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Another day same old weather.Pretty much like yesterday ,which was another washout with rain starting about 10.45 and finally stopped about4!!Gone to work this morning got soaked again and currently sitting in van waiting for it to stop.Reckon by 11.30 we should have a good 6 hour dry spellNever known a spell of weather like this in 20 years of doing garden maintenance (this current pattern of weather started about mid October 2023 and shows no sign of letting up for at least another 2 weeks!).Really is exceptional in a negative way although at least there won’t be any water restrictions (well the way Thames Water is being run maybe not). Happy Easter everybody and let’s hope we get a nice bit of soon!

Neilsouth Yep not helpful when you plan your working day accordingly and you are self employed working outside.Forecast only 40 miles out but that makes a huge difference to a lot of people.In this day and age it just shows there is nowhere near 100% accuracy even 12 hours beforehand!Frustrating but the weather will do what it wants to do!!

Can’t believe that yet again we are due another washout tomorrow!What is it about Thursdays atm.?3 out the last 4 have been complete washouts !Of course the forecast could be wrong but it looks 80/90% certain for the rain to be falling steadily tomorrow for my part of NW Kent from 8am-6pm️

This February really has been a bust in terms of what the models predicted and I really thought in terms of the winter months it held the best chance of a wintry spell for the U.K. as a whole.It was only mid late January that all models including the GLOSEA model that showed a real blocked picture and for them all to be wrong has totally bemused me tbh.I know we are only 14 days into Feb but now the models are pretty much all in agreement for next 10 days that there will be no blocking so that pretty much covers all of February.I had always held GLOSEA in high regards but just goes to show you that all the best models can and do get it wrong(this also happened last summer as well).Something is causing this but what?Is it simply the warm SSTs?I don’t have the answers as I am not qualified enough but something is going on which worries me for the future as the World continues to warm at an alarming rate.

Already a balmy 10.6 today and will probably get to 12 degrees today,13 or 14 tomorrow and that’s with the prospect of little or no sun!!Looked at Mod thread about 10pm last night and checked just now and only 3 posts in about 9 hours!!That says it all and think everyone has given up on this winter me included.Roll on spring

BarnetBlizzard That would gives the alps a nice dumping and kick start the ski season again

Neilsouth Yep last night at 10pm met office app said rain started at between 2-3 pm.Started in Orpington at 9.05 and hammering down now and radar has filled so quickly and looks like rain all day now!!Thought I had a good 4/5 hours of work and reality probably just be the 1 hour!Not great when you are a self employed gardener!!That is such a poor forecast from only 12 hours outOh well better get on with some accounts as bit behind on them!!Have a good day everyone rant over.

Absolutely stunning day today and lovely to work inFelt like spring arrived and tbh looking at next 14 days unless the models flip it looks like it will stay mild pretty much for all of February which was very different to what a lot of experts thought even as late as mid January .Been an awful winter for us snow starved South Easterners but now I look forward to spring and more of days like today will bring on all the colour that comes with Spring

This Winter has really been a major disappointment really with seemingly so many things in our favour leading into Winter yet things seem to have gone the way of the pear.Although we still have over 3 weeks of Feb left and models still showing northern blocking from say 15th onwards i am not convinced this will happen tbh.Its been Model chaos this last 5 days and we seem to yet again gone from a cold outlook to a just average outlook for the next 7 days,espicially down here in the SE.Once we get past say 7th or 8th march down here you can forget chances of lying snow here down here although inappreciate those up north winter can continue for a good 2-3 weeks more so good luck to those areas getting a few more bites of the cherry.If indeed come early March we are still snowless it will be a real kick in the you know whats from a snow pov and makes me question what has caused us snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

@Metwatch Thanks for sending those clips above.I thought it might be more newsworthy but I found nothing on mainstream news about it.What was strange was the British civil aviation authorities felt it was unsafe to take off from Sal on Thursday which is fair enough yet flights from Sal still continued that afternoon to Helsinki,Milan and Prague as our European friends felt it was ok to fly.Although it was pretty chaotic and frustrating I would much prefer to be safe than sorry in these instances.

@Metwatch All that dust was over Cape Verde due to a sandstorm.Boa was hit worse but we had our flight cancelled from Sal on Thursday and got out yesterday luckily and got home early hours this morning.Those hoping to go to Boa not so lucky as no flights in or out yesterday and some poor souls from Birmingham who were diverted to Sal on Thursday had their whole holiday cancelled yesterday and were flying home yesterday.Sal airport was chaos on Thursday and we were stuck there 9 hours before we got shipped back to a hotel.And we were lucky as some people ended up sleeping in hotel reception as all hotels were full!!

Scandinavia and Eastern Europe well and truly in the freezer again.Apart from a few days this week where milder temperatures occur this has been a winter to remember for them .The trough seems to have been stuck over them since late October it seems.A winter of the 80s for them with record cold temperatures.

Yes my best mate lives in Brussels and for that area that could get between 10-25cms!,Could be a very decent event.

Yes exactly the same for me as well.Forecast -2 last night yet was -4.8 in the end.The forecast high was 3 yet we only hit 2.Has been a trend this winter I have found.

Another beautiful sunny winters day here.Peaked at exactly 2 degrees but dropped to -0.9 now but looks like cloud will move in so won’t be as cold as last night maybe a -2 if we are lucky.Would love that area of low pressure move 50 miles north at the last minute but about a 2% chance of that happening unfortunately