Azazel

It’s that time of year again where I just feel utterly exhausted and like I’ve ran a marathon. Absolutely desperate for some warmer weather so I can recharge.

At least this summer I’m going to Spain for a bit. Last summer I couldn’t escape the July of nightmares

SollyOlly this is where I really will agree with you. The weather is becoming so homogenous. I think if we were guaranteed a proper winter, those who struggle with the heat would grin and bear a proper summer and vice Versa. I hate the uncertainty in this country of knowing that spring and summer might be rubbish and I might have to wait another year until a decent one comes along - and obviously I admit those who enjoy snow etc have much more to complain about in our modern climate.

Josh Rubio looks like a continuation of the bilge we’ve had for 7 months solid now.

northwestsnow its been the case for the last 3-4 springs now. Winter has moved as a season.

I see single digit temps appearing again in the 10 day range. last spring was the worst ever, but it looks like this spring is going to run it real close. God awful.

Does feel weirdly warm outside. Shame it won’t really last but it’s got me hankering even more for warm weather

This is one of the grimmest looking forecasts I’ve seen at this time of year. Endless wind and marginally less cold.

CryoraptorA303 as a layman, that’s definitely the case. The general public has been bombarded with articles and speculation that the south of England will soon have a Mediterranean climate. Most people associate the Med with heat. These constant sound bites about how the U.K. will soon be able to grow pineapples in Blackpool have definitely led people to believe it’s gonna get hotter and drier. Not many of them expected us to turn into the lost city of Atlantis.

CryoraptorA303 don’t get me wrong I would love for it not to rain again until Christmas if I had my way

raz.org.rain I do struggle with humidity to be fair so I just make sure I take all the steps possible to mitigate it. Drink a cosmic tonne of water etc. humidity means the chance of big storms so I’m all for it!

raz.org.rain didnt the CFS predict similar last summer? Which model/forecaster suggested a plume filled summer? The literal opposite happened so i'm a bit nervous now.

cold and sunny. Hate the wind and rain more than anything - though rain is kinda nice after a heatwave breakdown as long as it doesnt overstay its welcome! Wind is just garbage in every way.

CryoraptorA303 I would take it - 2019 had some spectacular thunderstorms for my area and some actual heat.

Definitely some shear/convergence going on. The scuddy lowering moving roughly north to south and everything to the right moving south to north

Nice to see an actual convective cloud base again

Showers getting going now. Just had a brief sprinkle in between some strong April sunshine

Is there shear in the forecast? Got a lot of movement in different directions it’s also very active - for March especially

Wasn’t expecting the thunderstorm today but here we are

What a horrifying outlook.

Sun is out here. Everyone is sat inside but I am sat in the garden legs akimbo and splayed out in the sun like a washed up bin bag. I can feel the strength on my pallid, grey skin and it’s glorious

My partners parents live in a little village called St. Mary Bourne and every time I drive over there, even though it’s only like 5 miles away, it takes me half hour because the route is full of trucks and equipment pumping the floodwater. They’ve been there every day since December I think. The water is coming up through peoples downstairs toilets etc and the road is lined with sandbags. Never seen that before.

Interesting cell maybe passing over Andover just now. Couldn’t make out too much structure as the sky is just varying shades of grey, but the wind changed direction rapidly as it went over suggesting some shear

B87 2022 too. Spring was no great shakes. According to Wunderground, London hit the 20c no times in March (fair enough) and ONCE in April (15th) - took until May to see decent temps 2021 had a lovely 3 day spell at the end of March where we hit 20c (I remember it well) 0 times in April and then only 3 times in May. So actually, it looks like we've only hit 20c on one solitary April day in the past 3 springs. I wonder if we can make it four? I swear I was gaslit on here for saying the last several springs have been c**p with people telling me 2021 was great etc but the temps say otherwise. Something has changed in our climate. One crap spring with reduced temps you could say fine, that's a fluke. Two Springs is coincidence. Three Springs (and what looks like a fourth) is a pattern. Winter seems to have shifted into a completely different section of the year. I would argue our seasons are now something like May (Spring) June/July (Summer) August - Feb (Autumn) March-April (Winter)

Yeah this is ludicrous now. Absolutely throwing it down. No spring again it looks like. Becoming a theme since the 2020 lockdown. Feels like a definite climatological shift of sorts and I am very depressed.