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Saint Snow
12 April 2024 09:49:31

Nice to have a proper warm feeling day that hasn't be ruined by heavy rain or blustery winds, even if it has still been on the cloudy side. It's not to last though, as the garbage that's dominated most of the last 9 months looks set to return this weekend.

Originally Posted by: Bolty 




Booked the day off yesterday to celebrate!

😁


(it was raining by teatime, mind)

 

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StoneCroze
13 April 2024 06:36:12
First decent day yesterday, and heaven forbid, might be dry again today.
Alderney, Channel Islands. (previously known as Beaufort)
NMA
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13 April 2024 07:07:12
Dry but murky. I'm hoping to dry laundry outside for the first time this year.
Forecast suggests sunny spells later once mist dissipates.

Edit the murk has now morphed into drizzle.
 
Vale of the Great Dairies
South Dorset
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Jiries
13 April 2024 10:12:46

Dry but murky. I'm hoping to dry laundry outside for the first time this year.
Forecast suggests sunny spells later once mist dissipates.

Edit the murk has now morphed into drizzle.
 

Originally Posted by: NMA 



Very bad in the south coasts due to SW flow which a bit less effected in the hazy sunshine Midlands.  Conservatory is a must for on going record wet and dull weather non stop. This help to dry your washing with ease as it still get warmish and dry guaranteed.
DEW
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13 April 2024 10:20:24

Dry but murky. I'm hoping to dry laundry outside for the first time this year.
Forecast suggests sunny spells later once mist dissipates.

Edit the murk has now morphed into drizzle.
 

Originally Posted by: NMA 



Bring your washing along here! Sun now coming out from time to time - I'm planning on some gardening later
War does not determine who is right, only who is left - Bertrand Russell

Chichester 12m asl
fairweather
13 April 2024 10:57:13
Yesterday was fabulous here. Dry warm and quite sunny. The day started with me risking not wearing a vest for the first time this year. Then working over the allotment I had to take my jumper off. By mid afternoon and some heavier labour I was shocked to find I needed to even take off my shirt. (apologies if this sounds like an extract from "The Full Monty"!) When I got home and checked the weather station I could see why. At that time it had maxed at 21.7C ! So now the seeds are sown I suppose I can expect a month of cold dry weather!


 
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NMA
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13 April 2024 12:29:19

Bring your washing along here! Sun now coming out from time to time - I'm planning on some gardening later

Originally Posted by: DEW 


Here comes the sun too and the laundry is drying. Just had a bite to eat outside in the suntrap and I needed a hat too.
The garden beckoned yesterday and the soil is drying out well. So much so, a Berggarten sage in pot at the front was wilting yesterday. The box in pots need a soak too.
I have some cinnamon basil I'll sow this afternoon though that goes indoors. Far too early to keep outside.
And then later when it gets dark, a mollusc pogrom before bedtime. It's all go go go now in the garden.
Vale of the Great Dairies
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft
DEW
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13 April 2024 12:49:09


And then later when it gets dark, a mollusc pogrom before bedtime. It's all go go go now in the garden.

Originally Posted by: NMA 



Be careful that you don't get reported to the RSPCA which is having a be-kind-to-snails campaign.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rspca-under-fire-over-rules-160157981.html? 
War does not determine who is right, only who is left - Bertrand Russell

Chichester 12m asl
Chunky Pea
13 April 2024 13:44:07
Bright and sunny for a change but very blustery. Can't complain as the ground seriously needs a good drying out. 
Current Conditions
https://t.ly/MEYqg 


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richardabdn
14 April 2024 12:21:31
Yet another garbage grey Sunday. I cannot adequately put into words just how angry and depressed this is making me 🤬

6am it was clear skies, as it was all night although the temperature wouldn't drop as much as it should due to the vile wind which never lets up. Then masses of ugly grot forms, for no valid reason, that takes an age to clear. Almost as soon as it does more 💩 arrives to take it's place with full overcast that looks set to write-off the rest of the day now. Utterly revolting 🤢

If the exact same synoptic set up occurred during the week there would have been clear blue skies all morning and we would have had 6 hours sun instead of a poxy 2 hours, almost half of which was pre-7am 🙄

Not a single sunny, dry sunday all of last spring. One so far this spring. That makes 1 good Sunday out of 20. Even the Faeroe Islands climate isn't so grim to make such an appalling hit rate anywhere near remotely acceptable. There just isn't anywhere on earth this depressing.

Yesterday it was the wind with hail stones battering the sun house during the afternoon. It's just a perpetual autumn/winter. Even Thursday and Friday were more like good days in September than spring, due to high minima, and both days turned into a cloudfest by evening. That's the sort of days we are desperately needing at the weekend, particularly Sunday, and it would need to be one hell of a long run to make up for this unrelenting grey purgatory.

It's just the absolute pits 👎 The spring equivalent of the 2007-12 summers 🤮
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Chunky Pea
15 April 2024 07:40:11
This has to be one of the worst April's I can recall. Howling like mad out there with frequent bouts of what can only be described as violent rain/hail showers. Looks like December and feels like it too. April is usually a month where fine days heavily out match the bad, but this April has turned that trait right on its head. 
Current Conditions
https://t.ly/MEYqg 


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Crepuscular Ray
15 April 2024 12:44:19


   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-68816142 
Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill
johncs2016
15 April 2024 14:31:21


This has happened as well, without there even being any named storm.

I did notice that there was extensive Met Office yellow warnings for wind across England and Wales for that, but no amber or red warnings (such warnings might well have led to that system being officially named Storm Lilian which is the next name on that list after Kathleen).

Clearly, the Met Office have completely underestimated the effects of this system, and were caught out by it being even worse than expected.
 
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.
Saint Snow
15 April 2024 16:04:41

This has to be one of the worst April's I can recall. Howling like mad out there with frequent bouts of what can only be described as violent rain/hail showers. Looks like December and feels like it too. April is usually a month where fine days heavily out match the bad, but this April has turned that trait right on its head. 

Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea 




Thought you liked stormy weather?

 

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Chunky Pea
15 April 2024 16:40:01

Thought you liked stormy weather?

 

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 



Hardly 'stormy'. Very much high nuisance value rather. 
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Retron
15 April 2024 16:44:49

Hardly 'stormy'. Very much high nuisance value rather. 

Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea 


Very much 'stormy', or as close to it as you'll generally get inland. It's the worst so far of the winter half of the year here. There have been several gusts into the 60s locally, with the trees in full leaf it makes a massive roaring sound...
This morning:

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Just now, as another squall goes through.

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Leysdown, north Kent
Chunky Pea
15 April 2024 16:51:01

Very much 'stormy', or as close to it as you'll generally get inland. It's the worst so far of the winter half of the year here. There have been several gusts into the 60s locally, with the trees in full leaf it makes a massive roaring sound...
This morning:

UserPostedImage

Just now, as another squall goes through.

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Originally Posted by: Retron 



Quite impressive stats there Retron. I wager that I live more inland than you still. I imagine the NW coastal regions here are wild enough as well. Ugly Decemberesque skies continue unabated here. Low based cumulus in abundance. At least in December it would be dark by now so I wouldn't have to be looking at it. 
Current Conditions
https://t.ly/MEYqg 


"You don't have to know anything to have an opinion"
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Retron
15 April 2024 17:15:51

Quite impressive stats there Retron. I wager that I live more inland than you still. I imagine the NW coastal regions here are wild enough as well. Ugly Decemberesque skies continue unabated here. Low based cumulus in abundance. At least in December it would be dark by now so I wouldn't have to be looking at it. 

Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea 


It's interesting, despite my location (half mile from the sea, which lies to the north, NE and east), the winds are coming from inland - they've not been too bad outside of the rain, but when it starts chucking it down, boy do you know it!

Looks like there have been tornadoes around, too, and given the ferocity of the convection today I'm not at all surprised. Thankfully none in Kent as far as I can tell...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/15/tornado-midlands-stoke-on-trent-met-office-weather-front/ 
 
Leysdown, north Kent
Chunky Pea
15 April 2024 17:25:44

It's interesting, despite my location (half mile from the sea, which lies to the north, NE and east), the winds are coming from inland - they've not been too bad outside of the rain, but when it starts chucking it down, boy do you know it!

Looks like there have been tornadoes around, too, and given the ferocity of the convection today I'm not at all surprised.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/15/tornado-midlands-stoke-on-trent-met-office-weather-front/ 
 

Originally Posted by: Retron 



Sun heating the ground can enhance gustiness overland in a synoptic scale flow at this time of year. Its just that particular flow is strong as it is! 

From what I recall reading from HH Lamb years back, the infamous 'year without a summer' was preceded by a similar March and April to this, although no doubt colder. 
Current Conditions
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"You don't have to know anything to have an opinion"
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Saint Snow
15 April 2024 18:06:57

Hardly 'stormy'. Very much high nuisance value rather. 

Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea 




🤔

You yourself described your weather as "howling like mad out there with frequent bouts of what can only be described as violent rain/hail showers", which fairly describes 'stormy'.

Martin
Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)
A TWO addict since 14/12/01
"How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics."
Aneurin Bevan
Chunky Pea
15 April 2024 18:51:56

🤔

You yourself described your weather as "howling like mad out there with frequent bouts of what can only be described as violent rain/hail showers", which fairly describes 'stormy'.

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 



I still didn't call it 'stormy'. I said it was like a day in December, which this sort of weather is far more the norm. 
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richardabdn
20 April 2024 08:13:31
Yet another disgusting utterly foul week of relentless rubbish. Rain every day, horrible wind, dire temperatures 🤮

Yesterday was truly unbelievable with a force 6 wind despite pressure over 1020mb. Today the wind has gone but in it's place vile grey soul destroying crap to ruin yet another weekend. It's truly beyond awful at only 5C. Hard to believe it's almost the final third of April as it's just day after day of the worst conditions winter has to offer.

If this is the utter garbage we get with a high pressure you have to ask just what the hell it would take to get something decent?

Not a single air frost since 4th March which is beyond ludicrous. Not even in the warmest of springs would the last frost be so early. To fail too manage a single frost in that period with so many cold days bears testimony to a relentless period of stupefyingly grim, depressing and unpleasant conditions that even the worst of springs would have been unable to sustain in the past. Never ending wind/rain/cloud. Even the wettest December in nearly 150 years wasn't as unceasingly hideous 🤢

The fourth consecutive colder than average April is the vilest of the lot. One of the worst months of all time. We have been unable to get the prolonged sunny, dry spell of weather after mid-month that provided a break from the dross in the past two Aprils and the outlook is horrific.

2023 was one of the worst years ever and so far 2024 is just 2023 with all the limited good bits removed. A wrist-slittingly awful nightmare offering nothing remotely acceptable. Just endless 💩

 
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2023 - The Year that's Constantly Worse than a Bad November
2024 - 2023 without the Good Bits
StoneCroze
20 April 2024 08:39:27
Currently 9C, Dew Point 0C. Very dry air for us. 
Alderney, Channel Islands. (previously known as Beaufort)
Martybhoy
20 April 2024 09:42:25
Right now in sun trap at my side door.

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Rural East Ayrshire
Near to the village of Sorn
Jiries
20 April 2024 15:57:19
The conservatory nearly complete yesterday and as he put the glass and roofing in it got warmer and wafted inside to bring livng room temps to 20.5C first time since early October without heating.  Today sunny start to mid day reached pleasant 30.2C after a very cold mornng at 2.2C so must be well below 0C outside with air frost.  Living room was 16.5C rose to comfortable 22C warmth now 21C and 24C as it dropping quickly so will close the french doors to stop the warm escaping outward to the conservatory. This a lifeline for us and worth it to get some much need warmth comfort.  Heating not going to be turn on but yesterday did turn on for shower time.

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