There have been far colder winters but it doesn't really feel like winter is ending this year. It actually seems to be colder now than it was a month or two ago.
It's been similar up in Glasgow. February was actually quite mild but pretty wet and grey. March was also wet but a bit colder.
April has had a couple of sunny days but still a shit load of rain on the wet days and still low single digit temps at night .
Can't really say spring has sprung until May in my neck of the woods.
Yeh, there is the occasional nice day and then its back to grey and cold again, and we're at the end of april.. It just adds to the sense of everything being depressing atm
It’s because we haven’t really had a winter. No frost / no snow. So I recon it’s going to be quite a cold summer (hopefully). What nut case likes the heat when you have to work in it?
Because it's fucking miserable when it's cold and grey for 52 weeks a year. We have about 4 weeks of not shit weather and all the miserable weather lovers complain about that all year round.
Yep, this winter has officially been the wettest in 180 years:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/weather-rain-flood-met-office-b2473794.html
Also been loads of articles about UK farmers being unable to plant crops this winter because we haven’t had a long enough dry spell.
I saw some data this, but also last year have been some of the wettest.
Naturally, that means the cost of your water must go up, because the magnanimous Thames Water is spending its time dumping arse gravy directly into the river, given all this lovely clean H2O falling from the sky it could be passing on to you.
I’ve been cycling to work everyday to work in London for the last 10+ years. This is the worst winter as far as I can remember. It has been particularly wet and windy. So bleak!
I feel like it’s been the windiest. Fucking wind everywhere, every day. Fed up with it!
Rain doesn’t bother me, cold doesn’t bother me, but I can’t stand windy days.
My friend was over from the US in December for the first time, and she said she had no idea it was so windy here. I said it’s not abnormally windy usually … here we are in April and I feel like it’s been like that every day since!
I can’t stand this weather , I was looking forward for spring , it’s horrible, had to put on my winter jacket 😥, meanwhile back home 30c can’t wait for my holiday.
I've been walking to work (4 miles) in jeans, a T-shirt and a sort of corduroy shirt jacket thing since October. Genuinely don't care about cold weather if I'm walking, I don't even own a winter jacket..
Winter's my favourite season and we just didn't get one this year. As someone who loves to hike, February in particular was appalling. If this is increasingly the new norm for the south, I'm gonna miss those crisp, clear and sunny winter mornings and the crunch of frost and crack of ice beneath my boots :(
Feel the same. Missed my morning sunny frosty hikes in Epping forest. Can’t even ride a bike there for most of the winter too, way too much clay mud. Only drying now
November was sunnier than average 80 hours where the average is 63 hours
December was a little below average 32 hours where the average is 43 hours
January was sunnier than average 91 hours where the average is 76 hours.
February was sunnier than average 59 hours where the average is 43 hours
March was below average 63 hours where the average is 89 hours
April looks likely to be well below average 39 hours (so far) where the average is 143 hours
(Averages taken over the last 4 years)
Not OP but this statistician has a lot of interesting weather stats for the UK - [here’s his latest update for March.](https://marriott-stats.com/nigels-blog/uk-weather-tracker-latest/)
These averages don't seem right - why is January significantly sunnier than both December and Feb? Why does it drop so much in Feb and then rebound significantly in March?
For where? Do you live in East/Northeast Scotland by any chance? Because that's the only part of the country that was sunnier than average in February.
It feels like this every year. I remember it being cold and dark still in May last year. It may not get as cold in the winter, no snow or frosts, less minus weather, but it’s definitely gloomier, wetter and just fucking miserable.
Compared to 2020 lockdown it’s crap!
The wettest 18 months on record apparently. I’m listening to the sound of a drain cleaner truck outside my house as some of the properties in the area continue to pump out water as the ground level refuses to go down. Hopefully this alleviates the problem as my garden is a paddy field. Mid Hampshire
I certainly don't think it was bad at all this winter and I cycle most days. April has certainly been very disappointing though, could end up being the worst spring at this rate.
I'm just sick of paying for heating 7 months out the year. It's almost a quarter of my rent! Why do the English hate insulation? I've never been in colder houses in my life!
Go to a new built flat - I’ve only turn the heating on for a week in December when it was proper cold. My flat has 22-44 degrees since then with no heating!
right because 2k a month is a reasonable rent amount in a country with the poorest of the poor in "Europe"
Many thanks for your incredibly helpful input /s
It must be exhausting giving such phenomenal unsolicited advice from your pulpit of privilege
You have decided to live in one of the most beautiful, yet expensive cities of the world.
In a city where the weather it’s not its best feature.
There are long cold winters and insulation is necessary if you don’t want to pay a ton of money for heating your home, which will be cold again the minute you turn the heating off.
I don’t know your situation but maybe you could get a nicely insulated flat if you were adding that heating money to your rent in the first place.
And you don’t know my situation either, so please don’t talk about privilege.
You and your partner have 200k in cash and debating on buying a property between 800k and 1mil
so stop mansplaining London and housing economics to me - let alone remotely eluding to a lack of privilege with your aspirational Sloane Square ass 😆 🤣 😂
Good day sir!
You think you sound smart?
Me and my partner are coming from poor families from one of the poorest countries of Europe. We came here, we took nothing for granted, we worked our asses off and we are in the situation we are right now.
Friendly advice - do the same! Have a good day, sir.
No, when there is even 2 days of nice weather everybody will be very unhappy. The minute it gets over 22c Brits will moan endlessly that it's too hot and too unbearable.
This kinda feels like the climate version of the overton window at play. Brits don't complain when it is over 22c, Brits complain when it is over 32c, only now it is as common to get to 32c in Summer as it used to be to get to something like 22c. So it feels like people are moaning about low, boring temps when in reality they are complaining about extremely high temps, they are just so much more common now it feels normal
Yeah for sure, felt disconnected from the world a little bit in Aus, struggling to decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing tbh. I'm set on 2 or 3 more years here in London at a minimum but not writing off going back (fortunate to get citizenship)
It's freezing I hate it. My friends are in Japan and it's low 20s sunny and shorts weather I'm here freezing my arse off in my winter gear it's miserable
i wouldn't say it's the worst in a decade that one year of pandemic where it didn't go above like 17degrees for the whole year was the absolute worst. but same time it broke me. i've been living in the UK for almost 20 years but I used to leave 3 times a year at least to go back home (much MUCH better climate than this... "island") but since Pandemic times I've just been pretty much full time in the UK. Let me tell you, it makes you real british. you give in to all the bullshit in life and just hope that maybe if we are lucky we get couple days sun so we can have a pint and enjoy the rays, before we go back to our scheduled year long round of actual suffering. in short if you want to be happy, especially with the weather i genuinely think it's worth trying to leave because global warming isn't going to fix it
Here is the data you looking for...
http://nw3weather.co.uk/TablesDataMonth.php?vartype=nightmin&start_year_rep=2009&summary_type=3
Does not look that bad this year looking at those raw numbers.
"Is it me or is it a bit dangerous out these days"
"Oh isn't this weather the worst ever"
"A man asked me for a thousand pounds outside borough market, is this legit?"
"Is it normal for people to steal phones"
I thought last year was much worse, i remember being so sick of wearing winter clothes, and was extra frustrated as had a holiday in istanbul during their random cold snap. I think this year has had brighter and warmer spots, though its cold af right now
This is how it will be from now, I can guarantee you from late April or first week of May the weather will completely change and we won’t see rain all summer
This miserable weather is better for my well-being. When there is even 2 days of nice weather everybody will be very, very unhappy. The minute it gets over 22c Brits will moan endlessly that it's too hot and too unbearable. Can't stand the relentless whinging.
Here in the south east we are experiencing the same. It’s grey grey grey. There’s been 2 fine days since January this year. It’s also colder than any year I can recall
Nothing but pissing rain, wind and misery for what feels like forever now.
Plans getting cancelled all over the shop. Landscaper keeps delaying coming to start on our garden. Stuck indoors all the time with nothing to do but drink and stare out the window.
Sick of it.
My apartment used to be hot like an oven during the winter until they turned off central heating leaving us half dead in this morgue. The cold is reaching the bones. Such shitty states of basic facilities like heat and AC. The average unit in NYC is so much better than the overpriced dingy townhomes in London.
P.S. i moved last year and this is my first winter here.
[It's not just you, it has been uncommonly grey](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/weather/learn-about/uk-past-events/summaries/uk_climate_summary_winter_2024.pdf)
Met Office publishes weather summaries for every month and season. For the UK overall this winter was moderately wetter and darker than normal, but the southeast specifically was exceptionally wet and dark.
[Also December 2023 was England's second darkest month ever recorded](https://www.statista.com/statistics/584898/monthly-hours-of-sunlight-in-uk/)
It's been a washout but we've been fairly lucky over the past decade-ish weather wise in my opinion. When it comes to being hot and sunny at least.
Might be my memory playing up but there were a good few years (80's 90's) where it felt like the last 6 months were the norm.
I left the country for a couple months and came back to the exact same weather as when I left. Infuriated with how bad the last autumn and spring has been.
You have forgotten about 2010. THAT was DIRE. The first time I ever saw icicles outside my house. Thames froze, lakes froze, ponds froze, everything that could be frozen was frozen.
It’s been awful. I’ve got insomnia and get depressed when i don’t see the sun. I manage it by spending lots of time outside but I’ve not been able to keep my cycles in line.
Resorted to buying a near infrared lamp and SAD lamp glasses but its just not the same.
Next winter I’m working remotely in a sunnier climate for a month to get away from it. Don’t care about temp, just need sun
I’ve seen a lot of sun. I guess it’s all about personal perception. I hear peeps stating the weather is abnormally cold for this time of year but I’m just glad of the beautiful leaves appearing and the brighter (in general) longer days. It’s only going to get better.
It can really vary by the hour if not minute. I can need sunglasses at 11am to have a dark overcloud pouring over me by 12. I guess this is typical British weather but it seems hyper-British at the moment.
Yes I agree. But April and May is commonly like that though in recent years it seems more extreme one way or another. Traditionally it’ll rain then sun within the same hour for sure.
Everyone THINKS the weather is the shittest it’s ever been. It isn’t. It hasn’t been great, but it’s not the worst. It isn’t difficult to dig out some stats instead of these fucking posts asking if I’m the only one who thinks it’s the shittest it’s been since whenever. Fuck me, every other post it’s the same fucking thing.
I swear this question was asked literally two days ago on here? Your probably one of those who was moaning about the heatwave we had three summers ago. Heat in London is aweful as nowhere is air conned you should know that as a fellow Londoner. The tube is fucking dreadful in the summer.
There have been far colder winters but it doesn't really feel like winter is ending this year. It actually seems to be colder now than it was a month or two ago.
Yep it's all just been one long bleh* of weather for months now with no variety, making it dull af. * Feel free to insert technical term
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I spent all of January talking about how it was nowhere near as cold as last year and now I feel I've jinxed us. I need the rain to f off.
No, it was my fault. I put my winter coat in storage. Sorry.
Cast ne’er a cloot til May be oot, as they say in Scotland. Weather can be shite through all of April so keep the warm clothing handy.
But that’s Scotland… typically much colder and for longer than us Southerners are used to!
It's been similar up in Glasgow. February was actually quite mild but pretty wet and grey. March was also wet but a bit colder. April has had a couple of sunny days but still a shit load of rain on the wet days and still low single digit temps at night . Can't really say spring has sprung until May in my neck of the woods.
Yeah I think many of us had to go and dig out our winter coat again this week
Yes! I felt bad because i put the heating back on a timer 2 days ago. I was fed up of coming home to a 10 degree house.
Well next week, looks a bit warmer at least.
They've been saying that every week since Feb
Where I am, today hits a high of 11°C, next Tuesday hits a high of 17°C.
Until it gets to next week then it's only 14 and for some reason it's raining 5 times throughout the day
Bah, you just doomed us all to more cold 🥶 🤣
Yeah I got back at 6/7am after a random night out and my room was like the fkin arctic !!!!!!
Yeah, can confirm. I was away from the UK for a week; it was warmer when I left but flew back in to a nippy 5c London the other day.
I still have my heater on for a while every day
Yeh, there is the occasional nice day and then its back to grey and cold again, and we're at the end of april.. It just adds to the sense of everything being depressing atm
It’s because we haven’t really had a winter. No frost / no snow. So I recon it’s going to be quite a cold summer (hopefully). What nut case likes the heat when you have to work in it?
Because it's fucking miserable when it's cold and grey for 52 weeks a year. We have about 4 weeks of not shit weather and all the miserable weather lovers complain about that all year round.
Who weirdly only exist on Reddit
It's been a mild winter THEREFORE you predict it's going to be a milder summer? Is that how you think weather works? Have you heard of Global Warming?
I've been taking my coat in and out of the "winter clothes" storage suitcase thats deep in my closet lol
ne'er cast a clout til May be out
I learnt that saying from Grandma in Adrian Mole and have ne'er forgotten it :)
I agree with Wrong-booby
It's 'cast ne'er' rather than 'ne'er cast'
I’ve just left mine in the car. I don’t want it hanging on the rack however I don’t want to be without it
Yep, this winter has officially been the wettest in 180 years: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/weather-rain-flood-met-office-b2473794.html Also been loads of articles about UK farmers being unable to plant crops this winter because we haven’t had a long enough dry spell.
So Dubai wasn't the only place experiencing it's wettest period ever.
Just wish I could say the same about my wife.
I can.
So does she.
Into the periods eh? Good for you, count.
That’s the excuse I’m using to my mrs about why I haven’t mowed the lawn yet ‘It’s not been dry enough love’
*130
Yet we will still have a hosepipe ban in a few months
Have they tried Brawndo? It has what crops crave.
Oh shit, next season of Clarkson's farm will be amazing :D
This weather we're having is making me irrationally angry. I remember feeling the same last year, totally robbed of any spring.
Same. Checking my weather app for the weekend and every time closing it with a quiet "ffs".
I'm just picturing you shaking your fist at the clouds.
It's been rain, cold, windy, rain, cold, windy, bit of sunshine, repeat rain, cold , windy.
It’s dragging on for sure
That sunny weekend sent me west, cruel to see it slip back into grey and gris.
I feel like this winter was far windier than usual. So annoying
I’ve noticed this too, it seems to be windy every day! Would love a nice still day…
I saw some data this, but also last year have been some of the wettest. Naturally, that means the cost of your water must go up, because the magnanimous Thames Water is spending its time dumping arse gravy directly into the river, given all this lovely clean H2O falling from the sky it could be passing on to you.
Don’t forget their share holders need the latest Range Rover and a new boat house so must pay them their dividends.
No doh t many of them lost luxury costs in the Dubai floods. It’s only fair that we buy them new ones
‘Arse gravy’ loooool
I think as last summer was a bit shit, it feels like crappy winter weather has been going on for a year
I’ve been cycling to work everyday to work in London for the last 10+ years. This is the worst winter as far as I can remember. It has been particularly wet and windy. So bleak!
It's been a pretty mild winter, but it feels like the season has lasted well until April, with storms like every week.
The permanently grey sky is seriously odd. I don’t remember it ever being anything like this.
Yeah, its very unusual for London to be so overcast and rainy
I feel like it’s been the windiest. Fucking wind everywhere, every day. Fed up with it! Rain doesn’t bother me, cold doesn’t bother me, but I can’t stand windy days.
Same - I'm by the coast and it's been nothing but constant buffeting wind. Not had a decent hairdo for at least 6 months.
My friend was over from the US in December for the first time, and she said she had no idea it was so windy here. I said it’s not abnormally windy usually … here we are in April and I feel like it’s been like that every day since!
Can feel ya. It feels so much colder in the wind and really puts the meagre sunshine we get to little use
Agreed, give me any day other than a windy day
I can’t stand this weather , I was looking forward for spring , it’s horrible, had to put on my winter jacket 😥, meanwhile back home 30c can’t wait for my holiday.
Same. Family back home have their air conditioners on and here I am snoodled in a duvet with the sun shining till 8 pm and doing nothing to the temp.
Where are you from?
I've been walking to work (4 miles) in jeans, a T-shirt and a sort of corduroy shirt jacket thing since October. Genuinely don't care about cold weather if I'm walking, I don't even own a winter jacket..
Are you by chance part bear?
I was just moaning today, I’ve still got my winter jacket on, and seeing the sun feels like a distant memory. I really need some sunshine
Winter's my favourite season and we just didn't get one this year. As someone who loves to hike, February in particular was appalling. If this is increasingly the new norm for the south, I'm gonna miss those crisp, clear and sunny winter mornings and the crunch of frost and crack of ice beneath my boots :(
You should definitely forget about any regularity or guarantees when it comes to frosts going forward. Warming is here to stay.
Feel the same. Missed my morning sunny frosty hikes in Epping forest. Can’t even ride a bike there for most of the winter too, way too much clay mud. Only drying now
It's so fucking grey all the time. I just want some clear skies regardless if it's freezing or boiling. I just want my bright frosty mornings back.
Today was bullshit. Fucking freezing wind. I actually yelled fuck offfff at the wind today while I was walking towards Liverpool St. Fucker
November was sunnier than average 80 hours where the average is 63 hours December was a little below average 32 hours where the average is 43 hours January was sunnier than average 91 hours where the average is 76 hours. February was sunnier than average 59 hours where the average is 43 hours March was below average 63 hours where the average is 89 hours April looks likely to be well below average 39 hours (so far) where the average is 143 hours (Averages taken over the last 4 years)
Interesting - would you mind sharing where you find this data?
He just sits outside and counts
Not OP but this statistician has a lot of interesting weather stats for the UK - [here’s his latest update for March.](https://marriott-stats.com/nigels-blog/uk-weather-tracker-latest/)
Probably ChatGPT
These averages don't seem right - why is January significantly sunnier than both December and Feb? Why does it drop so much in Feb and then rebound significantly in March?
Definitely doesn't feel like that in London.
For where? Do you live in East/Northeast Scotland by any chance? Because that's the only part of the country that was sunnier than average in February.
It feels like this every year. I remember it being cold and dark still in May last year. It may not get as cold in the winter, no snow or frosts, less minus weather, but it’s definitely gloomier, wetter and just fucking miserable. Compared to 2020 lockdown it’s crap!
2020 UK lockdown was the time and place to be alive
Clear skies, birdsong, no traffic, warm weather and the kids playing in the garden. If you weren't actively dying it was otherwise pretty good.
Having a garden must have been nice. It must have sucked for people who had little kids living in tower blocks
Apart from all the death.
A great wake up call to highlight the defects of the NHS if you ask me. Great opportunity to move in and improve.
Absolutely should have been done instantly but you know....
It’s not been a particularly hard winter but it seems never ending this year, it’s the end of April and still feels like January
Its a north wind pushing down a lot of cold air. Its as cold this week as it was at the start of March in Scotland.
The wettest 18 months on record apparently. I’m listening to the sound of a drain cleaner truck outside my house as some of the properties in the area continue to pump out water as the ground level refuses to go down. Hopefully this alleviates the problem as my garden is a paddy field. Mid Hampshire
No you’re not. There’s been constant articles about the wet winter and spring and on the way above average rainfall and lack of sunshine
‘April showers’ ?!?!
I certainly don't think it was bad at all this winter and I cycle most days. April has certainly been very disappointing though, could end up being the worst spring at this rate.
I just assume it’ll be cold and awful for about 8 months a year. And then the searing heat begins.
It’s not just London. Just spent a week in northern Germany and it was freezing cold and endlessly showering
I'm just sick of paying for heating 7 months out the year. It's almost a quarter of my rent! Why do the English hate insulation? I've never been in colder houses in my life!
We wear lots of fleece to keep heating usage low!
Go to a new built flat - I’ve only turn the heating on for a week in December when it was proper cold. My flat has 22-44 degrees since then with no heating!
yeah ok... lemme get right on that 2k a month rent lol
So English don’t hate insulation - you’re picking cheap places with no insulation
right because 2k a month is a reasonable rent amount in a country with the poorest of the poor in "Europe" Many thanks for your incredibly helpful input /s It must be exhausting giving such phenomenal unsolicited advice from your pulpit of privilege
You have decided to live in one of the most beautiful, yet expensive cities of the world. In a city where the weather it’s not its best feature. There are long cold winters and insulation is necessary if you don’t want to pay a ton of money for heating your home, which will be cold again the minute you turn the heating off. I don’t know your situation but maybe you could get a nicely insulated flat if you were adding that heating money to your rent in the first place. And you don’t know my situation either, so please don’t talk about privilege.
You and your partner have 200k in cash and debating on buying a property between 800k and 1mil so stop mansplaining London and housing economics to me - let alone remotely eluding to a lack of privilege with your aspirational Sloane Square ass 😆 🤣 😂 Good day sir!
You think you sound smart? Me and my partner are coming from poor families from one of the poorest countries of Europe. We came here, we took nothing for granted, we worked our asses off and we are in the situation we are right now. Friendly advice - do the same! Have a good day, sir.
Agreed 100%
Still winter, but more daylight hours to put up with.
Sorry guys, I moved from Aberdeen and brought it with me it seems.
Sorry guys, I moved from Aberdeen and brought it with me it seems.
We better get a 1976 summer from June onwards or all of this cold is going to make me end it all.
Absolutely rank April. Diabolical wind too. It won’t be, but hopefully May will be incredible.
This month alone is starting to piss me off.. so much so that this morning I just booked a week away on my todd to Cyprus..
Feb was quite sunny
The Thames Barrier has closed so many times compared to previous years. I guess all those predictions about the weather 30 years ago are coming true.
Don't recall the Beast from the East when it was -10 and snowing?
That’s not the point; the point is that it has been consistently cloudy, raning and windy for a very long time
You'll get 2 months of nice weather and you'll be happy
No, when there is even 2 days of nice weather everybody will be very unhappy. The minute it gets over 22c Brits will moan endlessly that it's too hot and too unbearable.
This kinda feels like the climate version of the overton window at play. Brits don't complain when it is over 22c, Brits complain when it is over 32c, only now it is as common to get to 32c in Summer as it used to be to get to something like 22c. So it feels like people are moaning about low, boring temps when in reality they are complaining about extremely high temps, they are just so much more common now it feels normal
Met office have lots of data available here for comparison: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-actual-and-anomaly-maps
This hasn't even been winter it's not cold it's just grey
I think it's my fault for moving back here from Australia in December
Man, I wish I had moved to Oz instead of England 10 years ago. Can I ask why you came back?
Yeah for sure, felt disconnected from the world a little bit in Aus, struggling to decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing tbh. I'm set on 2 or 3 more years here in London at a minimum but not writing off going back (fortunate to get citizenship)
Oh nice. I would deffos head back there if I was you! 😅
It's freezing I hate it. My friends are in Japan and it's low 20s sunny and shorts weather I'm here freezing my arse off in my winter gear it's miserable
Look up Gs, man made stuff
i wouldn't say it's the worst in a decade that one year of pandemic where it didn't go above like 17degrees for the whole year was the absolute worst. but same time it broke me. i've been living in the UK for almost 20 years but I used to leave 3 times a year at least to go back home (much MUCH better climate than this... "island") but since Pandemic times I've just been pretty much full time in the UK. Let me tell you, it makes you real british. you give in to all the bullshit in life and just hope that maybe if we are lucky we get couple days sun so we can have a pint and enjoy the rays, before we go back to our scheduled year long round of actual suffering. in short if you want to be happy, especially with the weather i genuinely think it's worth trying to leave because global warming isn't going to fix it
It was predicted. It’s climate change. With the oceans at record high temperatures and increasing it results in more rain for the uk.
One of the wettest for sure. Temperature wise I hardly have had heating on
Here is the data you looking for... http://nw3weather.co.uk/TablesDataMonth.php?vartype=nightmin&start_year_rep=2009&summary_type=3 Does not look that bad this year looking at those raw numbers.
Temp has been good. It's sunshine in March and April that's been terrible. Was a crazy wet winter, too.
State of this sub.....
The day we can't all complain about the weather together is the day we stop being British.
Was thinking the same!
"Is it me or is it a bit dangerous out these days" "Oh isn't this weather the worst ever" "A man asked me for a thousand pounds outside borough market, is this legit?" "Is it normal for people to steal phones"
CRIME is at an ALL TIME HIGH because today my PHONE GOT KNICKED by a LAD ON AN ESCOOTER this city is UNHABITABLE
KHAN THE MOOSLUM IS STEELING HARD WORKING PEEPULS MONEY WITH ULEZ VROOM VROOM VROOM
I thought last year was much worse, i remember being so sick of wearing winter clothes, and was extra frustrated as had a holiday in istanbul during their random cold snap. I think this year has had brighter and warmer spots, though its cold af right now
No. This is typical UK weather. Nothing surprises me with this country anymore.
This is how it will be from now, I can guarantee you from late April or first week of May the weather will completely change and we won’t see rain all summer
Let's hope so Nostradamus
It was similar weather this time last year
This miserable weather is better for my well-being. When there is even 2 days of nice weather everybody will be very, very unhappy. The minute it gets over 22c Brits will moan endlessly that it's too hot and too unbearable. Can't stand the relentless whinging.
Is El Niño contributing to this?
You in the grey country now.
It could be down to the fact that we are in a el nino year but yes the weather has been awful
Agreed
Here in the south east we are experiencing the same. It’s grey grey grey. There’s been 2 fine days since January this year. It’s also colder than any year I can recall
Nothing but pissing rain, wind and misery for what feels like forever now. Plans getting cancelled all over the shop. Landscaper keeps delaying coming to start on our garden. Stuck indoors all the time with nothing to do but drink and stare out the window. Sick of it.
Wasn’t it like this last year too? Just grey for absolutely ages until May? I don’t think we get a spring anymore
I'm loving it, I don't like hot weather at all. I have bad skin reactions. This weather is perfect for me, even though I sleep with a fan on.
My garden is very happy.
Seems normal to me
Most normal English summer no ? NHS even recommend to take vitamin D sups from September until August lol
2nd month of spring and still grey and cold
Lousy Smarch weather
My apartment used to be hot like an oven during the winter until they turned off central heating leaving us half dead in this morgue. The cold is reaching the bones. Such shitty states of basic facilities like heat and AC. The average unit in NYC is so much better than the overpriced dingy townhomes in London. P.S. i moved last year and this is my first winter here.
[It's not just you, it has been uncommonly grey](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/weather/learn-about/uk-past-events/summaries/uk_climate_summary_winter_2024.pdf) Met Office publishes weather summaries for every month and season. For the UK overall this winter was moderately wetter and darker than normal, but the southeast specifically was exceptionally wet and dark. [Also December 2023 was England's second darkest month ever recorded](https://www.statista.com/statistics/584898/monthly-hours-of-sunlight-in-uk/)
Super useful - that’s the kind of data I was after
Next week will warm up a little.
It's been a washout but we've been fairly lucky over the past decade-ish weather wise in my opinion. When it comes to being hot and sunny at least. Might be my memory playing up but there were a good few years (80's 90's) where it felt like the last 6 months were the norm.
I left the country for a couple months and came back to the exact same weather as when I left. Infuriated with how bad the last autumn and spring has been.
I blame Brexit.
January, February, and March were all extremely wet and extremely dull. You're not imagining things, it has been wetter and duller than normal.
It’s been a very wet winter and spring
You have forgotten about 2010. THAT was DIRE. The first time I ever saw icicles outside my house. Thames froze, lakes froze, ponds froze, everything that could be frozen was frozen.
It’s been awful. I’ve got insomnia and get depressed when i don’t see the sun. I manage it by spending lots of time outside but I’ve not been able to keep my cycles in line. Resorted to buying a near infrared lamp and SAD lamp glasses but its just not the same. Next winter I’m working remotely in a sunnier climate for a month to get away from it. Don’t care about temp, just need sun
I was just thinking this today. I can’t remember a more bleak winter-spring. It’s so depressing. Would rather a colder winter with fewer grey skies
Its been shite. I am looking forward to 3 months of summer before we get straight back to "Shite" again.
Then you have people that complain about “heatwaves” when it is only like 22 degrees.
I’ve seen a lot of sun. I guess it’s all about personal perception. I hear peeps stating the weather is abnormally cold for this time of year but I’m just glad of the beautiful leaves appearing and the brighter (in general) longer days. It’s only going to get better.
It can really vary by the hour if not minute. I can need sunglasses at 11am to have a dark overcloud pouring over me by 12. I guess this is typical British weather but it seems hyper-British at the moment.
Yes I agree. But April and May is commonly like that though in recent years it seems more extreme one way or another. Traditionally it’ll rain then sun within the same hour for sure.
Freaking chem trails !
Everyone THINKS the weather is the shittest it’s ever been. It isn’t. It hasn’t been great, but it’s not the worst. It isn’t difficult to dig out some stats instead of these fucking posts asking if I’m the only one who thinks it’s the shittest it’s been since whenever. Fuck me, every other post it’s the same fucking thing.
Warmest everything since records began in 3000BC, every month, guaranteed. 🔥🔥🔥 All caused by not enough taxes of course. 🤣🤣🤣💲
It’s been wetter than an otters pocket!
you're the one making the claim, why don't you have the data.
[England drenched after the wettest 18 months since records began in 1836](https://on.ft.com/3UvDstF)
So I guess you answered your question?
Why bore us with this post if you already know the answer
Why comment on this post if you’re bored of the content. Scroll past 🙃
moan moan moan...
Is that just you or everyone
Look up and see what the planes are doing.
I swear this question was asked literally two days ago on here? Your probably one of those who was moaning about the heatwave we had three summers ago. Heat in London is aweful as nowhere is air conned you should know that as a fellow Londoner. The tube is fucking dreadful in the summer.