Summer of 95

Sun is out! Still have that cool wind but at last some proper daylight

Avoided most of the grot over the weekend but it's back with a vengeance today. Can't remember seeing North Sea crud reaching so far west before

In the clear slot at last! Sun came out about 10 and is still out

It's trying to come out, maybe had about 5 minutes of sunshine so far. Still 7/8 overcast though

Nearly 4pm and still no sign of it burning off. I'd have thought that with the sea being at its warmest in late summer, North Sea muck would have more difficulty forming at all compared to spring/early summer let alone spreading right across Britain.

More gunk today, cleared up at 2pm but will it today? That mass of cloud seems exactly where the clearance was yesterday, unbelievable to see North Sea muck reach the west Welsh coast

If we break high pressure records and still get hardly any sunshine it's the final straw for modern Augusts! What will we have to do to get a sunny one....

Sunshine? Had light rain on and off since 7am and still totally overcast. Apart from the unexpected thunder shower last Thursday it has been a really tedious month

Overall about equal to 2001 though slightly different: 2001 had a few 3-day hot spells, a few rubbish days and lots of "average" 20-24C partly sunny with the odd shower weather. 2021 has had a couple of 7-10 day warm spells in between long periods of cloudy rubbish, with a few "average" days. 2001 was much better for thunder and connective weather, it was wetter and sunnier than 2021 so far. But overall both in the "average" category. Definitely better than 2011 which had what we have now almost continuously for 3 months, save an occasional day or half-day that got into the mid-20s and one surprise night time storm in August. The only real summer weather came in late Sept and early Oct.

We've had hardly any rain in this spell (barring a couple of hours late Saturday night) but also hardly any sun either. Its unreal how any kind of NW/SE or W/E split just gives us cloudy boring dross; it happens when the SE gets the heat now its happening when the NW has the sunshine. We get the same weather from opposite setups. But, is it just round here that this month has felt decidedly reminiscent of June 2006? That started with a lot of fine warm weather until the football started, then we had a good 10-12 days of tedious cloudy crud though not very wet, before it started warming up again right at the end. I think the SE kept the good weather right through, so the opposite setup but it felt very similar weatherwise.

Its nowhere near full moon so my guess is a Spanish plume probably won't work properly here. It'll just be cloud and cloud while Londonland bakes and lights up, or London bakes and Yorkshire lights up, or Holland gets everything.

Lancashire gets the best weather when North Sea Muck spreads across to eastern Wales but is blocked by the Pennines everywhere north of Crewe. Herefordshire southwards doesn't get cloud from the Cheshire Gap. In summer the Welsh mountain rain/cloud shadow takes effect somewhere around Coventry (in winter it's Welshpool, about 75 miles further west) SE/the rest setups for days/weeks/months is the Gloucester-Hull divide (I used to say Hereford-Lincoln but I think it's moved south on one side and north on the other in the last 15 years...) . Whichever way, Shropshire gets cloud. That is what is really annoying about summers round here!

Yes the infill started appearing before the murk had properly burnt off! Struggling to see how that can happen tbh, infill needs sunshine before it can develop. Finally was largely sunny about 5 but now clouded over again. Yesterday was much sunnier here.

Fully cloudy till 1pm, infill cloud started appearing before the morning gunk had completely gone (how the..?), finally was mostly sunny about 5 but now cloudy again. Agree with others it was a very poor forecast (was not supposed to be any cloud till late afternoon)

Yep completely cloudy here, just seems to have appeared from nowhere since it was clear at 2am. And its just Shropshire and Cheshire and NE Wales by the look of the satellite. Not the first time I've seen this!

Raining again, all week the forecast has been dry for today until last night. 19C and plenty of sun yesterday thought that was set in for the weekend...

Cant help thinking this isn't normal for mid May. It's the same all around here, oaks have leaves but they don't seem fully developed, others are either almost bare or stuck at the small green leaf stage that you normally see for a week or two in April. But the daffodils were out at the normal time (late Feb/early Mar)

Last time Arsenal finished this low in the league was 1995. Which was the lowest since 1976. Just saying....

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That last one definitely had sleet in it, the one at lunchtime was quite big hail, must have been 6 or 7 of heavy rain today. And some sunshine, luckily all the showers missed me on the dog walk!

May Days have never really stuck in my mind most of the time, probably because I went to schools that ignored it being a holiday from the age of 11, and then worked most of them in my 20s and 30s, so for a long time it was just a random Monday. I do remember the switcharounds in 1995 and 1997 but not much else. Also the one in 2013 for being warm and sunny (on the Monday at least) in an otherwise cold spring. The worst bank holiday for weather I remember was the Jubilee one in 2012, weather like today's over the whole weekend (it was June), and the fact that the week before when it should have been was glorious.

It's snowing again, even though it feels milder than the last few nights (it started as drizzle) Not heavy enough to stick at the moment but probably would if we got some heavier stuff

Quite wet snow shower here, no sticking yet but feels like it could if the heavier stuff north of here manages to move south

Still most of yesterday evening's snow on the grass, quite a bit still on cars, houses and hedges, easily more than half cover at 0900 GMT so a day of lying snow in April. Survived very well for 1cm, 14 hours on the ground and only went down to -1 last night.

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