Arctic Hare

Okay, now this is the kind of April morning I can get behind!

After a pretty nice day, it's now raining! Only a couple of showers on the radar, but one of them is right over me. Irritating.

Unsurprisingly a new 2024 high for me at 18.7 °C. Lovely when the sun was out, though a bit uninspiring when the murk returned later on.

This thread has been getting quite serious and scientific of late given it's the moaning (etc) thread, so let me drag the level down again for a moment by saying this late afternoon and evening feels like it's undone a lot of the (relatively) good conditions of the last week. I know they weren't very good everywhere, but we missed most of the daytime rain... until today. I was surprised and a little bit disconcerted how quickly my mood fell again with a thought of "Oh no, not more of this gunk!"

markyo danm Interesting the two different emphases you put on your respective replies. I'd like to think danm will be closer, but there's an element of hopecasting on my part there I'll admit. I could cope with a wetter climate if we got more sunshine out of it. A wetter climate that was also warmer but duller is not really something I can deal with with ease. Not that I'll have any say in it, of course!

Not a pleasant late afternoon/early evening here. Windy, gloomy, wet. The heaviest of the rain band is just a little to the east of here, but it'll have added a few more mm to the rainfall total and right now that's never welcome. 24 hours ago tomorrow was forecast to be largely dry with only a small risk of showers. Why do I think the day is going to be downgraded yet *again* in reality?

I hope the last part of that will prove to be excessively pessimistic. After all, several people here have posted stats showing that annual sunshine hours have actually *increased* in the last decade or two. But more rain too seems absolutely nailed on. It's just the consequence of a warmer atmosphere.

AWD I've been pretty much under that band for the last hour. Not incredibly heavy rain, but irritating and persistent and unpleasant to be out in. However, just in the last few minutes the sun has appeared. There is hope! I do get the point about things being the same all the time, though. "Low-mid teens, cloudy, damp, windy at times" -- it currently feels like that's going to be right about 300 days a year...

As long as I'm out of the wind, it's a nice day today. The warmth is pleasant rather than remarkable (17.1 °C max so far) but with the sunshine it's plain ol' nice. More of this sort of thing, please!

It's currently sunny here in Worcs, albeit very windy, so I really hope things improve for those of you in more sun-starved regions! ETA: and literally as I post that the sun goes in!

Jonnoramo87 Never. From here on in every single month will be below average, until eventually we end up with no sunshine ever again, after which to be below average would require negative sunshine.

And another decent day! Not totally dry, but mostly so, enough sunshine to feel warm occasionally, winds not too strong for the most part. It's nothing special, but balm for the soul nevertheless.

Weather Enthusiast91 Cold and sunny, and it's not close. Admittedly I'm a bit biased after months of wet!

A superb morning here today, with some very early rain but then clear air and lots of sunshine. Quite a mild day too, though nothing exceptional (max 14.4 °C). Gradually went downhill from mid-afternoon and has been raining on and off for a few hours, but the first half of the day was more than acceptable. Actually, since the start of the Easter long weekend, really only Sunday has been a grimfest, and even then it was because of chilly murk rather than hours of rain. Things *have* been a bit better lately, though admittedly the bar to clear would have challenged a world class limbo dancer!

I actually went out and bought an ice cream at lunchtime, then later sat out in the garden in a T-shirt. Would not have seen either coming during yesterday's chilly gloom!