion when it would have been this bad. Even 1983 managed 3 hours in total and, until now, that truly represented the nadir of spring weather 🤮

Every year between 2007 and 2013, except 2010, managed at least 20 hours whereas this has now been reached only once since 2014 demonstrating just how poor a month May has become since then. Even the rotten 2010 holiday was better than any of the past three repugnant offerings which are so far from acceptable it's beyond surreal.

May Holiday Weekend Sunshine

2024 (4-6 May): 1.1 🤢🤢
2023 (29 Apr – 1 May): 1.7🤢🤢
2022 (30 Apr – 2 May): 8.1🤢
2021 (1-3 May): 15.1
2020 (8-10 May): 13.8
2019 (4-6 May): 18.3
2018 (5-7 May): 23.5😎
2017 (29 Apr – 1 May): 6.0🤢
2016 (30 Apr – 2 May): 19.7
2015 (2-4 May): 17.1
2014 (3-5 May):13.4
2013 (4-6 May): 28.1😎
2012 (5-7 May): 20.0
2011 (30 Apr – 2 May): 34.9😎😎
2010 (1-3 May): 9.8🤢
2009 (2-4 May):21.1
2008 (3-5 May): 23.5😎
2007 (5-7 May): 27.0😎

At the time the 2007-12 period seemed like a truly dire era due to the worst run of summers in recorded history. At least we had good springs and even some good winters. What the hell do we have now? Absolutely nothing. The winters are the pits, the springs are the equivalent of the 2007-12 summers, the summers are nowhere near as bad as then but still not great and autumns are as hideous as ever. The decade with nothing to offer. That is the 2020s 🙄🤬
 

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That was an unexpectedly pleasant BH weekend.

Almost totally dry, a fair bit of sunshine, decent temps.

Given through most of last week the forecast was for lots of showers, it worked out very well.

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That was an unexpectedly pleasant BH weekend.

Almost totally dry, a fair bit of sunshine, decent temps.

Given through most of last week the forecast was for lots of showers, it worked out very well.

Yes all under low pressure but seem today this pest HP might be cloudy one like today totally over cast skies against sunny forecast from today onward.

Yes all under low pressure but seem today this pest HP might be cloudy one like today totally over cast skies against sunny forecast from today onward.

Looks like we've got each other's forecast conditions. It was supposed to be pretty cloudy today but it's ended up mainly sunny. Very similar to Sunday & Monday.

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Looks like we've got each other's forecast conditions. It was supposed to be pretty cloudy today but it's ended up mainly sunny. Very similar to Sunday & Monday.

Just down the road here (home) it's been cloudy all day. Mild, still and not a hint of a threat of rain, so essentially pleasant enough... but no sun.

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Another lovely day here today. Maxed out at 20c, with sunshine from around 11am. Still 20c here now

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Just down the road here (home) it's been cloudy all day. Mild, still and not a hint of a threat of rain, so essentially pleasant enough... but no sun.

Within 30 mins of posting that, most of the cloud had dissolved leaving us with a beautiful evening.

 

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No sunshine for the 2nd day in a row here, yet not an unpleasant day. Very warm too. Cloudsheet was higher and more full of feature than the usual low, featureless white grey. 

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Surprised the sun came out around lunchtime here, thought it would be cloudy all day. Looks lovely for a few days now.

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The horrific permacast hell continues in the East of Scotland with day after day of unabated misery🤬

I'm currently in Edinburgh experiencing the same dire grey overcast skies as when I was last here in November. Seen almost no sun since last Friday. I just can't adequately express how angry and depressed this demoralising rubbish is making me feel. It's the worst spell of weather of the whole revolting endurance test Spring.

May used to be the best month of the year but now it's been ruined beyond belief by being infiltrated by the 21st century clagfest hell.

Can now see this spring turning out as dull as 1983, a horror show outlier so bad that it should have a return period of centuries. There is just nothing that will produce anything remotely decent any more.


 

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It's looking like a very pleasant spell of weather coming up for much of the next 4 or 5:days. It feels like it has been a long time in coming.

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Been a very interesting week.
Nice warmth. 
Biggest flash flood/thunderstorm event here on Monday since maybe the 80's.
Best Aurora show in a generation .
Maybe some more storms later, the NW getting hit now.  
 

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Beautiful weekend here, so much better than expected - even the rain kept off until evening.

More please, through the whole of the summer.
 

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Reached a peak of 24.1 C at 2.30 pm today, that was on my Vantage Davis station so I'd say that was the warmest day of this year (so far). 

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Beautiful weekend here, so much better than expected - even the rain kept off until evening.

More please, through the whole of the summer.
 

More of the last BH weekend weather please, don't want dirty hazy cloudy HP cells in the summer months, this one thankfully exiting so hope to see sharp blue skies in between which last seen over the BH weekend before the infected dirty HP moved in make matter worse.  Still dirty skies above but should hope clear as HP finally get out of the way.