Yet another spectacularly awful week of unrelenting hideously unpleasant and uninteresting crap. The same dross day in day out regardless of synoptics. 7C, cloudy and windy outside. Might as well have got dark at 4pm because there is zero reason to want to be outdoors in this 💩
One solitary dry day since the 15th despite pressure of over 1030mb. No other year in my records, going back to 2006, has failed to record a five day dry spell by this point. This year we had a four day dry spell in both January and February but the Spring has been so breathtakingly bad that there has been no more than two consecutive dry days 😱
Only 2018 failed to record a five day dry spell across March and April but even that managed a four day spell. The way this year is going it will be the first in recorded history not to have a fully dry week. Be as well measuring dry spells in hours if it can't even stay dry with pressure over 1030mb 🤢
An anticylonic northerly at this time used to bring cold frosty nights with clear skies but tedious infill cloud during the day. Any wind would drop out at sunset. By no means good but light years ahead of the current diabolical cloudy, windy, drizzly crud which feels far worse and colder than the proper cold we no longer get 🤬
This has been utterly wretched season, without any redeeming qualities. Anticyclones did not bring wind and rain like this day after day no matter what position they were situated. The relentless wind is even worse than the rain. It just never lets up which is why we haven't had any air frost since 4th March. Totally without precedent to be in that situation even had it been a warm spring which it most certainly has not.
Even horror springs like 1969 and 1983 did not see this sustained nasty rubbish. It's just relentless cloud/wind/rain with not a single calm, sunny day or calm clear night. It still looks like winter outside, with so many completely bare trees, and feels a hundred time worse with the same crap temperatures as late February but at least then it was sunny and dry 🙄🤮
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