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Copy of yesterday really, just a bit more cloud about. 15C. The sad thing is in late May and 2C below average this is still one of this Spring's better days.

15C and loads of sunny spells. The much hyped warm spell of Saturday has already been matched in temperature and bettered by sunshine.

Maybe your spot got extremely lucky dodging the showers. Met office description does say loads of thundery showers in late May and some in early June too. https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/weather/learn-about/uk-past-events/summaries/uk_monthly_climate_summary_201805.pdf https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/weather/learn-about/uk-past-events/summaries/uk_monthly_climate_summary_201806.pdf

Late May/early June had loads of thunderstorms with a similar pattern of high pressure to the North and shallow Iberian lows regularly bumping into the South

Looks like a 2018 repeat exact same time of year as well. Let's hope that continues into rest of June and July.

A sunnier version of Saturday really, so not that bothered. In fact doing better as it was 10C at this point, today it's 13C.

Still sunny here just hit 20C too.

A lot hazier than I'd like but already warmer than yesterday's max. 17C.

There is no excuse to have a nowcast saying it's sunny when you can just look out the window and see it's cloudy.

Switched it off at start of May, can't mentally hack having the heating on in a late Spring month. Sat here typing in a hoodie though...

It's nice, but nowhere near the hype because we lost half a day of heating.

Looks like 15C will be the peak. So for all the hype yet again we finish below average. Cloud will roll in keeping temperatures mild overnight then we'll be gaslit into believing this is an above average month. Repeat for the whole Spring.

Even with the sun this afternoon, thanks to a terrible day yesterday and this morning the house is freezing, only 16.4C indoors. Getting fed up of this now, should not have to think about putting the heating on in Mid May.

Same story as you, now for the 10C rise in temperature to happen in 3 hours for the forecasts to be accurate...

Overcast and single figures.

It's been happening all Spring. Azores high takes weeks struggling to break north, but as soon as it makes it to the UK it quickly gets sucked north to the high latitudes. Impossible to hold onto a mid latitude block at the moment

It's the best month for a UK high though. Temps in low twenties gradually building into mid twenties if the high sticks around, but you still get a good cool down overnight.

Loads of distant thunder to the South. Big storm coming from Stoke don't know if that will make it here though. Entertaining at least

And we'll get mild nights thanks to rainfall keeping the overall average temperatures above average, so the cold fans will be ready to jump on anyone who complains about the weather.

Sad thing we are normally just barely out of reach. Literally just move 200 miles Southeast into France and away from the Northwest coasts you are in a completely different climate most of the time. UK weather is so frustrating it has to be by design. We spend all winter chasing northern blocking then the second northern blocking isn't worth it is the time northern blocking is most likely.

South looking at over half of May's average rainfall in 3 days. There was a nice map on twitter I can't find anymore, but widely showing 30mm+ in the next 3 days. Hosepipe bans are looking more ridiculous by the day.

It's the lack of sun and decent temperature combination that's justifiably annoyed people. The two need to come together. If we had a 10 day sunny spell with temperatures around 16-19C I can guarantee almost everyone would be happy even if it's not 20+ warm. Today is a rare day when the rare above average day itself has not been a shower fest.

First time it's actually felt comfortably warm this year. Hit 20C earlier this afternoon.

Today's been nice at least though still 2C below May average. Take what I can get though.

Again it's the fact that even in the worst Springs we usually have at least one warm spell that gives us a taste of summer, even if for only a day or two, by May. We have had 0, just fluctuating very slightly around the average which is useless if it's accompanied by cloud and rain. My maximum for the year is 18C, 4C above April average. To show how ridiculous that is, that's the equivalent of maxing out at 12C through all of December and January or 25C through all of June and July. I'd guess the latter 2 have never been done before so yes this "Spring" is unprecented in lack of warm spells.