Well it's good see that the mild winter didn't affect the cherries 😊

Just back from a brilliant week of weather in Estonia. Picked the right week as it was sunny nearly the whole time with deep blue skies that you rarely see in the UK No nonsense like beautiful starts giving way to dismal grey crap by mid-morning. Yesterday was awful though and a definite change there this week.

Just had a quick look at what we had here and infuriating seems a good word. Looks as though it was glorious warm sunshine during the working week sandwiched between two weekends with vastly inferior conditions. Utterly detestable but now the default pattern. Just when are we going to see some decent weekend weather? Not had one Saturday even reach 14C so far this year 

Just 11C yesterday compared to 16-18C during the week and today is dire with a horrid north westerly producing lots of cloud. Only 8C just now.  The only talking point nowadays is the extreme lack of warmth. 8th May was the latest date since 1979 for the first 15C of the year at Dyce and following on from last May's hideously low maximum it looks like we could see two consecutive May's fail to reach 19C for the first time since the 1980s

Signs now that we are heading into early summer with the woodlands and hedges covered in wild flowers 

Dog Violet

And one for Bertie - Wild Strawberry 

Yes.  As far as cold snaps go - more like this please.  A lovely 16c with sun and light winds made for a pleasant day.  I daresay somewhere towards the IoW probably nudged almost 20c.

If this was a cold snap, I hate to think what a warm spell would mean.  45c?

Been a perfect summers day here again today, though the gnats swarming in the sunlight down by the river this evening were a bit of a nuisance ....

Horrible weather since I returned. Not remotely springlike. Disgusting for what should be the sunniest time of year with day in day out of depressing grey crap. Waiting for the rain to start to write-off yet another evening and no improvement likely all week with yet another vile weekend coming up. It's just unreal. How much longer can this unremitting dross go on for? 

It's just perpetual autumn with nothing decent for over a year and it's not the traditional autumn weather we used to get but the cancerous rubbish that has prevailed since the turn of the century with incessant gloom, non-descript day temperatures, mild nights and extreme lack of temperature variation 

Anyone would think this was a moaning thread! Cheer up Richard- at least as time goes on you'll evolve big, light-absorbing eyes, a bodyhair coat and a gland that links a mixture of vitamin D and happy pills down your throat once a week.

well it is a moaning thread 😋 But it's also a gloating thread and that must really wind up those suffering in NorthEast Scotland  😂

nah I think they're worse.. More like arsenal fans 😄

thats quite shocking 😮 over half way through May now and 16C is still the seasons best. 

I agree it's been nice here too.

Average high has been 16.6c and there have been 12 pleasant days with sunny spells ,11 days above 15c and a high of 24.2c. Not bad for the cold half of May.

As far as temperature goes it's a different world up here to you south coasters! However it's been a very dry and fairly sunny month to make up for the low temperatures.

Edinburgh sunshine and rainfall totals are comparable to the East Midlands and it's drier than south London. Not all bad. The heating will be off soon and I can stop wearing my thermal vest to work on the yacht!

Yet another dire day. Grey, humid and depressing with a spell of drizzly rain timed perfectly for lunchtime 

Even the cold final week of April was better than this. It's just the absolute pits

southcoast aside 😏 I'd think 16C by mid May being the best recorded is pretty dire for most low level locations away from the far north of Scotland... Even somewhere famous for crap temperatures like Aberdeen or Newcastle should have reached 18C at least once by mid May. 😄

It has already reached 18C here but the average monthly maximum for May is 20C for Aberdeen and I would imagine about 21C would be right for Edinburgh. However that was in an era when W and SW winds prevailed rather than the N/E grot we are now subjected to constantly.

Dyce hasn't reached 20C in May since 2012 showing how awful recent May's have been. 2013 wasn't too bad but 2014 was horrific as was last year and this year is aiming to making it three duds in a row.

Today was another day of rank, disgusting, permacast crap in the land of eternal November. Worst day yet with not even a glimmer of sun and the added horror of thick murk and drizzle Now 5 days in a row with <2 hours sun which is the most dismal depressing spell I can ever recall in May. Even 2014 didn't produce anything as bad so this week may well be the most putrid May spell since the record breaking awful May of 1983.

Looks like a better chance of sun tomorrow before more crap returns for the weekend. Just a sick joke

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