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Really disappointing day for most of UK today with western Scotland the warm spot at 16c and probably the only area that reached average or above.
Reached just 8.3c here with rain for most of Afternoon. Fronts off the north sea bring awful weather here at this time of year.

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Freezing at Wentworth today, 12c and felt like a December day....shocking for London area at this time of year 

Yeah, after a largely warm, dry and sunny May, a day or two of cold, rainy weather makes our climate 'crap'.

No, being one of the cloudiest countries on earth with pathetic mild snowless winters and tepid unsettled summers makes our climate crap. More than just crap in fact. Vile would be a better word especially as it's getting worse and worse.

As for the current synoptics in January. Would just be the same depressing stratus dross but with a max of 6C instead of 11C. The unmitigated horror show of January 1996 comes to mind 

You may find the climate in Aberdeen to be vile but I do not share the same  opinion regarding the weather here. I reserve words like that for truly vile climates - like New Delhi, or Singapore - not tepid oceanic climates that are disappointingly cloudy but ultimately harmless.

You need to get a sense of perspective, my wrist-slitting Aberdonian friend.

Well that is your opinion and that you are entitled to, but you shouldn't try bestowing it on others. If I lived in Aberdeenshire I imagine for 9 months of the year I to would be singing from Richards book 😜

Glorious spring day with plenty of sun ..... Love it....

Crazy max of 9c and a mere +10c and it's almost June!!

Haha! Well wait until December or January ! - at least it's milder at 13 or 14c then ;)

really? A max of just 9C?? When???

I think your telling porkies here tally! Most places in your region hit the mid to high teens yesterday . 😏

Think he was quoting my miserable experiences to be fair!

What do you mean? I was quoting Crepuscular Ray's post! Max of 10c!?

Here in Exeter we hit 20c before it clouded over with a few light showers. 

Feel for you up there,sounds like you are stuck in an eternal winter,must be soul destroying!

Down here summer has arrived this week and the hot sun today and yesterday has felt great with temps into the low 20`s and look like staying there for the foreseeable,happy days

So just to illustrate my frustration. Look at the max temps today from Weatheronline. 10 C here, the coldest city in Europe yet again! Drizzle and fog all day and really gloomy! Richard got 12 C....hope he doesn't complain!!!!!

It's too small for me to read Jerry; is there a link for that site? 

Bertie

Sorry Bertie I'm assuming everyone can zoom! Thanks Doc! 

Its been grim, Jerry. Just 9c here in Crail yesterday, cold and drizzly. The tourists in St Andrews looked stunned. Unfortunately we get the easterly Spring gloom every year, you only hope it's limited to a few days. This May has been poor however. Let's hope it doesn't continue into June, I still get nightmares about the easterly dominated June 2007. Just 75 hours of sun at Leuchars that month and 79 at Dyce, both setting new lows for least sunny Junes on record. To make matters worse local thunderstorms that month led to Leuchars wettest ever June also being recorded (138mm, or three times the average rainfall).