Weather

The espalier pears on my balcony are, sadly, already flowering in all this wind and rain so I'm guessing that we'll have no fruit this year.

Cold, windy and drizzly where I am in Northants.
With a bit of luck I'll be able to get out on the garden this week-end. Mild,dry and sunny forecast.

Bluesmum

I don’t wish to gloat, but I landed in Perth from the uk,on 9th February and the sun has shone everyday since! Everywhere is very parched and we are desperate for rain but I hope it has stopped raining in the uk when I get home early next month! I love the sunshine!

Cold and wet here in the north east of Scotland but I wouldn’t swop places with you Bluesmum. The heat and brightness affects me negatively, we’re all different!

Here in N Yorkshire it's wet and cold. Went walking yesterday and got soaked. The weather app said 'feels like 1 degree'. At least I was able to wash the mud off my boots in all the puddles.

In rural Staffordshire/Shropshire border it feels like it’s been raining and windy forever. We get a glimpse of blue sky and sunshine then it changes again. We still have the heating on all day set at 19degs which is more economical than on and off at set times and we’re still lighting the log burner in the evenings.
Check out weather manipulation/geo-engineering. This isn’t normal. Look at the beautiful summer we had in lockdown.

Chucking it down in Yorkshire this afternoon and feels cold even though it says 8c.

All the rain and damp plays havoc with my chest.

Oh I have to disagree with that meddijess. I think that nowadays the forecasts are pretty accurate down to the hour that it will rain harder!

Bristol/Bath area. Lots of sun in March, so the house is very warm, but hat, scarf and gloves needed the minute you step outside. Consider myself very lucky as no local flooding.

Well, it is not hot here in the south of Denmark either, nor has it been at any time during March. Rain, rain, rain, more rain and gale force winds and so cold, although admittedly it hasn't snowed, as it can do in April, nor has the temperature been below freezing since the start of March.

I think the Met Office makes the forecasts etc up - I'm sure they just have lumps of seaweed hanging out of their windows. We always expect the opposite of what they say!

Yep - this Spring has exactly matched the 'temperate maritime' climate pattern we were taught in school in the early 60's.

Joseann

All our reservoirs in the Southwest are now 100% full. We'll there's a thing!

There'll be a hosepipe ban by August!

i have my CH set to maintain a temperature of 18 degrees night and day. It hasn't been needed recently but this morning I woke up to hear the boiler working to heat up the radiators. I live in Berkshire.

Cold, wet and very windy here. Yuk. but going up to 23 at the weekend! Sat outside drawing and eating last week in hot sun. Crazy and worrying. The local large lake has seriously low water level. Musn't grumble.

Still wearing my thermals here in the North East. The River Tyne is threatening to burst its banks. Brrrrrrrr.

All our reservoirs in the Southwest are now 100% full. We'll there's a thing!

I don’t wish to gloat, but I landed in Perth from the uk,on 9th February and the sun has shone everyday since! Everywhere is very parched and we are desperate for rain but I hope it has stopped raining in the uk when I get home early next month! I love the sunshine!

A priest in Wexford, Ireland, held a mass yesterday for better weather, here’s hoping.

Another joyous day of wind, dark clouds and rain, filthy muddy spaniel, how much bloody longer is this going on for?

The weather always has a habit of balancing out though doesn’t it?
Up and down the country we’ve all had a lot of rain over the past months, but I’m sure we will get a prolonged dry, sunny spell at some point, when no doubt we will all be wishing for rain for our poor parched gardens!

Just had to cancel an appointment at the vets because we’re surrounded by floods. The trains going up to Edinburgh are crawling along.

It’s a day of torrential rain here in Durham. My little country road has deep areas of water being washed down from the fields. The same situation atound Newcastle where the Tyne is in danger of flooding. DD2’s nursery has emailed parents to collect their little ones, if possible, as parts of the building are flooded.
Plus, it’s getting very windy now.

nanna8

Weather here has been one of the coolest this year. A few very hot days but average very low temps. Only been in the pool 3 or 4 times, too cold. Don’t be fooled by the stuff they tell you - there are vested interests at play. We used to have weeks and weeks of unrelenting heat back in the 1970s and 1980s plus a 10 year drought. But the ‘experts’ disagree. They will tell you it is just an anomaly, just where you happen to live. I think they are telling porkies.

It's been 'stinking hot' up North, though, and very, very wet.

We knew it would happen, though.

All those prophecies of Mediterranean summers which would come with climate change were pie in the sky.

Wetter and stormier is more likely..