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Sunny, 18.6°C according to my nearest official station.

How is "plenty of warm sunshine" not neutral? Sun feels warm, which is an objective statement, isn't it? Also, seeing as we live in one of the cloudiest countries in the world, what happened to cause so many people on this forum to hate the sun and anything summer related exactly? Try imagining what it must be like for people who live in Texas or Arizona. The UK is a cloudy weather lover's paradise. With regards those charts about next week's weather, well we just need that high to be slightly east of the UK to pull those really nice warmer airmasses up over, highs sitting out in the atlantic giving us maritime boring north westerly cloudy rubbish don't excite me much. Also, 850 temps of 0 over the UK on 31st May is lame.

16:44 19.8°C, partly cloudy, 45% humidity, light breeze from the west. It felt cooler outside to me than the temperature suggests, because o the wind and the low humidity. Not too bad though, hopefully much warmer will be on the way shortly.

Who gets paid to write this rubbish?

Since 12th May hasn't been bad here, dry but more cloudy than sunny with reasonable temperatures. Days 3-11 really ruined the start to the month, those were puerile garbage right out of late autumn. The temperature has just been very consistent and boring, no ups or downs particularly since 12th, I would prefer more variation and more convective weather as well.

Interesting statistic: I haven't recorded any overnight lows in double figures this year yet. This could be the latest it's ever happened unless it happens in the next few days. Hopefully, of course, it will do as the weather normally warms up quickly at this time of year.

Well today was a load of old rubbish, cold and cloudy, with lots of drizzle. Shortlived, I hope. Hoping to see warm, sunny and humid weather coming up, with some storms thrown in please

Finally some more milder conditions befitting of spring, after the ridiculously cold start to the month. Temp inside is now 18°C without heating on. A nice taster of better things to come hopefully, looking forward to warmer, and also humid weather this summer.

Yeah, I'm aware averages are made up of colder and warmer months. In my records since 2007 I've seen only one truly awful May (2015), and two that started awful but improved in the second half (2010, 2012). In fact in the last 12 years May has done better than other months, so perhaps this cold wet one was "overdue". Even so this May is vastly more below average than any of the other poor ones in my records so far. Not going to complain though, one expects it to happen every now and again, just like June 2012. Hopefully it won't be happening again for 50 years.

Not to be funny or anything, as we all have different prefereces. But what temperature do you generally need to use Air Conditioning? I live in a north facing apartment and so far indoor temps are about 15°C without heat and I get it to about 18°C - with central heating with the current temperatures. I am quite warm/heat tolerant myself, so whenever I go abroad (love the Mediterranean climates) I often argue to turnoff the AC when the person I'm with always wants it on! It's only been up to 26°C in my apartment last July, so no AC required for me, but I know south facing rooms can get hot even with cool temps and a lot of sun.

Average summers here aren't that bad. Average high of 21°C with 200 hours of sun a month and 50mm of rain. Highs of 12 are very unusual here in July+August. This May weather though is about 8°C below average here (avg max is 16.4°C for May) which is pretty unprecedented - though we still have 2/3 of the month to go, so it will be very unlikely to end that way.

Exactly. Nobody expects the UK to suddenly transform into the Mediterranean. It is unusual for the weather to go from one extreme one year, to the very opposite in the very next. From one of the warmest Mays on record to possibly the coldest. That has to be pretty unusual within a short space of time.

Me too, I'm like the coldies who go into hibernation in summer, but in reverse. I go into hibernation in summer when below average gunk slips into the woodwork and northern blockin patterns get established. I bet that no less do I forget about the weather, a sudden heatwave will appear out of nowhere.

Garbage weather today, I am not an "anti rain" person either - I like rain, in showers and thunderstorms with mild or warm weather. Not all day drizzle with temperatures that would be more befitting of February in freakin' May. Hope this rubbish cold nonsense disappears and soon.

Yeah south of the Midlands had some really good storms in late May last year but sadly they all missed northern England. I used to live in the South and had some good night time storms there though.

Up here, July gets the most of this type of thing going by my records. In fact I've almost never seen storm overnight in June or August here.

I hope it has a lot of thunderstorm activity. I haven't seen a proper thunderstorm since 2016. Don't care about really sunny dry weather like last year, though I like warmer than average conditions. Warm and convective would do nicely.

13:19 10°C, 60% humidity, scattered clouds. A bit on the cooler side but nothing unusual.

Well bear in mind I'm new to looking into this sort of thing, so what is obvious to many here, is not to me, but I'm happy to learn.

I find it hilarious how that low pressure system after the northerly just moves over the UK and then sits there going round and round in circles! I always used to think places like Scandinavia would get more low pressure than the UK in summer being further North but they actually get much sunnier warmer and drier weather than we do May-Sept. What makes the low pressure sit over the UK so much?

Not been notably dry here. Last year was wetter than average, and Jan+Feb were quite dry, but these are months with low evaporation rates which were followed by a March with twice the normal rainfall. April did miss any significant precipitation, but this spring is only running slightly below average thanks to March, and May looks to easily make up for that.

Winter: Mild, sunny and dry. Summer: Hot, humid and stormy with intense lightning storms and torrential rain on at least half the days.

Today's cack! I mean it's the kind of weather even coldies despise in January, and in May it's just useless lol. The fact that hoardes of people were out enjoying themselves last May bank holiday but the few who can be bothered to go outside this weekend are bundled up in coats hats and scarves with an umbrella today says it all!

I've lived in Northern England since 2003 and it is utterly pathetic for thunder! Maybe a decent storm once every 3-5 years and about 3-4 days with some rumbles a year on average. I get my storm fill from YouTube videos mostly, and also I watch the high quality webcams in places like Chicago, Dallas or New Orleans when they get big spring/summer thunderstorms. The two places I lived which actually got something resembling a "thunderstorm" once a year in the UK were Berkshire and Lincolnshire.

It's days like this in May that make you realise how wonderful it is that alcohol was invented