In Absence of True Seasons

SunSean Not even a wisp of grey! You're currently missing out on intermittent hailstones in Essex, joyous.

Andrea it sprung for 24 hours on Saturday

MP-R Hailstones here

MP-R Today is dire. Probably just about the worse conditions possible for mid April, imo. Heavy winds, pelting rain, and barely double digits. Thankfully only a one day affair, rest of the week looks a lot better.

marky810 It's done for many places across the country. I drove up North with a friend last weekend and most of the countryside we went through, was properly flooded. There were huge ponds and pools in fields that shouldn't exist. You could've kayaked on them, such were some of their size. Even with the few days of drier weather at a time that we are now shifting towards seeing, a single afternoon or morning of rain brings us back to being sodden again and undoes all the drying that's been achieved. We legitimately need weeks without any rain whatsoever to sort things out, which just isn't going to happen, because we live in the UK.

MP-R It did have this though (in London, at least). Aprils from 2015 to 2020 saw some real warm spells, and they often fell on weekends too. Lucky indeed.

CryoraptorA303 Some house are definitely poorly insulated. Overall though, some people just have completely different tolerances / perceptions to temperature. There are people on this forum for whom 20c is "too hot" and "uncomfortable" whereas to me, and many others, 20c is basically just the beginning of anything properly warm, a world away from hot.

stainesbloke definitely subdued! Although much if central Europe just had a very good spell of warm sunny weather well into the 20c's. Swings and roundabouts.

Azazel Yeah it's pretty dry which is good, but it's rather poor to not be seeing a single day over 15c for the foreseeable. It's just 13/14c and "partly" sunny. Very meh. We had a run of April's with properly warm spells in the mid to late 2010s, and then obviously we had April 2020 which was something else entirely...since then though, they've been very uninspired.

stainesbloke Is that the weather in Czechia that you mean? Not looking *too* bad in London. 14/15c with sun and cloud, no rain other than some showers tomorrow

Reasonably nice, semi sunny and dry day here. Just a shame that yesterday's warmth has gone as quickly as it came! A real "one day wonder" The next week looks very average all round. Mostly dry though which is better than previously

First proper warm day of the year. And I'm already sunburnt. Classic

raz.org.rain I don't think it's a conspiracy. It's just the reality of lots of planes in the sky.

It'd actually be more or less clear here if it weren't for the aeroplane trails. Most of the haze I can see in the sky is coming from them.

Quite impressive how the UK is one of the only places almost fully covered by cloud in the entirety of Europe. SE England doing ok but elsewhere in Britain...not so much. We genuinely do need the stars to align here to manifest a properly clear day for everyone (not just part of the country).

cyclonic happiness 1000%

Metwatch literally not a single cloud over the entirety of Spain and Portugal Madness. I'm not even sure that's even a possible feat for the British Isles lol.

Weather Enthusiast91 It was all still quite bleak looking until recently. The last week or so has really seen some growth.

Afternoon ended up all lot better than the morning! Perfect for an afternoon walk with my friend and his dog. Flowering has properly bloomed in the last week...looking very spring-like and pretty.

Well, looks like instead of burning off, the haze is actually thickening as the day goes on, and what would've / should've / could've been a day where the 20c temp will actually feel like 20c and the warmth of the sun can be on you, will once again be marred by claggy nonsense. It's apparently 16c atm but feels about 11c honestly with the cold breeze and complete cloud cover.

SunSean It's a type of Crohn's / IBD. Yeah I've done some experimenting with diets, it's interesting how impactful they can be in relation to illnesses like this. I've personally found that the sort of 'healthy' diets prescribed by mainstream media / pop culture i.e. lots of leafy greens, salads, raw veg, high-fibre grains, beans etc really exacerbate my symptoms. I tried a raw vegan-type diet a few years back which is supposedly the most "anti inflammatory" diet, and it made me feel like death. I currently have a mostly animal-foods based diet (close to keto but not quite) so lots of meat, fish, dairy, alongside some fruit and whole carbs like porridge, sourdough bread etc. By far the easiest for me to tolerate and minimises all the fatigue, inflammation, brain fog etc. I take vitamin D, as well as magnesium & zinc combined supplement. The modern healthcare/medicine industry is a little useless for helping to treat illnesses like this. If there's nothing by infrastructurally wrong with you on their scans and via blood tests etc, they'll just say "It all seems to be fine!" when it's clearly not fine. They have no holistic approaches to illnesses at all. I had to effectively do my own research into the mechanisms of the human gut and trial-error ways to help minimise my inflammation via diet, exercise, etc. Plus of course, as you say, telling a patient to eat less processed foods and hydrogenated oils means less £££ for the system, ultimately.

SunSean Very regional I think. I'm not far from you but only had about 2 hours of part sun yesterday early-mid evening. Definitely not 5. Today...very hazy as expected but I think this should (hopefully) burn off a bit later on. It's forecasted 20c so be a real shame if the sun is once again stuck under the eternal cloud.

Alderc 2.0 That'll be a very sunny period for you, nice! I spent a 4 month entire summer with an ex-partner some years ago in California (she was from there), was so wonderful to have so much useable weather and waking up daily to sunny, bright mornings, not having to worry about whether it'll randomly, suddenly become cloudy and rainy en-route to the beach, etc. It's crazy how much you can actually get done in such conditions, too. Productivity goes through the roof. I learnt to surf, for example, in a short span of time purely because of the weather conditions meant I could practice daily with ease.

TwisterGirl81 Enjoy it! Very regional today, so some lucky, some less so. Definitely deserve it in the SW though. Well, we all deserve it, but your areas have been truly plagued by the wettest and dullest conditions lately.

Summer8906 I don't know about on record, I mean, how dull can some Aprils get? Certainly we below average sunshine levels though, which after an entire year of every single month (aside from, what, June and September?) being below average sunshine and above average rainfall, is really not what we need. Alderc 2.0 Where are you off to? I've heard the Faroe Islands are nice this time of year. It'd make you feel right at home