Worryingly Wet & Worryingly Sunless

[The PIT]

 Metwatch Pretty good article if one reads it properly. Basically highlighting the problem of mis management and growing population. In future years we may need it to be wet to keep pace. Add in farmers not being able to grow crops things don't look to good if the present inaction by governments continue.

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 SunSean Is it free to get in?

[Andy Bown]

I cannot even describe how completely saturated my garden is. I was actually sinking on the grass while hanging washing on the line a few minutes ago! 
 

A long long time until I can consider mowing it or letting my son play on it! 

[reef]

5 days into April and 51% of the monthly rainfall has fallen already. It would seem certain we're going to have a 10th consecutive wetter than average month.

Like February and March it has started off dull too, with 9 hours of sunshine in the first 5 days.

A change please!

[Weather-history]

1133.6mm for the EWP since the start of July last year until the end of March 

An annual total of that amount would make that the 11th wettest year on record

 

[carinthian]

 Weather-history  Wow , glad I put off my spring visit back to UK. Completely different over here , almost drought conditions caused by a combination of only small snowfall amounts below 1500m during the past 2 months and persistent Fohn winds and sunshine with warmth well above normal early Spring levels. 30c in the forecast for some parts this weekend. Crazy, then forecast of snow and cold to return Mid - month. We will see ? I do hope you lot get a break soon for the many days of rainfall you have endured. Send some over here !

C

[BlueSkies_do_I_see]

 Andy Bown I have to wear wellies to reach the compost bins at the bottom of my garden. Never had to do that before in all the years I have lived here. It's repeatedly flooded this winter/spring. The grass is now almost entirely moss.

Edited April 6 by BlueSkies_do_I_see

[SunSean]

What a dreadful & completely sunless early November day.

[Weather-history]

 reef

Seen a newspaper report from 9th May 1938, saying that the Hull district had only recorded 3 and 1/2 inches of rain that year so far.

Edited April 6 by Weather-history

[SunSean]

Uk climate-

Autumn & Winter- grey sky/rain

Spring & Summer- grey sky/rain

10c- grey sky/rain

20c- grey sky/rain 

Southerly airflow- grey sky/rain

Northerly airflow- grey sky/rain

High pressure- grey sky/rain

Low pressure- grey sky/rain

Worst country in the world by far.

[reef]

 Weather-history Figures from Hull East Park from 1938:

January: 47.0mm
February: 22.9mm
March: 5.3mm
April: 7.9mm
May: (1st-26th): 18.5mm

1929 had perhaps an even more impressive dry spell:

1st February - 31st October 1929: 295.0mm

1912-1913 is an example of four wet seasons on the trot followed by an exceptionally dry summer:

Summer 1912: 301.8mm
Autumn 1912: 218.2mm
Winter 1913: 167.8mm
Spring 1913: 156.5mm

Summer 1913: 42.8mm (just 9mm more than 1976)

Perhaps we'll have a similar year to the last one. We can but hope!

[TheOgre]

It’s not just the rain that’s grim, it’s more just the grey skies day in day out. If it were very wet but came in thundery showers with intermittent sunshine and blue skies it wouldn’t be that bad. Even if it’s dry, it’s looking up at the endless sheet of slate that depresses me; August 2021 is an example of this.

[wende123]

 Andy Bown I have the same problem. Twice I've strimmed the grass in anticipation of mowing the lawn, for it to then rain yet again. I can't even start gardening this year until I've cut the grass.

I've lived in this house for 26 years and have never experienced 8 months of continuous rain/showers and a garden underwater. 

[Terminal Moraine]

Another very dull start to a month. April has recorded just 9.0 hrs of sunshine here in the first week, 30% of normal.

[philglossop]

As a football secretary for a Cornish team - the sheer inflexibility of the FA has taken a wet winter and tripled the stress. We have to finish by 1st may come what - and some clubs by 27th April.

Factor in I've lost 9 games and had no Saturday games for 2 months this means we have to play 8 games in 2 and half weeks. 

 

Some clubs are worse. There's a team in Lancashire playing 10 games in 11 days. 

[Mark Bayley]

Copied from the Yorkshire thread. Another a wet day here. Using Church Fenton as a proxy for an average here. To date every month since June last year has seen above average rainfall. 

July 2023: 150.2mm vs average of 52mm. 188% more than the average 

August: 72mm vs average 62mm. 16% more than the average 

September 65.4mm vs average 56mm. 16% more than the average 

October 144.6mm vs 58mm. 151% more than the average 

November 101.2mm vs 58mm. 74% more than the average 

December 150.2mm vs 58mm. 158% more than the average 

January 2024 78.2mm vs 48mm. 62% more than the average

February 86.5mm vs 42mm. 104% more than the average 

March 65.6mm vs 41mm. 58% more than the average 

April 59.4mm vs 43mm. 38% more than the average

 

Lets hope May breaks the current cycle. 

[cheese]

Exceeding April’s average monthly rainfall in the first 9 days is pretty depressing. Having so many 100mm+ months is also ridiculous.

Edited April 9 by cheese

[TheOgre]

Thursday and Saturday have downgraded so now we only have Friday to look forward to. Also the GFS has flipped back to low pressure near us into FI so maybe time to write off April. Another month bites the dust.

[SunSean]

 TheOgre Oh boy what a treat! Being treated to yet more endless gloom & low pressure? Must be payback for the 2 fairly nice days in the past week and a bit!

There's no getting away from it, we've been so disproportionately dull for so long now that any light at the end of the tunnel is always extinguished & replaced with more sewage. This ain't ending is it. 

Can't believe there were still some cheering on another late season SSW LOL. Spring wrecked again as it always is when we're "treated" to one of those. This gonna be an every year thing now? No more Springs just extended Autumn's?

Sorry guys but I can't help but keep ranting because it's Honestly killing me having such little sunshine for so long. It's absolute torture especially when you're constantly teased with a change...finally...and it reverts back to Hell again. 

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 SunSean This is where I'm feeling smug. I wrote off sun after the first week of March. You might get the odd day but that's it. This is the new normal. 

[TwisterGirl81]

I think most of us are feeling the same way, the sun seems to have been down graded a little this week, hopefully it’ll revert back….can’t wait to have months and months on the trot of average sunshine, let alone above average, this pattern has got to break at some point hopefully the second part of spring, to have this continue into the summer months would be just downright cruel.

[Earthshine]

Relate to quite a few here.  Ending up wishing away half my life from October to April these days.  It's cemented the fact I really have to leave the UK at some point!

[raz.org.rain]

1 hour ago, SunSean said:

Can't believe there were still some cheering on another late season SSW LOL. Spring wrecked again as it always is when we're "treated" to one of those. This gonna be an every year thing now? No more Springs just extended Autumn's?

Hopefully those SSWs will work in our favour come summer 

 

[SunSean]

 raz.org.rain I don't even ask for much, it just seems so hard to get any consistent sunshine these days. I still pray for a 2018 style flip around.

Edited April 9 by SunSean

[TwisterGirl81]

 Earthshine I feel the same, if only it was as easy for us to immigrate to other countries like it seems to be for some to immigrate here.

I love England but the weather balance leans far too often to the dull or wet, there is no where better than the uk on a warm cloudless sunny day though, we have so many beautiful scenic places.