Not just the worst Spring I've ever endured but the worst of any season. It just gets more and more ludicrously vile with each ridiculously unpleasant and depressing week of abject horror that passes devoid of anything remotely normal or seasonable for the time of year 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Should be the sunniest time of year and the past 10 days have produced a total of 11.8 hours of sun and on it goes with another day of totally useless and preposterous 8C murk. The only possible explanation for this seems to be the result of a disastrous Frankenstein cloud seeding experiment gone wrong. Certainly doesn't feel that this unremitting garbage, which is so alien and abnormal for any any time of year never mind early May, could have arose naturally 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Not only is it the lowest total I've ever recorded for a 10-day spell in April or May but only once has the 10-day total ending in 6th January been lower which was 2015/16 with 5.2 hours. Next lowest is 2017/18 with 12.6 hours. Utterly surreal given how dull the festive periods have been in recent years 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Today will also be the 16th consecutive day of below average temperatures, the highest in that time being an absolutely dire 12.2C. The 30th March is the only day to reach 15C this year with the next warmest after that being 14.4C back on 24th January showing once again what an utterly catastrophic and disastrous car crash of a spring this has been when even basic levels of warmth, that were achieved in the depths of winter, cannot be attained 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
However, the disgusting lack of warmth pales into insignificance compared to the absolutely stinking awful weekends which are just off the scale in terms of sheer unadulterated horror. Completely unusable write-offs week after week like nothing on earth I've ever experienced. A cold, bleak, sunless miserable run without precedent at any time of year. A draining, tiresome ultra depressing danger to health 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Only vaguely decent weekend all year was way back on 11th/12th February. Horrific all throughout spring and continuing to get worse in defiance of any rational expectation. Last weekend was the first completely sunless weekend at any time of year since 12th/13th December 2020 and we could be looking at yet another one this weekend which is just mind-bogglingly awful given that there hasn't been back-to-back sunless weekends since February 2011. Not even early January 2016 - the worst period of weather in living memory - could manage that so to achieve that now would really say something about this unprecedented wrist-slittlingly awful excuse for a spring 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Four completely sunless weekend days in April - equalling the most I've recorded in any month of the year - has resulted in daily weekend sunshine averaging a thoroughly disgusting 2.51 hours - previous lowest in my 16 years of records was 4.21 hours in 2014. To beat that revolting spring by such a huge margin is beyond horrific. Just can't do anything outdoors at all. Might as well be living in Ny Alesund. I'm sure it's sunnier there. Even the Faeroes average 5 hours at this time of year, a total achieved only once in the past 10 days here of weather unfit for any habitable land 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
2023 is proving once again there is no longer a floor as to how low things can sink in the weather wasteland that is the 21st Century. To describe this as a year from hell doesn't even begin to do justice as to how insufferably poor it has been. An endurance test that only the toughest can survive. Feels like it's going to beat even notoriously bad years like 1985 and 1993 for unremittingly dire weather throughout the summer half. Just can't get anything remotely acceptable even for one day 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
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