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Hazy sunshine until mid afternoon yesterday but then overcast, misty. Far from any "warm" weather, it was disappointingly cool.

Rubbish Bank Holiday weekend weather is forming as usual, "guaranteed" wind and rain on Sunday and Monday.

Apart from the few hours of sunshine around midday today, disappointingly wet weekend here, with light rain on Sat until 4pm, and almost continuous rain after 3pm today - the latter was not in any forecast and a dry afternoon was predicted here, no rain before the evening and certainly not in this amount.

Back to rain. Hills are white above just 150m.

Needed co complain... It is snowing in the Vale of Clwyd. Now that's a surprise

Exactly right - they never admit any wrong forecast (well, very rarely), yet we pay them the same - the excuse is always the same "oh well, the weather has the last word"!

What cold and snow ? It is 4.6 C here and even on Moel Famau (555m), no white stuff. Over exaggerated forecast on the BBC, including graphics which shows full white for the Northern half of Wales for 9am...Really? Also, yesterday, we had at least 4 hours of sunshine despite gloomy forecast ( pics are showing Easterly and Westerly direction from near St Asaph).

Perfect timing for the clouds to invade, exactly before sunrise, to conserve the cold. You couldn't make it up. Apart from being dry, this 5C cloudy crap is not my favourite type of weather.

Today, not so lucky, overcast skies after 11am - nothing like the METO has predicted "sunny, then high clouds in the pm". And I pay money to see the "shaded maps" from which sunshine is impossible to judge. Meteo France provides a far better service/graphics.

Today, not so lucky, overcast skies after 11am - nothing like the METO has predicted "sunny, then high clouds in the pm".

7-8 hours of beautiful sunshine, with the SE wind, pushing up T to 15C here as well, in the lovely vale of Clwyd - rain and cloud shadow.

Someone here on the forum said in October that 5 months misery is coming. I thought, come on, we will have nice sunny periods, looks like I was wrong..it is now 3 months misery (weatherwise), with very little settled or sunny weather...... Today, it had to cloud over as soon as the sun appeared in the sky to conserve the "just above freezing" T, then from midday, light rain, followed by heavy rain and from 3pm to 4pm sleet for an hour - this was not really in any forecast for today. Pictures taken around 4pm from above St Asaph, to the West and to the East, respectively.

Was not as sunny yesterday afternoon as was forecasted by the METO, it has cleared by early pm but very soon cumulus invaded from the north. Here is your "clear skies" late pm, above the Vale of Clwyd. and no frost here this morning, currently 1.9C, it is just too much breeze.

Our sunshine:

Well, at least 5 hours of sunshine in St Asaph, North Wales today, from 10am to 4pm. Forecast of course was for overcast skies.

What cold and bright spell? We had 2 frosty nights: last Saturday and yesterday with 1 Sunny day, yesterday. The lowest temp last Sat was -2.5C - even my greenflies survive this in the garden. That is it. We have more sun between weather fronts then in windless weather with floating stratus. This is why I am waiting for tomorrow, when it really brightens up after the fronts - there is nothing enjoyable for me (weather wise) under the clouds or in rain in +3C.

Pathetic 30 mins sunshine around midday before the stratus muck re-developed. What frost people are talking about? It is 4.9C outside. Oh yeah, it did not rain today, almost forgot to mention this.. Come on Spring, this Winter is useless.

Which means thick cloud for us today - again.

BBC forecast 2 days ago for Sat (North Wales): high pressure, sunshine, high cloud then thick cloud for afternoon, snow from dusk with some sleet at low level, frost overnight Reality: no sunshine, no snow (but rain), no frost. Even Kent have lying snow and had sunshine. We are too north for decent sunny spells on many Summer days. We are too west for decent thunderstorms. We are too south (or west) for decent snowfall at lower level. We are too east for rare HP influence from the Atlantic. Wales should be moved to the Eastern side of the UK...

Great to hear it is snowing around us - all day rain here (well, from 10am to 4pm), in 2C, disgusting weather. What kind of high pressure and sunshine the whole BBC was taking about just 48 hours ago for today? LOL

Thunder and lightning , T = +2.6C. Heavy snow showers from 6pm last night. Clwydian range and hills above 250m are pure white. Lovely scene.

Exactly. If it is just not cold enough for something white (apart from hail), then...I want high pressure. We deserve it for 2 months.

Absolutely ridiculous amount of rain today in the Vale of Clwyd, I did not measure but localised (10-100m long) floodings on numerous B roads and on the A525 from Trefnant to Ruthin. No forecast mentioned this amount of rain at all. Around 4pm, we had a thunderstorm but in the showers (at least 15 showers or longer spells of rain), hail mixed in. Just terrible.

It looks like there IS "some" balance though as the Eastern 1/4 of the map is very blue. Hopefully both sides of the map get some balance.

The rain shadow effect has worked in the Vale of Clwyd as well today, maybe a few mm, and the contours of the Sun could be seen for hours, when heavy rain the the West and N of us. The strength of the wind though is out of this world, especially the length of this strong wind....