TwisterGirl81

*Stormforce~beka* I’m further west that you and it’s breaking through here, though it’s still mostly cloud in the sky, fingers crossed it breaks up. rhw sun just instantly lifts the mood, what a slog the last several months have been…hopefully a beautiful spell of weather will come in April

The sun has appeared in Exeter, feels nice…what I would give for a full day of sun, that’s been few and far between since god knows when.

It’s sunny in Exeter and 60f currently, though a little too much cloud in the vicinity for my liking though we have to take small mercies, more of this please

It’s on and off sunny here in Exeter which is nice, yesterday we got to over 17c though I was asleep after a night shift. I have a good feeling for April, positive thoughts

B87 well we seem to have easily achieved weeks and months on end of dull and wet, if there were any justice in this world we’d be due several months of mostly sunny skies, I know we are an island at the edge of the Atlantic but this pattern surely can’t go on for much longer. today was sunny though, we are already over our average rain For the month so another above average rainfall month is definite, by how much time will tell…sunshine amounts I’d hazard we’ll be at 50 hours after todays sunshine so unless we get several days of clear blue I think we’ll be lucky to reach average sunshine figures for March here which is I think is between 112-118 hours sunshine hours for month, can’t remember off the top of my head.

We are all going to be overjoyed when we have our first period of sustained warm clear blue skies, fingers crossed, looking to April with trepidation so far this has been a poor start to spring just like last year, can only hope we don’t have to wait until mid May for warmth like last year, surely not

Another grey wet day, honestly this is becoming like a sick joke now. We have had more than our fair share of all this cloud, enough already. I hope we get out of this pattern soon, we must be due a very long spell of cloudless sunny skies and at this point I won’t mind even if it’s chilly that’s how desperate I am

raz.org.rain we have some palm trees here in the south west?

Buzzard I sometimes wonder if it was because there were hardly any planes flying overhead, makes you wonder what those chemicals do In Absence of True Seasons I still had to go to work and watch all my neighbours in their gardens, it sucked…

Sun Chaser too true, we can only hope the above average months for sun will fall in spring and summer, it’s all we can do at this point.

I would like to know the percentage of cloudy days we’ve had as a posed to sunny days the past several months, I’ve never known anything like it. It’s no wonder many people went down with flu and colds this season, among other reasons many must be seriously lacking in vitamin d, thankfully I take a multivitamin every day so I never got Ill. This pattern has got to break at some point surely! Call me whatever but we surely do deserve a stellar spring and summer surely? I don’t think I’d cope if we have a below average spring and summer

Gfs 00z showing some warmth wafting up from Spain for the end of March, this would be more than welcome couldn’t see anything too cold either, it seems to be shifting to Eastern Europe so hopefully a good sign of the ssw not negatively impacting us by delaying spring

Mike Poole ssw are rare? Happened last year too and sodded up spring 2023, a repeat this year is not needed and would be a hard slap in the face from the overall dull wet weather we’ve endured the past several months. Sun and warmth now please, a freeze and more rain is not needed nor desired…I don’t fancy owing energy companies money even after the large (for me!) credit I built up last year to see me through winter. I can’t take the weather, government and energy companies laughing at our expense. We need some beautiful weather to raise this country’s morale, it is spring after all

Nick F not again we had this last year and had to wait until mid May for proper warmth, not after the weather we have had the past several months, hope this doesn’t come to fruition

cheeky_monkey you must think we’re a bunch of moaners when we complain of being cold and it being 8C here

baddie 15C? 21C and above would be better but then I guess it is only march

Mullet With pleasure, we surely must be all due a long sunny dry spell after the past several months. I’d like to know the reasoning why bar the odd settled period (few and far between) the weather has either been grey sky’s or wet. cheeky_monkey god knows how you cope in that kind of cold …how’s the spring and summers there? Temp wise and weather conditions?

How’s the weather been in the east today? Here in Devon it’s been cold, blowing a hooly and raining, it’s just stopped now, still cloudy though I can only hope beautiful warm weather will be on the horizon soon

ANYWEATHER hope so, we’ve had more than our fair share of dull and wet. I know March can be an iffy month but I hope to god we get a long warm settled spell by April…I couldn’t imagine having another wet and below average sunshine months

SollyOlly out of interest what temperature is your threshold for being too hot, both of you? markyo ?

SollyOlly I think so too I’m glad we cleared that up before I was sent to the gallows. I should have said in my experience of when I was overweight as having read it back I can imagine how some might have interpreted it SollyOlly that takes will power, I love food too much to restrict myself but it does mean I have to be active ha

markyo well done, that’s amazing how did you do it? Good, I would not want to offend anyone here at all, I was like 3 and half stone overweight during the lock downs as at the time I had a sit down job plus couldn’t work out and I literally felt so bad on myself, so glad I lost it now, have a very active heavy job and got my motivation back. I feel you, likewise, we have no air con where I work and windows have stoppers on so can’t open them fully, I don’t think anyone would hurt themselves by chucking themselves out of a ground floor window let’s just hope we all have a pleasant spring and summer with lots of sunshine and temps of 22c - 25c, that way everyone will be happy, the heat haters and sun and warmth lovers, we can hope can’t we

markyo I meant no offence, when I put 3 stone on during the lock downs I always felt hot/sweaty/uncomfortable and rarely felt cold then when I lost the weight when gyms reopened I just noticed that I started to feel the cold again so presume that all the extra weight I was kept me more insulated SollyOlly really, I hadn’t noticed you ever liking a post of mine but I’ve no idea what I said that you’d find offensive when it was my experience when I was overweight. I don’t mean any offence to anyone else so please don’t turn it into something it isn’t and feel free to carrying on liking my posts even if you don’t ever like them I know you don’t like heat but that’s all I’ve noticed about you but it’s fine, we all have our preferences

raz.org.rain anything below 21c is not what I would class as warm, I still wear cardigans below that temperature unless I was at work or gardening, maybe in a previous life I was from a tropical country, it would explain my love of sun and warmth, not that I dislike cold or snow or even winter, i find it cosy, it’s just where I live even when it’s cold we very rarely see proper snow let alone settling snow so always feels like such a waste and it’s now coming to the end of the ‘colder’ months and I start getting that SAD thing where I am ready for sun, warmth, flowers and leaves of trees rather than twigs raz.org.rain I can, maybe it’s a regional thing, the only thing that I’ve felt has been below average is sunshine and all the above average rain we have had. look at these graphs, just horrid and like another poster said when it’s raining you can’t really feel mild when soaking wet and no sun on your skin!

markyo well I’m not overweight so tend to feel the cold more than others would who might be, less fat insulation