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Shaping up to be a very nice day here in London. Had an hour of pointless grey muck but it’s cleared off

B87 Indeed. 24°C wouldn’t be too bad, but only if sunny. The trouble with these cool summer months is they are rarely sunny. A high pressure sat to the west giving us a northwesterly flow is usually a recipe for explosive infill with clearances appearing at 7pm. No thanks.

Cheshire Freeze Some nice southerly breezes bringing plentiful warm sunshine and thundery outbreaks from time to time, please. Little Atlantic s.hyte for a couple of months would be good after last July

SunSean I hear Mercury is sunny Unfortunately with an easterly your location will usually be prone to muck from the North Sea. Here in west London it’s a beauty of a day, apart from the cold wind

A lovely day here with mainly clear skies, that wind is a bit chilly though

al78 Not sure where I’m ‘massively exaggerating’? We do get occasional dry spells which admittedly can be a challenge for home growers of veg/fruit, but that’s nothing new. I’d say the frequent runs of many consecutive months of near constant rain are much more of an issue. People are wasteful of water here, the lack of education is frustrating but when it chucks it down for 10 months straight you can forgive them for thinking what the fuss is all about when it finally stops raining. The main issue (as many have said on here) in the UK is a huge lack of investment, spanning many decades. The UK gets more than enough rain annually to satisfy demand. I had 2 UK allotments for a number of years and managed to cope with everything the British climate threw at us. So no need for the self-righteous attitude.

Turned out quite nice in west London today with some sunshine but quite a chilly, raw wind spoilt it a bit

Worryingly dry really aged well, didn’t it? The thing is, it never does. I fail to grasp why there’s this big panic from some when it stops raining for more than 10 minutes. It’s pretty much guaranteed to then chuck it down for months on end after any dry spell.

danm I hated summer 2012. A few warmer days sprinkled in late summer were welcome but still nowhere near enough to make up for what came beforehand. ‘Highs’ of 20°C in July and August are just rubbish in London, I remember the grey skies and cold winds well. I was growing peppers in pots and they all rotted in situ. Vile

Fog and frost in west London this morning! Whatever next

Fen Wolf Hopefully a change to something more pleasant soon. I think a much sunnier few months without going into an extreme lack of rainfall would be good. I think the last period of decent sunny weather was in September!

Fen Wolf Indeed. Though it’s rather unlikely this year after such a soaking wet 12 months. I really hope our climate isn’t becoming a choice between months of constant rain, followed by a month or two of no rain at all. The famously changeable nature of our climate seems to have gone. It’s not only the UK affected, much of the continent is having weird weather patterns too. As a SAD sufferer, this has been a pretty trying period of ‘weather’.

Cheshire Freeze Perhaps? Though winter is when precipitation is more useful for ground water stocks, etc. We’ve just had a lot of wet months in the last 12, so a drier period is desperately needed

'We're really struggling': British farmers pushed to brink by 'shocking' levels of floods APPLE.NEWS By James Gray, ITV News Multimedia Producer Getting rather serious baddie Meteorologically, that’d be very interesting. In reality, a complete nightmare! Hopefully won’t happen

East Lancs Rain West London. Though lots of flood warnings in Czechia, too. Would be nice get a more ‘normal’ weather pattern with fine weather interspersed with the odd unsettled day or two

Arch Stanton it’s very bad around here. All the local parks are filling up with water, quite a few residential streets are under water too. It needs to stop raining now, at least for a couple of weeks

Absolutely chucking it down yet again at Heathrow. I know the temperatures this winter have been notably mild, the rainfall must be at record levels here too

Also the wettest winter ever recorded for parts of England (think S and SE?). Grim

First day of spring and surprise surprise, it’s cold, windy and chucking it down. Dreadful

Absolutely chucking it down in west London, delightful. The Thames is very high

The last day of winter has dawned mild, cloudy and it’s drizzling in west London. How unusual lol

A better day in west London with some sunny spells and much lighter winds.

The days might be getting longer but it’s blowing a hoolie and it’s 7°C. Feels pretty wintry to me. At least the sun is out

RJBingham Same here, visited family in Aussie winter once when overnight temperatures went down to 2°C, it was horribly cold indoors, just lay in bed shivering. Not long arrived in London for a working block and it’s chucking it down. Deep joy

Had a beautiful late winter day yesterday here, sunny all day. Felt fantastic. Allowed a nice view of the rising full moon on the evening. Back to grey muck this morning