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Roger Parsons
20 April 2024 16:24:12

The conservatory nearly complete yesterday and as he put the glass and roofing in it got warmer and wafted inside to bring livng room temps to 20.5C first time since early October without heating.  Today sunny start to mid day reached pleasant 30.2C after a very cold mornng at 2.2C so must be well below 0C outside with air frost.  Living room was 16.5C rose to comfortable 22C warmth now 21C and 24C as it dropping quickly so will close the french doors to stop the warm escaping outward to the conservatory. This a lifeline for us and worth it to get some much need warmth comfort.  Heating not going to be turn on but yesterday did turn on for shower time.

Originally Posted by: Jiries 

👍 Sounds great, Jires - well done. Our house is difficult beast to run efficiently - it's over 300 years old and listed! 😬 There are rules on what we are allowed to do. We are about to have our windows worked on to reduce draughts. We have insulating blinds that make an impressive difference. It is also good that the house faces east-west - so we get morning and afternoon sun in through the windows!
RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
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Jiries
20 April 2024 16:33:13

👍 Sounds great, Jires - well done. Our house is difficult beast run efficiently - it's over 300 years old and listed! 😬 There are rules on what we are allowed to do. We are about to have our windows worked on to reduce draughts. We have insulating blinds that make an impressive difference. It is also good that the house faces east-west - so we get morning and afternoon sun in through the windows!

Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons 



Mine facing SSE to NWW direction so we get some sun from 6pm to sunset time at the north side with briefly sun in the early morning sunrise.  Buying a house I did a great study on the map of the house position as I don't want a N to S or other way with worst offending is north facing garden that we endured in Epsom for 39 years.
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richardabdn
21 April 2024 09:31:20
Yet another Sunday scraped from the bowels of hell. In fact it's clear that there is no hell. The worst of humanity just get reincarnated and forced to live here. The most miserable bleak and depressing hole on earth where you can't even enjoy half a life. The quality of life is just so bad as to be non-existent. Feels like serving a life sentence in a dark cave being served up this poison weekend after weekend.

It's clear now that this purgatory is never going to end when as in January we are seeing 1030-1040mb high pressure giving the exact same rank  wet, cold, grey, unusable filth. In fact it's even worse. More chance of actually seeing sun at 980mb. This has been by far the worst of the three utterly dire weekends this putrefying awful month has produced. It's the worst weekend since the completely sunless horror show of 9th/10th March.

Now in the final third of April and it's 6C grey and wet with 1033mb pressure. Nowhere else on earth would a weekend of high pressure translate to a weekend of cloud and rain 🤬Nowhere else on earth is still getting the same crap temperatures in late April as in the totally useless non-winter. Everywhere else has warmed up considerably by now. 

Hate is far too mild for the feelings of revulsion I experience constantly at having to live in this hideous hellhole unfit for human habitation. It's no better than slavery having to work all week then getting zero opportunity to do anything enjoyable at the weekend 🤢🤢🤢🤢

 
Aberdeen: The only place that misses out on everything


2023 - The Year that's Constantly Worse than a Bad November
2024 - 2023 without the Good Bits
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Crepuscular Ray
22 April 2024 06:50:16
Loving the description Richard 😂

I've just spent a freezing, damp weekend on the Berwickshire Coast. Max temp over the 2 days, 8 C!! Soul destroying.

I sometimes wonder why people endure the NE UK climate. Luckily I'm retired, next winter I'm hoping to spend some considerable time in The Algarve 😎
Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill
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22 April 2024 07:35:51
Just when you think the superlatives couldn’t get any better they do.
The only crumb of comfort you can draw, is the prediction that in six months time it will be even worse than today. The picture you paint of life in the NE is truly apocalyptic.
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DEW
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22 April 2024 07:44:16

Loving the description Richard 😂

I've just spent a freezing, damp weekend on the Berwickshire Coast. Max temp over the 2 days, 8 C!! Soul destroying.

I sometimes wonder why people endure the NE UK climate. Luckily I'm retired, next winter I'm hoping to spend some considerable time in The Algarve 😎

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray 



Will 90 days really be enough? (the limit unless you get a long-stay visa)
War does not determine who is right, only who is left - Bertrand Russell

Chichester 12m asl
Jiries
22 April 2024 08:10:16
Perhaps the TWO headline forecast should be more realistic regarding patchy rain or showers.   I seen many times showers but in reality is outbreak of rain and overcast.  Showere meaning full sunshine in between showers with avril cloud tops and like today patchy rain moving southward but actually it extremely widespread moderate rain. Patchy rain mean very few drops of rain that barely wet the ground?

Yesterday was really pleasant indoors with temps rose to 23.5c while the Concservatory was 30.4C and 7C at night.  MIght not happen today but rest of this week with northerly flow tht will bring sharp blue skies and cold nights so by day time should warm up nicely indoors without heating needed.
johncs2016
22 April 2024 15:55:25
According to wxweather.com, the highest recorded temperature as I write is around 18°C in the SW of the Irish Republic with the UK's highest temperatures being recorded rather unusually in SW Scotland. There, the highest temperature which I can see is around 16°C at Glasgow Airport.

Here in Edinburgh, we were at around 14°C and even that is still warmer than most other parts of the UK just now, even down south.

I know that the south of England briefly had temperatures of over 20°C not all that long ago although given that it now so much cooler down there, that probably feels like a very distant memory.

Here in Edinburgh, we haven't yet had any temperatures of 20°C or above during this year so far and although 14°C is still a little bit above average for the time of year here, it is still very disappointing to be only getting those sorts of temperatures with high pressure in such close proximity, especially given that we are now into the time of year when it is possible to get temperatures of over 20°C even here in Edinburgh under the right conditions.
 
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.
Crepuscular Ray
22 April 2024 20:09:04

Will 90 days really be enough? (the limit unless you get a long-stay visa)

Originally Posted by: DEW 



I'd love to spend 90 days there DEW, Jan - Mar, nothing but gloom, and rain for us these days
Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill
LeedsLad123
23 April 2024 00:39:10
Spending winter in the Med sounds like a good idea to me - I would much rather spend 3 months in the Algarve between January and March than say June to August when it will be a bit too hot. Similar to the Canadian snowbirds who spend winter in Florida before returning to Canada in the spring to avoid the horrid Floridian heat and humidity (and hurricanes!).

Winters in Europe north of the Pyrenees are so depressing - heck, even in northern and central Spain they can be quite rubbish with a lot of rain and cloud. The Costa del Sol and the Algarve are the places to be for sure in the winter.
Whitkirk, Leeds - 85m ASL.
richardabdn
23 April 2024 17:35:54
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 🙄🤮
Aberdeen: The only place that misses out on everything


2023 - The Year that's Constantly Worse than a Bad November
2024 - 2023 without the Good Bits
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Bolty
24 April 2024 19:38:47
The past week or so has easily been the best of the spring so far (not that it has much contest, mind you). It's not as warm as I'd like at this stage in April, but I'm not really bothered as the main thing was shifting that endless, horrid wind and rain. Hopefully we're going back into a drier and more settled period now, but I won't hold my breath just yet.
Scott
Blackrod, Lancashire (4 miles south of Chorley) at 156m asl.
My weather station 
picturesareme
24 April 2024 20:58:40
The often sunny but windy weather, and low dew points of the past couple of weeks has allowed for some significant drying off.

Water logged fields are now dryed & cracked mud patches, and the grass is covered in lush green grass & wildflowers such as daisies & dandelion.
MRazzell
25 April 2024 07:40:43
I agree - The ground has firmed up and the landscape is looking really verdant.

On our first 'warm' weekend a couple of weeks back (13th April) the garden was buzzing with insect life including a great many butterflies. Since then its been really cold and i'm now concerned that the invertebrates have taken a bit of a hit after what looked like a promising start for them.

Its also been so chilly that i havn't bothered with sowing my tomatos this year and worry that i may have missed the boat.

The last two or three Aprils have been really poor down here in the South East. My glasses may be rose tinted but April always used to feel like such a pleasant month with the odd showers (including the odd bit of snow) but plenty of warmth and amenable weather in between. Not so now.
Matt.
Jiries
25 April 2024 08:08:06

I agree - The ground has firmed up and the landscape is looking really verdant.

On our first 'warm' weekend a couple of weeks back (13th April) the garden was buzzing with insect life including a great many butterflies. Since then its been really cold and i'm now concerned that the invertebrates have taken a bit of a hit after what looked like a promising start for them.

Its also been so chilly that i havn't bothered with sowing my tomatos this year and worry that i may have missed the boat.

The last two or three Aprils have been really poor down here in the South East. My glasses may be rose tinted but April always used to feel like such a pleasant month with the odd showers (including the odd bit of snow) but plenty of warmth and amenable weather in between. Not so now.

Originally Posted by: MRazzell 



Cold in April are normal for few days but having prolonged overcast and severe cold days for weeks is not normal.   Northerlies in April used to give full sunshine as in Jan did but this time too much clouds with mild nights but raw cold days.   I think i will see only warm to hot weather for 2024 when I go to Philppines,  Yesterday severe cold and cloudy weather was thwarted as my conservatory which still warm up to keep in door temps at 19C instead of 15-16C.    UK nasty climate is now really going to end up like Faroes Island climate and it happening now. and losing valuable day ight hours by being stuck indoors all the time.
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richardabdn
27 April 2024 08:29:09
You would think that after such a vile first half of April the second half could only offer improvement but no it's been even worse 🤬

Absolutely disgusting all week again. Cold and unpleasant with rain every day 😴Just one dry day since the 15th and that was cold with under an hour of sun🤮 Highest temperature 12.2C and that was another vile day where it was 7C and raining most of the time. Just unreal. There hasn't been single decent or acceptable day the entire second half. Worse than any period from the wettest dark season in over 140 years 🤢

Now yet another horror weekend to endure. 7C and sunless. It's just utterly wretched. Cloud stuck over the region for no apparant reason other than it's the weekend. I used to go out a lot for day trips at this time of year now I can barely be bothered to get out of bed. Utterly soul destroying. Can't even imagine life in the Faeroe Islands being this poor and worthless 🤬

Last April had the worst weekend weather I've ever known with a repugnant daily average of 2.46 hours sun. The worst I've recorded by a country mile but it looks like this year could end up even lower. It is truly staggeringly awful. More grim than any words could describe. Whatever happens it is a certainty that the three worst Aprils in my records for weekend weather will be 2022, 2023, 2024. Three absolutely grotesque, truly repellent Aprils on the trot. Sickening, vile, write-off depressing horror three years in a row 🤢🤢🤢

 
Aberdeen: The only place that misses out on everything


2023 - The Year that's Constantly Worse than a Bad November
2024 - 2023 without the Good Bits
Crepuscular Ray
27 April 2024 09:29:20
Well I feel a lot better. Mon to Fri this week has been mostly sunny in Edinburgh, starting mild but getting colder each day. This weekend I'm in Newcastle and both yesterday and today, so far, the sun has shone strongly with deep blue sky, quite cold though. Apparently Scarborough has had 7-9 C maximums for 9 days!
Looks like a washout to come tomorrow in Newcastle 🌧🌧
Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill
springsunshine
27 April 2024 09:35:13
At the risk of sounding like Richard from Aberdeen,this april/spring has been absolutly dire! Apart from 3 decent days temperature wise a fortnight ago this month has been soaking wet and stormy prior to this then very cold with persistant nort/north east winds. Its now the end of April and we still have winter temperatures with daytime maxes barley creeping into double digits. It was warmer around christmas and most of February!
I would like to know why almost every single April/May we get more northerly winds than the rest of the year put together??
Another year where winter goes on into May!!
Ffs when is it going to warm up.
Jiries
27 April 2024 10:17:24

At the risk of sounding like Richard from Aberdeen,this april/spring has been absolutly dire! Apart from 3 decent days temperature wise a fortnight ago this month has been soaking wet and stormy prior to this then very cold with persistant nort/north east winds. Its now the end of April and we still have winter temperatures with daytime maxes barley creeping into double digits. It was warmer around christmas and most of February!
I would like to know why almost every single April/May we get more northerly winds than the rest of the year put together??
Another year where winter goes on into May!!
Ffs when is it going to warm up.

Originally Posted by: springsunshine 



That the question when it will warm up so having a conservatory is a must and took action to install one due to never ending phantom cold and wet weather outside.   Yesterday reached 26C despite outside very raw cold temps which give indoors temps to 20C, without that it would be 15-16C inside in late April.   We are left 7 weeks of useable daylight hours before drawing in again so another severe loss like last year.  
Saint Snow
27 April 2024 11:18:29
Last few days, the forecast for Sunday was morning light rain/showers giving way to dry & sunny, particularly decent to out north.

Plans made for a nip to the Lakes.

Today, the forecast has flipped and it'll be rainy/showery there until well into the afternoon.

It's a pretty typical scenario for this country, and feels especially so in recent years. Just makes planning with any certainty an absolute farce. And why I generally hate the weather in this country.

Martin
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doctormog
27 April 2024 13:01:23
It’s turning into a lovely sunny day here today and although on the cool side it was perfect weather for a nice walk along the beach.
Aberdeen
Current conditions (personal WS) 
Jiries
27 April 2024 15:00:48

It’s turning into a lovely sunny day here today and although on the cool side it was perfect weather for a nice walk along the beach.

Originally Posted by: doctormog 



Hope Richard is happy with it now.  😀
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doctormog
27 April 2024 15:21:13

Hope Richard is happy with it now.  😀

Originally Posted by: Jiries 



I will let you guess the answer to that one!  I have just cut the grass too and even sat out in the garden for a while.😎
Aberdeen
Current conditions (personal WS) 
fairweather
28 April 2024 12:03:55
How much worse can it get?? Probably this is the low point of the "Spring". 7.5C at 12.30pm, strong, biting wind and cloudy with outbreaks of rain after 17mm since yesterday. Would have been 20cm of snow if we could have got this in January.S>Easterlies always deliver here if there is a cold drag off the continent. Quite an achievement given it is May in 3 days time. Usually to be this cold would involve showery northerlies or NW lies with temperatures dropping in the showers. Roll on next week.
S.Essex, 42m ASL
Jiries
28 April 2024 13:34:57

How much worse can it get?? Probably this is the low point of the "Spring". 7.5C at 12.30pm, strong, biting wind and cloudy with outbreaks of rain after 17mm since yesterday. Would have been 20cm of snow if we could have got this in January.S>Easterlies always deliver here if there is a cold drag off the continent. Quite an achievement given it is May in 3 days time. Usually to be this cold would involve showery northerlies or NW lies with temperatures dropping in the showers. Roll on next week.

Originally Posted by: fairweather 



That true on the last part as before we get cold weather in April with below 10C maxes come with rain, hail and snow showers with lovely cloudscape and avrils tops follow by plus 10 hours sunshine with some frost over night, very fresh air type with real short lived cold set-up but this time phantom nasty cold without sun or weather action.  

Part of the UK variety for Spring season had completely gone for good, it been replaced with Autumn repeat patterns.  At least the variety weather pattern package is including settled with warm to very warm Spring sunny days.

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