The Great British Weather

So glad I I replaced blown away my fence with hazel hurdles then planted honeysuckle and ivy into it. That beast of a hedge isn’t going anywhere.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-68119951

A new UK record high temperature has been set in the Scottish Highlands, according to provisional figures from the Met Office.

It recorded a peak of 19.6C (67.3F) at Kinlochewe on Sunday, making it hotter than Rome and the Cote d'Azur.

If confirmed it would be the highest January temperature in the UK, breaking a record set in 2003 by more than a full degree celsius.

Seriously, when is it going to stop raining? It's starting to feel like we're in Watchmen.

It has been wet this last year,
but,
give thanks you don't live in the north or south west:

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Yes. That would be properly shit.

I used to live in Cardiff and that was rainy af. God knows what it's been like living there now.

I do live in the southwest and I can say without exaggeration that since October we have only had two days where it hasn’t rained at some point or other during the daylight hours.
It’s easy to be a doom-monger when you have to endure that but we did have a very long, dry spell around May-June.
But then again, doom to your hearts content cos nice as that sounds it’s also a weird weather occurrence.

Looking forward to the drought in a few month.

and the hose pipe bans

I have been thinking this too the last few days.

would be interesting to see the sunshine hours for the first few months of the year
i can only remember seeing the sunshine a couple of times this year
miserable

Have you tried going outside more?

outside of the uk ?

Just outside, there’s been a few moments of sunshine this year.

i can only remember seeing the sunshine a couple of times this year

I do not miss this.

Anyone in the southeast of England who thinks it rains a lot has some serious confirmation bias issues.

I'm further West Wales. I'm convinced that last summer was a complete write off other than a couple weeks in June? It's been raining pretty much since October 2022.

Lovely today!

Moved to Bristol from London last summer. The amount of rain here has been on another level.

with the clocks going back soon, we should start getting an extra hour of sunshine per day ... fingers crossed

Sunday 31st March does give the chance of at least an hour less rain.

a hour fewer

I don't think you understand how daylight saving works.

I know, right. You get to save some daylight to use on the shittier days.

.>>>>>>>solar charging thread

Yes, I recently found some old daylight in a book I hadn't read for many years.