I think Richardabdn and Doctormog should come to Ireland for some sun. I don't have sun stats for May readily available but it seems to have been a pretty sunny month over here so far. Boringly so in fact

We have had over 131hrs of sun so far this month. Not far from average I think (perhaps marginally above?)

Yet another cold spring apart from the ten days between 6th-16th May temperatures have been below average here for the season!!

It was warmer last December than the majority of this spring has been.

December was so freakishly mild that it may also prove to have periods warmer than June.  To be expected.  Never cast a clout til May be out!!

Cloudy with freshness . Mild. not wonderful.

Yet another disgusting day. Bang on 5pm it starts raining yet again. Truly surreal how awful our weather has become.

Don't think there has been any rain this month during the night or working hours. All during the evenings and weekends. Just lamentable 

Sun hours here: 

1st -6th May: 27.0hrs (76%)

7th - 14th May: 82.1hrs (161%)

15th - 22nd May: 22.8hrs (42%)

Guess which of those three periods coincided with me being out of the country?

On that basis next period of above average sunshine should be the last two weeks of June. when I will be in Italy 

April gave me snow !!!!! and thunderstorms !!!!!!!!!!   May has been warm and sunny with below average rainfall - mostly from (non thundery) showers rather than frontal rain.   All in all a very good spring here.   No complaints at all (well, apart from the lack of frosts in May )

Who cares? You'll be in Italy! 

One of the reasons that I love living in Torquay is that it is pretty much entirely built into 7 hills. There are big valleys between them and thats where you go to get out of the seabreeze. I think the temperature will top 17C today which is quite low for late May. I'm meeting my friend in about 20 minutes to play some cards and we will be heading into one of those valleys. Its quite spectacular how different the temps are on the beach to what they are behind the hills.

...and yet another day of crap. Very little sun, grey skies and a nasty cold NE wind making it feel like winter.

What should be the best time of year is just being written off completely

i know how you feel! Today we had more sun but we had a chilly breeze blowing unlike yesterday so we only managed 19C 😒 Bloody wind!! But to make matters worse this evening the wind eased just after we got the BBQ on the go making the garden really smokey 🍢

But all cooked well..

Now ow lets we get see some summer weather soon 

Yep, we reached 14 C briefly in the end, it was sunnier than I expected too! 

Another fine summers day here

Just bought some after sun lotion - think I will need it after a long weekend coming up walking and camping on Dartmoor!  Sunburn imminent ....

Maximum today of 12.2c. So now wearing my sweatshirt over a short sleeve shirt.   Not much sun either.. The only good thing is that it is....... dry........

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.

Very much on for the dullest second half of May on record with another rank day. North Sea grot and only a few blinks of sun. It just gets worse and worse. 33 hours in 10 days now - about what you'd expect in October when the days are barely half as long