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Had Worse aye true I should have said how the weather used to be before me needing a car for work completely screwed up the climate for us all.

Just walked down to the town centre to post a birthday card and it’s more damp in the air than actually raining or drizzling but it’s miserable all the same. it reminds me of a typical November day.

A damp start to the day and looking at the forecast, not much of an improvement likely up here in the hills at least until later this afternoon and possibly well into tomorrow. It’s not our turn for the football tickets this afternoon so looks like we are off down to the other end of the Irwell for a mooch around with a bit of shopping and a few beers to keep essential hydration levels up. tomorrow is then hopefully a few dry hours spent tidying up in the garden.

Scuba steve makes a nice change. doubt the tv camera’s will be showing hundreds of workers streaming out of the Oban offices and sat having lunch in shirt sleeves in the nearest park unless they’re all still working from home of course

A couple of light showers earlier this morning and pretty murky throughout the day with little sunshine but the forecasted heavier rain has held off so far. I’ll take cloudy and dry over the next few days if that’s the best thing that is on offer.

Grass is cut and a mixture of a few inside jobs and some pub time on the agenda so come on BHW weather, throw your worst at me.

Rain Lady aye same here. lovely day while I’m in work, dark threatening clouds on the way home, raining before I could get changed and get the lawn mower out. never mind there’s always tomorrow.

A bit of a murky start up here but hopefully it will clear with another lovely few hours following. forecast is looking promising.

Well no can accuse April of peaking too soon this year. last day of the month and right at the death it redeemed itself although not enough to be filed anywhere other than in the awful category.

Not impressed with the forecast I’ve just seen with a large area of rain parking itself east to west across central parts of the UK. Still plenty of time for things to change though and it may look completely different by weekend but the end of the working week is not looking great in these parts. before that it looks like west is best when it comes to sunshine with more cloud in the east and this will probably reach the Pennines at times. I doubt I will be dusting the BBQ off this weekend.

Cloudy and wet morning spent decorating, dry and largely sunny afternoon spent trailing around a certain large DIY store. seriously thinking that the the first bit was the more enjoyable although at least the afternoon ended with a few beers in the pub.

Chris.R it’s reached Bacup now which thanks to Dr Beeching, is something the Irwell Valley railway hasn’t done since December 1966. I’m just old enough to remember going on a train from Bacup to Manchester. enjoy your stay in the valley and if you get chance, try one of the real ale micro pubs in walking distance of the station.

Rain Lady aye it’s a typical double whammy for us, months of poor weather followed by paying the price for months of poor weather in higher food costs. I was talking to a farmer friend checking his sheep yesterday and he said he’s never known the ground as wet and the grass as slow in growing. Chris.R tell it to try a bit harder up here

Iceaxecrampon the radar isn’t lying. not heavy rain here but it’s wet and not looking like sodding off back over the Pennines any time soon. If the forecast is to be believed then hopefully something a bit drier this afternoon so the day might not be totally ruined and it will give me time to complete a bit of decorating that I couldn’t be bothered to finish last night.

Dark Horse sorry to hear that. may she rest in peace.

Chris.R now wrong with hiding in a pub in any weather but tomorrows rain band is looking to be very close to east Lancs so there’s a good chance you’ll need the shelter. A Face like Thunder good luck in the playoffs.

Bright start and hopefully a dry day coming up but the forecasts are showing tomorrows rain to be worryingly close to my part of the world. Maybe I just need to turn our local wind turbines round and see if will blow it all back onto the Yorkshire side of the Pennines although maybe it will just stop over there as it would if it was snow.

If I don’t get early finish Friday timed just right and I hit the school traffic then my 20 minute drive home can take 50 minutes and today was one of them but managed it and with typical April weather. dry and sunny mixed with the briefest of heavy showers and even a bit of hail mixed in. nice again now though with a bit of warmth in the sunshine but coolish in the shade. hopefully we’ll miss the weekends threat of rain and it will maintain the same track that it would if it was mid winter and snow forecast.

Looks like another morning to scrape the ice off the windscreen; certainly not unheard of in April but I feel like we’ve had more early morning frosts this month than Jan - March combined. Good to see the forecasters are still pushing the gradual warming next week and the Met extended outlook is talking about warm or even very warm conditions as we going further into next month so maybe we are finally seeing the end of this wretched period of weather and can look forward to venturing out without the need for a jacket. We’re not there yet though and the weekend is looking wet and cold for some although for a change it’s borderline for our our region and we may just about scrape a predominately dry couple of days with the wettest conditions to our south and east.

As with other parts of the region, a poor showery day and certainly worse than anything forecast. Wall to wall cloud until lunchtime then a few minutes sunshine here and there during the afternoon and as seems to have been the case throughout April, a cool feel to things. A couple of months earlier and it would have been a winter spell to tell the grandkids about but as usual, no such luck from this part of the planet and week after week, month after month of mediocrity is as good as it gets with anything remotely warm and dry being continually just beyond the reliable. even this weekends warming (sorry approaching average) trend is looking like early next week now.

Heard the rain on the dormer roof when I got up this morning and although it looks to have passed through now, it’s left everything damp so nowhere near as good a start to yesterday and Tuesday. doesn’t look like a bad day coming up though, maybe a few showers but compared to the conditions we’ve endured for much of this spring, passable. just need the warmer air to push up ahead of Saturdays system and for that to remain to our south, then we may manage to get a half decent few days.

carinthian now that is some snow, not the piddling amounts we have to put up with. It’s bad enough when wagon wheels and mars bars are affected by shrinkflation but these days it’s even snowfall.

Cut the grass on Sunday, cut it again today although with the blade set a notch lower and I’ve took as much off now as I did last time around. at least it looks more like a lawn and less like a upland meadow now but the sooner it dries out and growth slows down the easier it gets.

A lovely day although still a nagging cool feel to things. at least it’s dry though so probably worth cutting the grass before things no doubt deteriorate towards the weekend.

The first chink of daylight starting to appear when I got up at 4.45 this morning so even though the weather might still think it’s winter, summer is definitely on its way. just hope it doesn’t forget to bring its mates sunny, dry and warm with it.