Autumn 2024 Moans, ramps and banter

[summer blizzard]

 I remember Atlantic 252

Felt lovely but it actually didn’t snow much outside Scotland and the south west.

[Atleastitwillbemild]

 In Absence of True Seasons  Heat lover  I have found exactly the same thing with weather forecasts, BBC weather in particular. I have to laugh when I see any sun symbol now. I can literally turn it into a cloud symbol just by refreshing the page. 

[Atleastitwillbemild]

 *Stormforce~beka*  I am so desperate for that I am considering taking off to gran canaria in my week off in December. I would normally go on a snow hunt this time of year but I think sunlight deprivation has become an emergency now. That would sound like peak snowflake drama to anyone who didn't have mental health issues but 2024 has really been atrocious for low sunlight and playing havoc with serotonin levels. It does seem like our weather has become possessed by something malevolent and evil the past two years. I've never experienced so much aggressively persistent gloom. 

[Alderc 2.0]

Absolutely chucking it down this morning. Very heavy drizzle and again nothing on radar.

[Sceptical]

First time I've had to scrape the windscreen for weeks. 0c with clear sky's, temperature should hit 13c this afternoon. Sunshine all day according to the Met.

 

Edited November 6 by Sceptical

[Snow Tyre]

This sullen, unyielding weather is having other effects too as it is spread throughout Western Europe. Val D'Isere is one of the highest ski resorts and has reliable snow; by now there's normally a good covering ready to open at the end of November. Here it is today - this is 2771m, or just over 9,000 feet altitude. Taken from https://www.valdisere.com/live/webcams/

 

[sawan]

 Geordiesnow Yes, climate change is bringing everything apart from the cold weather. Here is some evidence from Central England.

And about your comment regarding sunshine levels, we seem to have received around 11% fewer sunshine hours this year (so far 150 hours less compared to LTA). It might be an odd year but it could well become a norm, we should know in the near future.

[Mapantz]

Wet, misty, and grim.

RH is constantly mid 80's to high 90's, nothing is dry. Inside doors have all plimmed  up as well.

[chris888]

got some bright clouds today so i guess that's a bit of an improvement 

[chris888]

 Snow Tyre  that's really bad this high pressure along with the mild air and the cloud all need to pi$$ off and let something colder and more seasonal take over

[TonyH]

 hailcore No snow from the beast from the east here either.

[Ross90]

This must be one of the dullest most boring hp's in recent years. Constantly dull and mild with fairly regular drizzle and hardly any sunshine. Apart from a couple of hours yesterday I've barely seen the sun in the last 2 weeks.

[HarvSlugger]

This is most likely a dumb question but, this high pressure for me has been very drizzly and damp, ground always wet, but would it still like dry the ground out in terms of less likely for future flooding compared to before the high pressure ,or does it actually have to be bone dry for it to have any effect on drying the ground out?

 TonyH I feel you, it was depressing seeing most of the country getting loads and me nothing at all as a huge snow lover 

[richie3846]

 HarvSlugger it's a good question. In the growing season, plants and trees are the main vehicles for drying the ground out, because the sun and wind dries mainly the top layer, while plants suck moisture out of the soil underneath. This time of year, the growing season is over, and dry spells don't make much difference to the moisture in the soil. Even a month without rain this time of year won't dry the soil very much, but what it does do, is allow the previous rains to settle down and percolate into bedrock. This will help create a margin so when the next lot of rain arrives, there will be some capacity to absorb it. Dry winds would help dry the top surface this time of year, but overall it is the growing season that is the main powerhouse for evapotranspiration.

[Frigid]

I keep thinking how glorious this spell could've been if cold, crisp air was trapped under this high. Could've easily been the spell of the year with endless blue skies for weeks. Of course, it's 2024 and that wasn't allowed to happen.

Hopefully December can redeem this wretched year of weather. 

[HarvSlugger]

 richie3846 very interesting! So I'm assuming even after this spell of dry weather, the soil moisture will hardly be different,and the UK will still get flooded easy like a few weeks ago(if we get more rain after)

[Andy Bown]

I count myself very fortunate to have been in that sunny slot last Thursday because that is the only time I have seen the sun in 10 days!

Near constant drizzle on several days since (Saturday, Sunday, yesterday, today) , a few others have felt ‘drier’ though of course cloudy (Friday, Monday) .
 

The odd thing yesterday and today is that the drizzle isn’t falling front and back of my house all the time. Like 5 minutes ago I put the bins out and it’s properly drizzling out the front, however the back garden has just odd spits! 

[Don]

Well, there was 10 minutes this morning when the sun was desperately trying to show it's face.  Didn't quite make it and the gloom soon returned!

Edited November 6 by Don

[In Absence of True Seasons]

 Frigid One can only dream... 

The only decent spell of weather recently was near the start of October, the cold snap that brought sunny skies and dry conditions. 

As always nowadays, mildness outside of Spring-Summer periods nearly always = dull, dreary and (often) wet. Silver-lining is this current period of The Great Gloom of 2024 is at least proving dry, but it's silver-lining that's rather tarnished...

[HarvSlugger]

Start of October was perfect I got -2.5c which is most likely a record low for me that early in the season, and nice cold sunny days

[cheeky_monkey]

nice little warm up for me could be sunny and 16c by Friday 

[SunnyG]

Monday and yesterday were decent enough, but today is really grim. We are also not seeing any of the high temps predicted only last week. Not 17c more like 12c. To be fair, this is 100% November as I expect it to be: grim, dark, awful. On a positive note: we are less than two months away from shorter nights.

[MoonlightShadow]

A lighter feel during the course of the day, that stratus veil is thin today but still no real sunshine...

Annoyingly, I've got an outing on the cards on Sunday and it looks like a band of rain will cross the country...

[HarvSlugger]

Just checked and I've had 0 sun the last 7-8 days and I mean 0 seconds of sun!

[sawan]

The last time we saw the sun was on the 27th of October, 10 days and counting. November record for us is 21.8 hours if sun in 1945. Let's see if we can beat that record