The weather has become unbearable over the past 8 years, particularly since the start of 2011. In the space of 18 months we've had the worst summer on record and the worst winter on record. Two seasons so vile and depressing it's impossible to have any quality of life. Not when the weather is so wretchedly foul day in day out. No better than serving a prison sentence being cooped up indoors all the time
It is not a case of there being more extreme bad weather which would at least be interesting e.g. gales, blizzards, thunderstorms. There is actually far less. What we do get is just run-of-the-mill bog-standard bad weather that goes on for an eternity - a lack of changeability. We just get stuck in patterns which spew out the same crap day in day out
This is now the fourth write-off virtually snowless winter in 8 years. I thought the 90s were bad but only 91/92 was anywhere near as snowless as these four horrors. We've just had the fourth February in a row to be less snowy than February 1998. Combined with the worst run of summers in recorded history from 2007 to 2012 the weather has never felt so much like a perpetual autumn. Right now I am thinking that I hate living in this country and would rather live just about anywhere else in the western world.
Originally Posted by: Chiltern Blizzard
Just when I thought your postings couldn't get any more gloomy, you come up with this....brilliant stuff! Not sure if it was the intention but it certainly made me smile - I mean "Two seasons so vile and depressing it's impossible to have any quality of life" and
"Right now I am thinking that I hate living in this country and would rather live just about anywhere else in the western world". Great lines!
In the midst of all the gloom, anyone would think Aberdeen hadn't seen a snowflake this side of the millenium, but the past few years Scotland has had some very noteworthy winter weather. 2009/10 was within a whisker of being the coldest winter in Scotland for over 100 years (all winter three months had CSTs below 1c for instance), and within a year of that, December 2010 was truly remarkable north of the border..... not to mention the extremely snowy March 2006.
Cheer up, still time up there for a ground frost and a bit of sleet before April if you're lucky....
Originally Posted by: richardabdn