What would be your year from Hell?

[Weather-history]

 I think 1954 is a strong candidate for  the worst year of the 20th century around here.  It had the worst summer of the century according the the Manchester Summer Index followed by an autumn that wasn't too far off autumn 2000 in terms of rainfall.  It rained on 73 consecutive days in Manchester.

 

[baddie]

My alternate bogeyman year, using 2012-2023 and using completely different months

Janaury 2014 - Attrocious, mild and wet. Horrible month

February 2020 - Extremely wet and windy, actually quite interestingly so. At least there was plenty of sunny spells

March 2023 - Disgustingly dull and wet, especially in the second half, coming after the sunniest March on record. The only good thing was the snow at the beginning

April 2012 - Pathetic excuse for an APril after a glorious March, from drought to deluge, and from blue to grey. Did somebody switch March and April together???

May 2013 - Another cold and wet May which felt more like October. This came after a cold spring which was really an extension of winter. The BH weedends were nice though,

June 2016 - Cold North Sea Murk in the first 4 days, but followed by a few days of warm and sunny weather. Sadly, the rest of the month was excessively wet and miserably dull, but at least it was thundery

July 2017 - The first half of the month was nice, with decent thunderstorms, but went downhill after the 18th,  and it did a July 2023 and ruined it. Not terrible, but a dissapointing July

August 2021 - It was dry, but a very dull month, with barely 100 hours of sunshine, and the 3rd dullest on record, and tempertures sturglged to get above 22c all month. It was a drier version of August 2008

September 2022 - Not dreadful, but felt like a letdown compared to the good August and the 4 good Septembers before it. There was still thuderstorms ath the start, and cool, sunny weather mid-month

October 2019 - A wet and dull October, which was the first of 5 crappy months, wihch persisted into March. The last 5 days werent too bad. Struggled to reach 16c all month, which is disappointing

November 2015 - The dullest November on record, and came with constant drizzle and light rain, which made the warm weather completely useless. It looking boring compared to the freakish December

December 2018 - Another mild and drizzly month, which was depressing. It was relentlessly overcast, except for the second week

Edited December 5, 2023 by baddie