Sunshine totals for the last 5 weekend days here: 1.7, 2.1, 0.9, 2.8, 2.1
Utter horrific run that you think could only come from the depths of winter but even then you would struggle to get such a long run without even one day managing 3 hours
Even worse than it looks because it all comes in dribs and drabs throughout the day. Doubt any of the totally rank days managed more than about 20 minutes of continuous sunshine
After that putrid run you would think things could only get better but no they get even worse. Another absolute abomination of a Sunday with full overcast, drizzle and appalling temperatures. Such an extensive blanket of cloud that a total of 0.0 would seem a possibility
The worst run of summer weekend weather since 2012 and only 2007 and 2012 have produced 6 consecutive weekend days all failing to manage 3 hours sun. 3 hours is in no way decent or acceptable total for a summer day and we can't even manage that. It's beyond surreal.
Just two Sundays in this diabolical summer have managed 5 hours of sun. Even 2012 managed 4 and 2007 had 3
I struggle to recall anything this grim in November. Even horrors like 2014, 2018 and 2019 didn't have three weekends of ultra depressing sunless garbage like this
I thought the Augusts of 2007 and 2018 were ridiculous for the weekend curse but this month is in another league of awful. 5.4 hours average for the weekdays and less than 2 hours at the weekend. In other words, perfectly normal weather during the week then permacast horror all weekend long. The past Tuesday and Wedneday were dreadful but the previous week both days were glorious whereas the rotten weekend garbage is never compensated for.
This is such a dire and depressing August it makes the likes of 2008 seem decent. For the third successive weekend I have been stuck at home unable to the the things I enjoy with nothing to look forward to but another week stuck in the house. A truly miserable and soul destroying existence.
Can't go for any long walks anywhere or long cycles because of the repulsive weekend weather. Can't partake in any photography. Can't sit out in the garden for more than about 10 minutes at a time. Can't travel abroad to escape this godawful weather. Can't do anything I enjoy doing
I have had fitbit for nearly four years and have never been as inactive before as I have in this abhorrent joke of a summer month. According to the fitbit I have been averaging 24 'very active' minutes a day which is 14 minutes less than the previous worst performing month and well under half the average. Yet this is supposed to be a summer month.
I would say I despise living in this utter hole but that wouldn't even begin to describe my feelings of utter revulsion about the appalling quality of life I have to suffer courtesy of one of the most horrifically depressing climates to be found anywhere on the planet
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