Spring turned out to be only the fourth in 50 years to fail to reach 400 hours sun. The other years were 1976, 1983 and 1993. Now we are enduring a vile summer that is even worse than 1993. That was the dullest Spring/Summer in the past 80 years and it felt nowhere near as bad as this filth. Not remotely.
Horrendously cold, dull and wet. Has reached 16C only once since the 4th and there's been only one day with 10 hours sun since 22nd May while the running 12-month rainfall total continues to climb to new levels of putrifying horror. It was ludicrous a long time ago. There are no words for it now.
As cold as it's been 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020 were all even colder. Hotter drier summers? Like hell there is. If you look back to the 1960s only the first half of June 1965 was as cold as any of that rubbish. The 1960s are no longer the nadir for summers. The 21st Century is.
Just revolting beyond comprehension. Constant wind from the N and E, and zero from the SW quarter, like nothing ever seen before in history resulting in a climate on a par with the Faeroe Islands. Every single day brings the same demoralsing unpleasant crap. A miserable soul destroying lack of seasonality that not even the most boring times in recorded history ever came close to sinking to.
Such a long period of relentless misery and it just keeps on getting worse and worse. Now yet another stolen weekend of washout garbage for the umpteenth time this year. This constant inexplicable weekend curse, more than anything, is what makes this the worst time to be alive within living memory.
An absolutely disgusting, depressing, zero quality of live hellhole unfit for human habitation.
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