Autumn 2024 Moans, ramps and banter

[Alderc 2.0]

Day 9 of the great gloom. Have averaged 5mins and 15seconds of sun each day over the last 8 days.

[SLAMMER]

gloom isn't great but at least we've had a dry spell which is much needed and i'd much rather a few people moaning about a bit of grey than more floods and damage which even moderate rainfall would have caused.  Thank heaven for a nice dry spell, at last!

[BlueHedgehog074]

It is the main thing I guess, at least it’s dry. Something that really felt overdue.

Will also see about that… ️

[In Absence of True Seasons]

On 23/10/2024 at 16:36, In Absence of True Seasons said:

 Weatherman_93 I have about as much faith in that coming off, as I have faith in my ability to not drink a single pint of beer for the remainder of 2024!

A couple of weeks back, the BBC forecast had this near-solid run of mostly sunny to fully sunny weather, to which I replied the above light-hearted comment (but knowing full-well there'd be truth in it).

As expected, what actually manifested? Not just a lack of fully sunny days, but a lack of any sunshine whatsoever. Just simply an entire 7+ days period of unbroken greyness. 

Meteorologically, what causes these forecasts to be so completely off, repeatedly? I actually think that nearly even single forecasted spell of sunny + dry weather throughout 2024 was downgraded as the time arrived, oftentimes downgraded to zero sun at all. 

Anyway, hope everyone is enjoying living in this sunless existence. Remember to take your Vitamin D tablets! 

[In Absence of True Seasons]

 SLAMMER Oh it's definitely better than a washout, but 'a bit of grey' is a slight understatement given that, my area at least, recorded 0.3 hours of sun in an 8 day span, lol. 

I suppose these weather conditions affect people differently. For me, long periods of unbroken, blanket cloud like this notably impact my mood / mental state and productivity. I also develop a sort of pressure headache between my eyebrows / lower forehead. It was the same back in Spring this year when we had those entire weeks of just grey and drizzle.

Ultimately, we are comparing turds here lol. Yes, 8 days of grey nothingness is better than 8 days of grey *and* rain, but ya'know, losing both legs is worse than losing just one, but neither situations are positive.

[Mizzle]

The odd thing is, it doesn't feel at all 'dry' despite the absence of rain. Most days here we have had - ironically for me - mizzle, and the grass is perpetually damp and soggy. I understand for those in other areas further rain would be hugely problematic after the year we have had, but, imby, even a downpour would feel like a let up compared to this.

[Alderc 2.0]

1 hour ago, SLAMMER said:

 

gloom isn't great but at least we've had a dry spell which is much needed and i'd much rather a few people moaning about a bit of grey than more floods and damage which even moderate rainfall would have caused.  Thank heaven for a nice dry spell, at last!

 

Oh absolutely, but this is like a death of a thousand cuts, it’s slowly but surely starting to get to everyone….

[In Absence of True Seasons]

 Mizzle  Mizzle Bit of both. This spell of gloominess is quite prevalent indeed, but it also comes off the back of a rather uninspiring year in general, so I imagine most people's tolerances - yourself included - to these sort of conditions, are already much lower than they otherwise would be. 2024 has been very dull, and up until mid summer, very, very wet. Moreover, the conditions seem to have been in 'blocks', aka prolonged periods of dull and / or wet weather, interspersed with shorter spells of sunnier and drier weather (which IMO is more difficult to tolerate than a 'mixed bag' of, say, a sunny day, then a sunny+cloudy day, then a rainy overcast day, and then a sunny day again, and so on).

Let's also not forget that 2023 was a poor year for all intents and purposes, from a perspective of A) settled spells of weather, B) proper seasonal weather. It was only really the 3-week period in June, and the September heatwave, that brought something truly different. Up until the June 2024 brought something drier, we were in the wettest 18months+ period ever recorded. 2023-2024 has just been a woeful period for anyone who enjoys variability, seasonality, sun, and dry spells. Likewise for cold weather and snow. 

Silver lining is of course that the current relentless gloom is at least dry. Small mercies, but considering how wet most of 2024 was, and much of 2023, it's a small mercy I'll take.

[laddie]

Ok it's been extra dull this year but in my experience it's more often than not, misty, still, foggy and gloomy with patches of drizzle around Guy Fawkes night it probably feels more depressing this time due to the dire preceding year 

[knocker]

In full swing over in the mod. thread

[Weatherman_93]

 In Absence of True Seasons Haha how quick that changed. Barely seen the sun since i posted that! 

[Methuselah]

I think the upcoming Easterly, with cold drizzle, might have gone AWOL. We can only hope! 

[MP-R]

 TwisterGirl81 don’t be saying things like that or you’ll get mobbed by the thought police

But yeah, we can only hope that this year is trying to get as much clag out of the way and we take off next year. I’m hoping for a 2002 to 2003 switch around.

[SussexSnowman]

Cloud and more cloud. Today has a slight chill in the air. I'd take this over a soggy day. 

App is showing 3 days from Tuesday onwards as clear sunny skies!  I expect cloud to take it's place in the prevailing days. The weather this year has certainly had a give with one hand and take with the other feel to it. 

[dubmuffin]

Anyone else get a brief period of brightness yesterday? I was lucky to see it! This constant 50% tint of grey is depressing - makes me feel lethargic and quite unfocussed such a shame we haven't got a bit more sunshine to make the most of the last of the Autumn colours

[Atmogenic]

 dubmuffin down here we did and it was nice, i just wish it was like that instead of cloud

[IslaArklayblend]

Sorry to add, but the air quality is down in England, too, today (as it is with some of us "north of the border").

Be interesting to see whether these Davis Air Quality sensors are clever enough to show what Bonfire Night does everywhere.

Please refer to the Scottish daily weather thread to see the Air Quality stuff.

[Mapantz]

Yep. Air quality hete has slowly been getting worse over the last few days

Wareham Weather - Air Quality

WAREHAMWX.CO.UK

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PM1, PM2.5 and PM10 Air quality monitoring in Wareham

Someone has lit a bonfire in the garden adjacent to me. Zero wind, so the smoke is hanging around.

Edited November 5, 2024 by Mapantz

[dubmuffin]

One thing that does make this period bearable is the smell of bonfires - very evocative!

[SunChaserWales]

If November carries on like this it'll be the third month in the past year to be exceptionally, notably, historically dull, after December and February. Meanwhile the wait for a month that's a good bit sunnier than average has extended to 17 months.

Mind you I don't think much can be worse than last December. 17.7 hours(!) here

Edited November 5, 2024 by SunChaserWales

[Alderc 2.0]

2 hours ago, knocker said:

 

In full swing over in the mod. thread

 

lol not sure why? If they looong for cold and snow it’s like disappointed the models aren’t showing 30C in the first few days of April.

[reef]

What a thoroughly depressing spell of weather this is. If it hadn't been for the blind luck of being in a gap on Friday it would have been 7 consecutive days of the same weather with zero sunshine. What's more, its not even as warm as it was forecast to be.  The forecast has said 13-15C for every day and we've struggled to 12 or 13C at most. Even now it's 10.7C.

2024 has to go down as the worst year for weather of any kind. No settled, sunny spell in Spring or summer, no snow at all, no thunderstorms. Not a sausage.

[Summer18]

2024 has been rotten for the outset, probably my least favourite year weather wise. I think this is day 8 of the miserable drizzly, overcast spell but I’ve actually last count. 

Edited November 5, 2024 by Summer18

[*Stormforce~beka*]

[Mizzle]

 In Absence of True Seasons well I feel somewhat relieved that it wasn't purely in my imagination that 2023/24 has been woeful in terms of seasons: thanks for your response.

The (relatively) dry does make gardening more enjoyable, only the mild weather means my roses and many other plants are still flowering so I can't even cut them back and tidy for the winter. But then, odds are, we won't get a winter anyway!