Yet again what should be the best time of year has been reduced to a catastrophic write-off, with endless revolting conditions considerably more vile than would ever be expected at the worst time of year which used to be November to January.
Last Spring was just off the scale of horrors. Throughout April and May the nine Sundays averaged a spectacularly grim 1.6 hours of sunshine. With an average of 6.2 hours and standard deviation of 1.61 that was so far outside the normal range of variation it shouldn't have happened. Yet one year on we have endured a virtual repeat. A repeat of something that has an infinitesimally probability of happening just sums up the sickening horror of the garbage we are being subjected to without rhyme nor reason. With today looking like another zero sun day the average will end up barely any higher at 1.64 hours 🤬
Last years garbage Sunday totals:
3.7, 0, 2.7, 0.2, 0, 0, 3.2, 0, 4.6 🤢🤢🤢
and this year just more of the same ludicrous soul destroying filth that nowhere else on earth has to endure. Even the 7th April was crap as the 6 hours was mostly early and late and asides from that no other Sunday even managed 4 hours
6.0, 2.6, 0, 0, 1.1, 3.7, 1.4 🤢🤢🤢
Being constantly deprived of enjoyment and unable to do the things you want is just torture. A living hell in a zero quality of life hell hole. Bet even the Faeroe Isles have seen a sunny sunday during this time period.
It's not just the lack of sun. It's the rotten, filthy, claggy, murky gloom. The shockingly bad light levels and poor air quality that is purely a 21st Century phenomenon. Not even the worst Mays would have seen the stinking murky crud that has contaminated both this month and last May. It's truly inhuman having to endure this. Every time you leave the house it feels like being suffocated by a giant sponge.
This will be the first time that successive Mays have failed to reach 175 hours sun since 1972/73 but I can guarantee that that awful pair will have been nowhere near the same endurance test to have to suffer. There just wouldn't have been this vile murky clag day after day like nothing on earth we ever endured. You can tell that from the minima which in each year were around 5C where this year has seen an unprecedented 9C and it has been so excruciatingly awful lately it hasn't dropped out of double figures since Wednesday despite there being zero daytime warmth to speak of. It's only 10.4C now yet still didn't drop below 10C overnight and this is supposed to be the time of year that diurnal ranges are at there highest 🤬
Thursday saw a fresh all time low reached with a record number of sunless days for consecutive springs. 40 days beat the previous record of 39 in 1936/37 and 1983/84 and the poison just marches on relentlessly with today on course to be number 41 and 22 of the spring. Just three more now needed to equal the spring record of 25 in 1969 and 1983 🤮
Also going to be the first time since 1963/64 that sunshine has been below average in all six months of consecutive springs and also the first time since 1967-70 that four consecutive Mays failed to reach 200 hours. An absolute garbage run of awful springs, particularly May which has now seen below average sunshine 8 years out of 11. The one month of the year that you could rely on to produce a lot of decent weather completely spoiled 🤢
You just can't understate how repulsive the past 21 months have been. An utter car crash of consistent exceptionally poor weather that has been going on so long I think we can now say it even beats the notoriously bad periods in the 1870s and 1920s for sustained unrelenting hell. It's extremely worrying that there seems to be no end in sight to this repellent easterly dominated purgatory 🤮
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