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I'm royally fed up of this insipid weather on the north sea coast. Cool to cold, dull to dreary, damp to wet. It's even worse than this time last year, which I thought was about as poor as it could get.
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Can't catch a break here. Barely seen any sun this past week.
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8 minutes ago, Cakie said:
That thunder is something else, like a cannon being fired and the rain has gone insane
Not a thing 12 miles from you, but I can hear your storm, sounds like a bit of a humdinger!
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Just now, Aiden2012 said:
Quite happy for you guys but this is hard to watch just sat inbetween 2 massive storms
You ain't alone. Storms to my south over Whitby and East Cleveland last night, storms to my north up the Durham Coast today. Close but no cigar.
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9 minutes ago, P-M said:
I can't believe that I could take a direct hit from this monster. Veering right now not north....
Looks like your primed for a corker, good luck!
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2 hours ago, seabreeze86 said:
Very dense fog here visibility below 100m
Feeling rather cool at only 16C.
I spent yesterday evening listening to the sound of a lone foghorn from a cable laying ship off the coast of Saltburn.
Eerily relaxing, but would prefer to join in on the heatwave.
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4 minutes ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:
Hugs mate!
Thank you! Hope you see some sun before the day is out.
I'm going back outside to shake my fists at the cloud!
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Thick grey cloud overhead and it's clear just out to sea here too.
I give up complaining. Roll on Autumn and the receding expectations.
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Regional variations will require a rather broad stroke for this summer to attain anything approaching a statistical means average for sunshine. It's been absolute pap!
Subsisting on a side dish of pills, fish, and eggs for Vit. D when the main course should've been shining is downright dissatisfying.
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18 minutes ago, NorthSeaCloud said:
The filth Never even burned off here today, and took until 4pm yesterday to burn off. It’s 15c and if it weren’t for the trees and the fact it’s light at 8pm you’d think it was November.
I can bear witness to that. I'm about to cut the lawn with my phone torch strapped to the mower.
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The North Sea's cloud dumping on land has certainly given the sewage discharge spewing the other way a run for its money this year.
Another mare's tail of a day for me.
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9 hours ago, In Absence of True Seasons said:
I feel for you folks up in the N-East...considering you were also plagued by the clag for weeks when us in the S.East were also, throughout all of May and early June. Obviously, July was dire for pretty much the entirety of the country, and early August wasn't much better.
6/7 weeks of cloud, rain and temps in the high teens does NOT qualify as a 'summer' season! Regardless of how good that 2-3 week period was in June. That is simply Autumnal weather, and unpleasant Autumnal weather at that.
The sunshine in June was a lovely fillip, but losing the height of summer nationwide really is a bum deal.
Mercifully, the cloud dissipated as the afternoon wore on, and I guess one upshot from this third-rate weather stint, is just how lush and green the plant life is:
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1 minute ago, NorthSeaCloud said:
Another grim day here, 100% cloud cover with the sky full of North Sea cloud.
I was hoping it would burn off during the morning, but the cloud has doubled down over us now.
It's been so poor for so long up here, I don't see how the season can be salvaged sufficiently to justify calling it a summer.
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Day of two halves yesterday, sunny morning, overcast afternoon and evening.
Hoping today does the opposite about-face because it's cloudy this morning.
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On 04/08/2023 at 11:34, In Absence of True Seasons said:
Indeed. How are you finding living in the Faroe Islands?
Personally, I've had my fill now. Torshavn has been nice - something different - but i'm quite ready to return back to London next summer.
Torshavn has probably fared better than any of us have for the last half dozen weeks or so.
To have weeks and weeks scrubbed out either side of a decent spell in June has wrecked my zen.
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18 hours ago, NorthSeaCloud said:
We’ve literally had no sun at all this month, and I mean not a second of sun.
Was fortunate enough to see a few fleeting breaks in the grey slab yesterday, totted up to about 90 seconds of sunshine.
Won't be that lucky today.
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I saw more of the Moon last December than I've seen of the Sun this July.
Nothing else needs to be said about this month.
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22 minutes ago, Flash bang flash bang etc said:
Not sure on this take - the NE has always been a storm alley from what I’ve seen.
Maybe from a direct-hit POV it’s been patchy, but from a chaser’s perspective lincs looks like it’s always been a bit of a dream. As Supercell very aptly put it chasing can be very expensive if you’re always travelling a long way to meet a storm, but this is particularly true of chasing from the south, as you are regularly heading toward a storm from the back and trying to somehow get ahead of it. This is even worse if you’re chasing from the south west, as the track of the majority of storms is NEward… so it’s double pootown if you’re a chaser in that situation
I’ve given up on any chase further than the M4 (and even that’s a push) as it’s just too much effort there and back, even if you get a decent result it does sometimes seem like the juice has barely been worth the squeeze.
Really putting my hopes into a shift to sourthern areas getting their fill as we move into August and beyond. We are deserved several big events now by rights - but just one proper storm that doesn’t bust would be enough.
I would class Lincolnshire as eastern England, between the SE and NE, but I take your point on the general track of storms.
I haven't had a direct hit from a convective downpour this year, nevermind an actual storm, though I appreciate that's an unfortunate exception for my region rather than the norm.
Being much further south, you will only have to bide your time for the next humdinger
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1 hour ago, P-M said:
Most unstable day here for a long time. These to my south now they're popping up everywhere.
Glad to see the cobwebs have finally been blown off and the tumbleweed kicked into touch. Been a very uneventful few years for the N.E. region as a whole.
I've had no measurable rain today, which is really surprising given the ample convection.
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2 hours ago, Summer Sun said:
Another thunderstorm over Darlo not bad considering we're outside the warning zone
Any idea on your rainfall total for the day so far?
I was casting an envious eye over Darlington's convective cloudscape earlier when I was soaking my lawn with the hosepipe. Had nothing but a few spits and spots of rain in Middlesbrough.
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Just heard a growling rumble of thunder from the storm passing over Darlington.
Nothing here again so far. Middle of July and I'm still waiting on my first convective downpour of the year, nevermind an actual storm overhead.
Would love some proper rainfall for my lawn today.
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1 hour ago, alexisj9 said:
The cold front is over us now, and although the radar shows ppn we've nothing falling.
Surprised by that, the radar is showing some fairly heavy ppn in your locality.
I've got everything crossed for some convective rainfall tomorrow.
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This is dross. If it has to be dull and breezy, could it at least rain enough to actually benefit my lawn.
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1 hour ago, danm said:
Just a reminder of June 2012 from the anomaly maps:
Memorable for many wrong reasons.
I moved house in the middle of that month, and never broke sweat.
Wearing a hat and hoody in the middle of June, while doing the heavy lifting and multiple stair runs should have seen me faint, but not 06/2012
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Moans, ramps and banter
in Spring Weather Discussion
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Third straight day of North Sea clag.
I thought Spring 23 was about as bad it could get up here, but I was wrong. Blue sky has become a transient weather phenomena, like lightning or a rainbow. I used to winge about a run of grey mornings, now I just shrug my shoulders at the start of most days.