Yet another monumentally vile day for the local Holiday Monday. The 14th crap day in a row. Just two months on from the worst ever May Holiday Weekend we are now enduring the worst ever July Holiday Weekend. 12.4C and hammering down with rain yet again.
Three consecutive days with 10mm+ which has never happened before in July in my records. Not even in 2007 and 2012. That's how bad it is and from the looks of things today could be the fourth.
Day after day the NE is being plagued by stagnant cloud and rain which just sits there and won't shift. At the same time we are enduring this horrific filth Glasgow had 19 hours of sunshine at the weekend showing how ridiculous and abnormal this hellish pattern is. The antithesis of normal.
21 hours of sun and 50mm of rain so far. Nowhere else on the planet has averages this poor at the height of summer. Not even Torshavn.
Legitimately feels even worse than 2012. Back then we managed two clear afternoons with temps of 20C. Nothing remotely summerlike from this malevolent month. Don't think there has been less than four oktas of cloud at any point. It's not come close to reaching 20C and it's looking like the umpteenth month in the past two years to reach the full monthly average rainfall in the first half.
It's more grotesque and unpleasant than any words could do justice to. A steaming pile of horse manure like nothing on earth ever endured within living memory. The 12-month rolling rain total has been above 1200mm for over three months bar a brief period of three days in May when it dropped to 1196mm. Could even increase this month which is beyond surreal given how wet last July was.
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