Whats the weather like near you?

[Whoppa Choppa]

23 hours ago, Big J said:

 

The winter 19/20 is what broke me actually. It was the final straw, the catalyst for moving to Sweden. At our house in Devon we had 1800mm of rain over 6.5 months with the longest dry spell being 3 days. It was absolutely grim. I'm sorry that it's resembling that again in the UK.

It wasn't great here today either. Very mild (9c) with a couple of hours of drizzle. Feels like winter is on the way out now.

 

Right. I've been looking at photographs from winter 19-20. There are more than expected with brighter skies than I recall. Odd. Now convinced this winter 23-24 has actually been worse. Endless days of very dull, very wet conditions. You'll be glad you're not here! It's really miserable. If you suffer from S.A.D, here* is not the place to be!

[maybelateron]

A couple of weeks ago when we had a lot of winds but not much rain (here anyway) the ground started to dry out quite well. Yesterday I positioned on of my ride on mowers on the lawn where I could work on it (lawn higher than adjacent drive) I was shocked to see how sodden the ground is again. By the time I had finished mauling the out front decl off then back on the ground was really churned up. The conditions are limiting what jobs we can do as we are 95% domestic work and people don't want their lawns ruined by footfall.

[Dan Maynard]

I've got a half done job at a recreation ground since the autumn, it started raining and never dried up. Managed to get in one morning when the ground was frozen late Jan but not had a decent freeze at all, given up for now and said I'll finish later in the year.

[Stere]

According to this its got sunnier in winter  which i find suprising but annual variation is pretty big.

 

UK temperature, rainfall and sunshine time series

WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK

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Time series graphs of climate variables for previous months, seasons and years

 

 

 

Edited February 18, 2024 by Stere

[Will C]

Chin up, just think of all that mud when the snow melts!

[Doug Tait]

Wet morning here, and windy, but turned out nice.

 

[swinny]

Weathers been shite since Xmas. Such a crap start to the year in fairness. Wetter than an otters pocket

[woody paul]

Rain again, I am thinking it would be nice to have a bit of snow just for a change. 

[sime42]

I just want less rain! And more frost.

 

Parts of UK may have had wettest February on record

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Weather data to be released on Friday will also likely show that this winter was less frosty than normal.

 

[sime42]

I know exactly what you mean. We went for what should have been a nice walk last weekend, but it was somewhat spoilt by all the mud everywhere.

 

 

That was meant to be a public footpath.