Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

[iand61]

 Jan  you want to live up here, jumper and jacket can be essential wear in any month of the year

as for todays weather, the rain arrived on time and certainly didn’t hold back once it started with it turning into a miserable and thoroughly wet afternoon.

still not cleared through yet and I’m expecting the usual damp conditions to still be hanging around in the morning.

at least it’ll keep the frost away though.

[Rain Lady]

 Jan Still wearing at least 3 or 4 layers all over even indoors.    Michelin Man style.   So dark and wet and horrible I gave up the outdoors and had a snooze, hoping sun would be out again by tea time.   Not a glimpse anywhere.

[damianslaw]

A dismal day in the end, the rain was moderate to heavy for a number of hours. Cleared now, but we have low cloud cover and its quite gloomy.

Shap has had its wettest April on record so far, and we have only another 12 days to go.

April 24 will be remembered unfondly despite the warmth up until Sunday all its done is added fuel to any precipitation, we are now in a much cooler and settled spell, but any lengthy dry period looks on thin ice. 

Edited April 18 by damianslaw

[WillinGlossop]

 Had Worse taking big coat to London tomorrow.. only meant to be 14/15c… cold

[cheshire snow]

Yuk Yuk and more Yuk what a depressing outlook more rain and low temperatures.

[Weather-history]

From April 1980

[iand61]

 Weather-history from memory the summer that followed wasn’t anything special though.

I certainly remember a lot of local cricket matches being effected by rain with a few games being abandoned without a ball being bowled.

[Weather-history]

Wet.......again!  

[Rush2019]

 Weather-history   Interesting to read "so far this month 152.9 hours of sunshine."  Depressing to see just 44.4 hours of sunshine recorded so far at Rostherne. Yesterday was their Coldest temp so far for April.

Edited April 19 by Rush2019
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[Rush2019]

8.4 °C  7am.  Quite windy here making it feel  much colder, and it's raining, needed big coat on just to feed the birds.

Edited April 19 by Rush2019

[Scuba steve]

Again a depressing start to the day ,post rain dampness

[tricol]

This high pressure then.....

It's all a cruel joke. Raining here, cold, miserable. I didn't think 2024 could be worse than 2023 but so far it's shaping up to be.

[Weather-history]

Just 2 days this year so far where the rainfall total for our region was 0.00mm

Last occasion we had 2 consecutive days of recording 0.00mm was 4th and 5th September last year. 

[northwestsnow]

It's raining .

I suppose we should be thankful for the odd dry day .

I'm in my 50s and I've never seen anything like the last 6 months or so..

[Had Worse]

Its actually stopped raining 🌧. 

Edit... the suns coming out.

[Chris.R]

Sun's been out for ages here. Been dry for ages as well but there's obviously been some rain today as I've recorded 0.4 mm but I'm not sure when it was.

Edited April 19 by Chris.R

[Chris.R]

BTW 127.7 mm for the month (that's gone up a lot since I last checked), 401 mm for the year!

[Rain Lady]

12.5mm picked up this morn for previous 24hrs.

April so far 131.7mm.  Year so far 683.1 mm.

Record wet April  measured here was 181.9mm in 1970. but that followed a very dry March and then we had a dry May and June.

Jolly bleak unless sun pops out.

Very glad I made a batch of Xmas puds just before Easter.  Still 2 left.  

[A Face like Thunder]

Depressingly wet last night when Mrs FLT and I had to go out. Very damp this morning but signs of it drying and brightening up, with glimpses of blue sky and a gusty wind. Hopefully it will be dry for the weekend.

[damianslaw]

We are eating deep into what is typically the Lake District 'drier season', its going to need a 2018 to redeem itself, but no signal for any substantive dry spell, though we are seeing much drier synoptics, heights look set to position themselves too far to the west, and we remain at the mercy of the euro trough.

Whilst not unprecedented, it would be extremely exceptional to see the wet theme hold through to June. We shall see. 1998 is a good comparison year, we did manage a long dry warm spell in May at least, the less said about the summer the better though. 

Edited April 19 by damianslaw

[Weather-history]

Seems to be a feature of the week, an arc of precipitation coming through some part of the region. 

[A Face like Thunder]

Turned into a quite passable afternoon, dry and bright and no precipitation ... so far.

[iand61]

No surprise that in a period where a dry spell is measured in hours, a dry sunny morning was spoilt by an afternoon of alternating brightness and heavy showers.

even the dry days have ended up being wet and after several days of northerly’s which would usually give nothing but gin clear skies this far inland, we have ended up with deluge after deluge.

I’m not going down the road of who is to blame for climate change and whether it’s even man made but if this is what global warming is going to give us then I need to find my receipt and see if I have been miss sold something.

anyway I just about managed to cut a length of skirting board outside between showers so it could be worse.

[Rain Lady]

Flying spits and warm sun today,  Now a streamer from the NNW with heavy pulses of proper rain is here and ended outdoor work 

[Chris.R]

A light shower in the middle of the day giving 0.1 mm otherwise dry with sunny intervals