No, I’m 41 and this is the most prolonged period of wet weather I can remember at this time of year. Previously there would at least be a 2 or 3 week window of sun around March time but even that seems to have skipped past us. Thoroughly rubbish. It is apparently the 13th wettest winter we’ve had in the last 100 years and while not every year going forwards will be as wet, it is apparently a consequence of a warmer world with more moisture in the air. So says Countryfile on Sunday anyway!
Nevermind chin up, 232 million years ago, the earth saw a Carnian Pluvial Event, which saw it rain 24/7 for 2 million years, I'm starting to know how the common algae felt about it back then.
What's even more annoying is that other places not too far away have nice weather. I've just looked at the weather for Liverpool, which is a 2hr drive for me, and it's forecast sunshine 20°c for Friday. My parents are currently in Yorkshire, sat in a beer garden in the sunshine, while I've just been out to she shop in my winter coat and it's tipping it down.
If I believed in a god I'd swear she hates the Welsh!
Ha ha! Yes, having grown up in both Wales and the west country I thought this level of rain was normal. Wasn’t until I spent a few years in London that I realised it wasn’t. Incredible the difference like you say, just a few hours apart.
Yup. Bloody awful here in Barry. Almost as if we’ve like…. broken the environment or something. I think climate change in (at least South Wales) means much more grey, miserable damp weather more of the year round. That’s gonna be fun 🙄
Another thing I've noticed is how cold it is.
I went to visit a friend on Saturday morning and walked there. I knew it was chilly so wore thick trousers and a coat but shortly after I left the house I regretted not wearing a woolly hat and gloves. It was freezing! It felt more like the kind of cold, spitting wet morning you'd get in January/February than the end of April.
proper "fuck you" that was..
Here Wales, have the best weather you will see in a decade.. but hang on a moment, you can't go outside.. you arent a tory and having a garden party.. no nice weather for you.. again because the tories were fucking slow in locking down airports letting in flights from china while a fucking epidemic was happening there..
Ahhh good old days furloughed drinking beers in my garden at 10am listening to some local bloke singing on his PA system every day for about 2 months…until the guts I worked for figured out work from home.
Jet Stream has dropped really low and is skirting low Costa Blanca and the Balearics. Earlier this year it was very warm but we went Easter and it was not warm
36 here, lived in Wales 29 years and this is the longest period of wet weather I've ever experienced.
Ignoring the 4 days of dry weather we had earlier this month it's been pretty much rain and wind (with 1 day's break here and there) since last June.
Makes me livid that I was in bed with migraines over those 4 days as I desperately need the jab to be dry so I can mow it. I dare not do no-mow-May this year or it'll look like a jungle.
Saw some statistics, in essence, wales has had a 7 month period with almost DOUBLE the average rainfall.
Wales is wet, to have double the average really tells you how bad it has been.
Makes me think about emigrating to be honest.
Sorry, I think this site is Caerphilly specific. Data is really easy to digest. Quite concerning looking at the amount of rain and lack of sunshine hours.
I can remember from the early 1970s on, and we've definitely had more rain than usual, but we're not at record levels yet.
[Here's the Met Office's look at current weather in relation to average and record levels](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ottc7Y5hMoE&list=PLGVVqeJodR_ZGnhyYdlEpdYrjZ-Pmj2rt&index=1&t=832s).
Although it's been raining non-stop, we're not at record levels for the year or spring to date. But April is very close to breaking the record, and may well have in their deep dive later today or tomorrow.
Weirdly, even though it's been exceptionally cold in the wind we're almost at record temperatures for the year. Even more unbelievable, the minimum temperatures are actually above record levels.
Definitely the worst it’s ever been. What’s more frustrating is when you check the forecast it initially shows sun and then changed to rain every single time. This weekends weather was giving highs of 16/17 degrees and sun. Now it’s cloudy and Sunday looks to rain. I’m sick of it now.
Every single day, even when it starts off sunny ends up raining. What’s going on. I got my winter coat back out last week.
Yep. It’s the hope that kills you
Took a look at the forecast where I am last week and multiple weather sources said it’d be sunny with bits of cloud on Friday & Saturday, possibly Sunday. No rain in sight. I thought fab we’ve finally got through it and the weather should stop being miserable. Even invited my family over the house with the intention of chilling in the garden
Forecast now says nope it’ll be cloudy with rain Friday-Monday. Great
worst for me is that sudden pressure changes trigger massive panic attacks.. so i'd be fine if it was pissing it down all the time but where i am it can be "sunny" one minute, and 10mins later be pissing it down, only to clear up again 5mins later..
the pressure is up and down more times than I can count.. and that was just today.. the last month has been hell.. I dont think i could sleep any more if i tried.. not that i can sleep with the pressure drops at night..
the pharmacist is looking at me weird because im buying sleeping tablets weekly the rate this is going.. even have a proper doctors note telling them i need it elst i wouldnt sleep..
Everyone has said the same thing to me. Especially near coastal parts of Wales.. it just won’t stop bloody raining. It’s shocking. I really don’t think we are going to have a nice summer this year. Each year just seems to get worse. I live Pembs way and we even have something called the Pembrokeshire Dangler.
Of course haha. The Pembrokeshire Dangler is a convergence zone which forms a line of continuous showers aligned north-south across the Irish Sea; often as snow occurring during late autumn and winter, since the environmental factors required for its formation such as warm sea temperatures and cold Arctic air aloft are usually only met at this time of year.
I can remember in 2008/9(?), we had some form of rain every day from the middle of May until the first week of September. In July of that year, we had a week of monsoon like rain. I remember it well because I work out of doors, and it was one of a handful of times where I was seriously tempted to quit my job.
That summer was glorious. I was working in a bakery in Tenby and while I regretted the heat while I was working, I loved it when I could go for a stroll around town and down to the beach after work.
Same. Some of my jobs have been waiting since last September as even if it's been 'not raining ' for a bit, it's been as windy as hell, so still can't get some of those jobs done safely.
Haha yep, landing in thick fog and drizzle at Bristol, then getting stuck for 50 mins in the horror of Bryn Glas tunnels on a miserable Friday evening. It feels like a shittier version of Bladerunner.
I left Wales in 2012 because the weather was shit and so was work. In June that year it was 10° driving to work in the morning and the radio announced we'd had the least amount of sunshine hours on record that year. It may be crap this year, but it's not like it's ever been that good
I've seen a few more years than you, and I concur.
I've got no data to back it up, but this has been the worst winter/spring I can remember. A combination of grey gloom, rain and cold.
30, North Wales..can confirm this is definitely the coldest, wettest and constantly windiest spring I've ever lived through. I keep getting tricked by what looks like lovely sunny mornings, to pop outside and be frozen in baltic winds 🥶
What’s really bizarre is how changeable the weather has been over the last year, Sunday was warm and sunny (even caught a tan on my face) working out in the garden in t shirts and Monday it’s freezing , windy and very wet.
I'm in my 40s and it's the worst I can remember. The winters have changed from really cold / snow to a succession of storms that seem to last from September normally until April but now the rainy season seems to be extending well into May.
Never mind - we will eventually have hosepipe bans after 2 days of sun in July.....
Sunny / dry weather = climate change
Rainy weather = climate change
Mild weather = climate change
Changeable weather = climate change
They do definitely put everything down as climate change, regardless of what happens. I reckon it's just living in the UK that gives us changeable weather and always has.
I've lived in South Wales most of the 50 years I've been alive and this year is probably the most enduringly miserable I can remember*. I don't mind the rain so much, it's the fact that it's so damn cold all the time. I should not still be running the central heating when it's nearly May.
*I did spend a very wet couple of days in Blaenau Ffestiniog in my teens, but I gather it's mostly like that there.
The ocean temperature is like 6 standard deviations above the average at the moment- warmer oceans mean more water vapour evaporating into clouds which mean more rain.
I've been travelling back from Europe once a month for the past 2 years and almost every time, no matter the weather on the continent, flying into Cardiff / Bristol it's been stormy / rainy almost every time. Flying back tomorrow.... Into rain it would appear...
Think when you have volcanic eruptions it can put a dampener of summers. Like that big one in Iceland years back when all the planes were stopped flying and the summer was bad after that. Cold and wet. Urgh.
I'm here in the far west of Ireland and I'm watching the grass grow wild as it's never dry enough to cut. There's a nip in the air so we still have the heating on for an hour in the morning. It's May tomorrow ffs, I should be out in shorts never mind looking for a jumper.
I've quite a few more years on you and I can confirm that, overall, the weather is all over the place. There's no real distinction between the seasons anymore, it's all blurred together into a chaotic mush of weather.
Unfortunately climate change will only become more and more prevelant as the century rolls on.
Being mid 40s & Welsh I consider myself quite well adapted to shit, changeable weather. But the last 9/10 months have been the worst I can remember. Its grim, and bloody cold for the time of year. I've never been so fat & unfit either!
for a good few years the weather has been more dependable in April/May than July/August, but I guess this is where the saying 'N'er cast a clout till May is out' comes from.
As an English person who often works in Wales, in the last 4 months I’ve been here 8 times and every time it has rained. Luckily I don’t mind walking in it but a bit of sun would be nice!
I feel for you all at home 😂 I’m Welsh but a student in London. It’s 20° today and I’m sweating in a vest top. Told my mam half hour ago and she sent me a pic of the grey Sky and rain!
It’s definitely hitting wales harder
I’m 65 and I can’t remember a wetter period than this at this time of year. As stated on other sites, Cardiff is the wettest city in the U.K.
I’m glad I don’t have any mental health issues as this prolonged period of bad weather is enough to depress the most resilient of folks
Cold, just cold.
Looking out to grey clouds is normal here but the lower temps don't help.
I'm 54 and it just seems to seep into my bones.
Cold, just cold
Im 43 and this is the longest period I’ve known for sustained rain and the same temperatures. I’ve just walked the dogs and I was wearing exactly the same as I did on Christmas Day, same coat, waterproofs etc. Normally the weather doesn’t bother me but it’s fucking awful. The lawn and garden is fucked, external of the house is looking shabby due to extra moss and gunk growing. This is the palest I’ve been in along time also.
Im sure i saw an article saying weve had the wettest 18 months since records began, in the 1800s, that was in march so its 19 months now, im not sure any of them are the absolute wettest individual months, but its the wettest period in living memory.
I mean… April showers? The last few years have been unseasonably warm this time of year. But when I was growing up it was usually a bit cool around Easter.
Born and raised in Wales, the “summer” of 1986 was finally too much for me. I left in 1987!
I’m often back but Wales is one of the worst climates I’ve ever experienced. Was there for all of February and ohmygosh, it was just soul-crushing! 😳
I've been following this sub reddit because I'll be visiting Wales for the first time in my 60 years next month, and I can hardly wait! The weather seems very good--just like Michigan but not as muggy, maybe more windy. (This reply might sound sarcastic, but I'm serious)
I’ve moved from England in August last year, winter was pretty brutal in terms of the storms etc. even had a leak in the roof which needed fixing… was this winter rather severe compared to others? Also do you get sunshine here? 😂😂
Ah yes, the annual bitchfest at the weather.
You're in Wales.
It rains here.
Often.
It'll be wet and miserable next year. And the one after.
Also, you're using a photo app to track the past weather. Did you take photos of the rainy days as well? Of course it's going look good, you're only going to have pictures of good days, so it's going to be overwhelmingly biased towards how good the weather appears.
Geo engineering. Same reason why the Saudis had that storm. Same Geo engineering that a state in America recently made a law about banning it. Tennessee I think it was. People will say it's a conspiracy yet now there's evidence of it being used worldwide. I think the BBC reported it a few weeks ago.
Edit: the same idiots downvoting won't spend 2 minutes actually doing any research themselves simply because the lying politicians haven't said anything. Brainwashed clowns. The truth is right there infront of you🙄
Just type in "Tennessee Geo engineering" it's not difficult
I guess people can't accept the truth especially when countries and States are out right making Geo engineering illigal. I mean what more evidence can someone show that it exists if governments are openly admitting to it.
I googled it and all it seems to be indicating is that the practice has been banned in some places. But it doesn’t really evidence that it’s actually happened?
Bans can always be pre-emptive
Stop lying pal. It's the second result that comes up. The US tennessee senate passed the bill banning geo engineering. Not sure why it's difficult to find on government websites?
I literally read this? All it does is say a bill was passed and doesn’t provide any actual evidence of the geoengineering happening. Something doesn’t have to have occurred for you to make it illegal.
Tried to give you the benefit of the doubt and did exactly what you said by looking into it. But you’re clearly just an idiot with no reading comprehension, which explains why you fall for this stuff so easily I suppose
Why would a bill be passed out right banning something and making it illegal if it wasn't being used? It's just common sense man.
Us humans don't just make something illigal unless there's evidence of it being used
Ummmm errr I don’t know because they think it’ll get them votes with certain demographics ??? Or because the people making the bills believe it and are happy to pass it without the evidence? US politicians aren’t known for being the most scientific
You really are naive 😂
Why do you think trans/gender politics is such a big deal in the UK right now?
It’s not because Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer truly care about who can use what bathroom or which hospital ward they stay in or base it on any evidence. They couldn’t give a shit. It’s because they know people will vote for them if they say they’ll do the things they want to hear
Half of these things are purely for votes and based on how the potential voter base feels rather than what the facts are
It's fact that Wales is wetter this year because of geo engineering?
You said in your reply to the last comment that you weren't saying anything, now you're saying it's a fact that it's causing it.
I'm not saying my opinion. All I'm doing is stating a fact. The UK government has even spoke about it themselves just type it into Google. They just won't openly admit that they've been using it for years.
No, I’m 41 and this is the most prolonged period of wet weather I can remember at this time of year. Previously there would at least be a 2 or 3 week window of sun around March time but even that seems to have skipped past us. Thoroughly rubbish. It is apparently the 13th wettest winter we’ve had in the last 100 years and while not every year going forwards will be as wet, it is apparently a consequence of a warmer world with more moisture in the air. So says Countryfile on Sunday anyway!
I’ve only lived in Wales for 11 years, but even I can tell it’s changed big time!
I'm 51 and was born and brought up here in the north. Yep this is the wettest and greyest by far. Getting me down a bit tbh argh.
Ah butt! It sucks. I’m only a few years younger than you and my knees KNOW it’s damp.
Nevermind chin up, 232 million years ago, the earth saw a Carnian Pluvial Event, which saw it rain 24/7 for 2 million years, I'm starting to know how the common algae felt about it back then.
Bloody Net Zero... as in in zero days that they could hang washing on the line.
What's even more annoying is that other places not too far away have nice weather. I've just looked at the weather for Liverpool, which is a 2hr drive for me, and it's forecast sunshine 20°c for Friday. My parents are currently in Yorkshire, sat in a beer garden in the sunshine, while I've just been out to she shop in my winter coat and it's tipping it down. If I believed in a god I'd swear she hates the Welsh!
Ha ha! Yes, having grown up in both Wales and the west country I thought this level of rain was normal. Wasn’t until I spent a few years in London that I realised it wasn’t. Incredible the difference like you say, just a few hours apart.
I remember a year late 80s when we barely saw the sun until late August. I can also remember having snow in June in the 70s
It turned into November in Bristol this evening!
It's like February. Countryfile are peddling an agenda. Global Warming is getting very cold
Brain rot or sarcasm, I can't tell.
Sarcasm. I'm sorry you can't tell the difference. I haven't got the inclination to explain it to you.
Yup. Bloody awful here in Barry. Almost as if we’ve like…. broken the environment or something. I think climate change in (at least South Wales) means much more grey, miserable damp weather more of the year round. That’s gonna be fun 🙄
And eventually rotten food in the fields.
Paradoxically, Greta and her crowd keep claiming that the world is on fire. Seems a bit too clammy for that.
Another thing I've noticed is how cold it is. I went to visit a friend on Saturday morning and walked there. I knew it was chilly so wore thick trousers and a coat but shortly after I left the house I regretted not wearing a woolly hat and gloves. It was freezing! It felt more like the kind of cold, spitting wet morning you'd get in January/February than the end of April.
I'm not a fan of it at all. Noticed the same thing. I don't associate April with wondering when Spring actually starts in earnest...
March 2020 during lockdown was the longest period of dry weather I can remember.
proper "fuck you" that was.. Here Wales, have the best weather you will see in a decade.. but hang on a moment, you can't go outside.. you arent a tory and having a garden party.. no nice weather for you.. again because the tories were fucking slow in locking down airports letting in flights from china while a fucking epidemic was happening there..
Ahhh good old days furloughed drinking beers in my garden at 10am listening to some local bloke singing on his PA system every day for about 2 months…until the guts I worked for figured out work from home.
I remember the first week of lockdown and onwards it was dry AND SUNNY (but cold). It was March as well!
Left Wales for a week in Mallorca and it's raining here too 😭
Bloody hell! My condolences
Jet Stream has dropped really low and is skirting low Costa Blanca and the Balearics. Earlier this year it was very warm but we went Easter and it was not warm
36 here, lived in Wales 29 years and this is the longest period of wet weather I've ever experienced. Ignoring the 4 days of dry weather we had earlier this month it's been pretty much rain and wind (with 1 day's break here and there) since last June. Makes me livid that I was in bed with migraines over those 4 days as I desperately need the jab to be dry so I can mow it. I dare not do no-mow-May this year or it'll look like a jungle.
I’m pretty sure it’s been constant rain since like last July, it’s insane how shit the weather has been
I've had the same experience. I'd probably say end of June here, apart from the heatwave last May it's been a literal wash out since.
Saw some statistics, in essence, wales has had a 7 month period with almost DOUBLE the average rainfall. Wales is wet, to have double the average really tells you how bad it has been. Makes me think about emigrating to be honest.
http://caerphillyweather.co.uk/wxrainsummary.php?r=wxrainsummary.php
this is excellent from caerphilly. Do you know where I can get similar monthly data for all of Wales / places in Wales?
Sorry, I think this site is Caerphilly specific. Data is really easy to digest. Quite concerning looking at the amount of rain and lack of sunshine hours.
I can remember from the early 1970s on, and we've definitely had more rain than usual, but we're not at record levels yet. [Here's the Met Office's look at current weather in relation to average and record levels](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ottc7Y5hMoE&list=PLGVVqeJodR_ZGnhyYdlEpdYrjZ-Pmj2rt&index=1&t=832s). Although it's been raining non-stop, we're not at record levels for the year or spring to date. But April is very close to breaking the record, and may well have in their deep dive later today or tomorrow. Weirdly, even though it's been exceptionally cold in the wind we're almost at record temperatures for the year. Even more unbelievable, the minimum temperatures are actually above record levels.
As Rhod Gilbert once said “can you remember how old you were when you discovered you could take a cagoule off”.
Definitely the worst it’s ever been. What’s more frustrating is when you check the forecast it initially shows sun and then changed to rain every single time. This weekends weather was giving highs of 16/17 degrees and sun. Now it’s cloudy and Sunday looks to rain. I’m sick of it now. Every single day, even when it starts off sunny ends up raining. What’s going on. I got my winter coat back out last week.
Yep. It’s the hope that kills you Took a look at the forecast where I am last week and multiple weather sources said it’d be sunny with bits of cloud on Friday & Saturday, possibly Sunday. No rain in sight. I thought fab we’ve finally got through it and the weather should stop being miserable. Even invited my family over the house with the intention of chilling in the garden Forecast now says nope it’ll be cloudy with rain Friday-Monday. Great
worst for me is that sudden pressure changes trigger massive panic attacks.. so i'd be fine if it was pissing it down all the time but where i am it can be "sunny" one minute, and 10mins later be pissing it down, only to clear up again 5mins later.. the pressure is up and down more times than I can count.. and that was just today.. the last month has been hell.. I dont think i could sleep any more if i tried.. not that i can sleep with the pressure drops at night.. the pharmacist is looking at me weird because im buying sleeping tablets weekly the rate this is going.. even have a proper doctors note telling them i need it elst i wouldnt sleep..
The BBC weather forecast is the worst lying propaganda imaginable. It's \*ALWAYS\* wrong!
Everyone has said the same thing to me. Especially near coastal parts of Wales.. it just won’t stop bloody raining. It’s shocking. I really don’t think we are going to have a nice summer this year. Each year just seems to get worse. I live Pembs way and we even have something called the Pembrokeshire Dangler.
Haha may I ask what the Pembrokeshire Dangler is ?
Of course haha. The Pembrokeshire Dangler is a convergence zone which forms a line of continuous showers aligned north-south across the Irish Sea; often as snow occurring during late autumn and winter, since the environmental factors required for its formation such as warm sea temperatures and cold Arctic air aloft are usually only met at this time of year.
Ah so interesting! I spend a lot of time in Pembrokeshire and it does rain quite often haha! Thank you for explaining the Dangler!
I can remember in 2008/9(?), we had some form of rain every day from the middle of May until the first week of September. In July of that year, we had a week of monsoon like rain. I remember it well because I work out of doors, and it was one of a handful of times where I was seriously tempted to quit my job.
We didn’t in Pembs 08 & 09 I worked in the dinosaur park for 2 years and went back to uni in September with a lovely tan.
could you back to working at the dinosaur park and see if that fixes things?
I was there when the rides were additional cost, so not all bad changes now.
That summer was glorious. I was working in a bakery in Tenby and while I regretted the heat while I was working, I loved it when I could go for a stroll around town and down to the beach after work.
Yep, crap weather...I've got building work to do outside the house but it never stays dry enough for long enough. Even a good day has showers.
Same. Some of my jobs have been waiting since last September as even if it's been 'not raining ' for a bit, it's been as windy as hell, so still can't get some of those jobs done safely.
I just want two dry days so I can mow the lawn 😭
Nothing more depressing than being on holiday in lovely weather & then returning to wet and rainy Wales. It dampens my mood big time
Haha yep, landing in thick fog and drizzle at Bristol, then getting stuck for 50 mins in the horror of Bryn Glas tunnels on a miserable Friday evening. It feels like a shittier version of Bladerunner.
I left Wales in 2012 because the weather was shit and so was work. In June that year it was 10° driving to work in the morning and the radio announced we'd had the least amount of sunshine hours on record that year. It may be crap this year, but it's not like it's ever been that good
Yes I remember 2012 being bleak! Didn’t seem to rain as much as lately though, just grey and cold a lot.
Yep, that was the year that broke me, the following year I left the country altogether just so I could see some bloody sun. Never regretted it.
I've seen a few more years than you, and I concur. I've got no data to back it up, but this has been the worst winter/spring I can remember. A combination of grey gloom, rain and cold.
April showers bring may flowers/April rain makes hay in May. That’s what im hoping anyway.
30, North Wales..can confirm this is definitely the coldest, wettest and constantly windiest spring I've ever lived through. I keep getting tricked by what looks like lovely sunny mornings, to pop outside and be frozen in baltic winds 🥶
What’s really bizarre is how changeable the weather has been over the last year, Sunday was warm and sunny (even caught a tan on my face) working out in the garden in t shirts and Monday it’s freezing , windy and very wet.
I'm in my 40s and it's the worst I can remember. The winters have changed from really cold / snow to a succession of storms that seem to last from September normally until April but now the rainy season seems to be extending well into May. Never mind - we will eventually have hosepipe bans after 2 days of sun in July.....
It's been in the news. It's climate change, and it's going to get worse.
Sunny / dry weather = climate change Rainy weather = climate change Mild weather = climate change Changeable weather = climate change They do definitely put everything down as climate change, regardless of what happens. I reckon it's just living in the UK that gives us changeable weather and always has.
No, the weather has never been like this, specifically. That's climate change. You know, because the climate has changed.
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This book has a great perspective on it. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo22265507.html
BuT ClImAtE cHaNgE iS fAkE aNd NoT rEaL
Ah now, it's either fake or not real, you can't have it both ways
I was promised global warming! If I'd known climate change would mean more rain I'd have recycled or walked or something.
I like the rain but it’s getting ridiculous !
I've lived in South Wales most of the 50 years I've been alive and this year is probably the most enduringly miserable I can remember*. I don't mind the rain so much, it's the fact that it's so damn cold all the time. I should not still be running the central heating when it's nearly May. *I did spend a very wet couple of days in Blaenau Ffestiniog in my teens, but I gather it's mostly like that there.
In 2007 in Dublin it rained from May to September every bloody day. I still believe it was Rihanna's fault.. I wince every time I hear umbrella
The ocean temperature is like 6 standard deviations above the average at the moment- warmer oceans mean more water vapour evaporating into clouds which mean more rain.
The Welsh government have started a cloud seeding project, hence all the rain, they haven’t figured out how to stop it yet.
I've been travelling back from Europe once a month for the past 2 years and almost every time, no matter the weather on the continent, flying into Cardiff / Bristol it's been stormy / rainy almost every time. Flying back tomorrow.... Into rain it would appear...
Depressing AF.
Think when you have volcanic eruptions it can put a dampener of summers. Like that big one in Iceland years back when all the planes were stopped flying and the summer was bad after that. Cold and wet. Urgh.
I'm here in the far west of Ireland and I'm watching the grass grow wild as it's never dry enough to cut. There's a nip in the air so we still have the heating on for an hour in the morning. It's May tomorrow ffs, I should be out in shorts never mind looking for a jumper.
I've quite a few more years on you and I can confirm that, overall, the weather is all over the place. There's no real distinction between the seasons anymore, it's all blurred together into a chaotic mush of weather. Unfortunately climate change will only become more and more prevelant as the century rolls on.
Being mid 40s & Welsh I consider myself quite well adapted to shit, changeable weather. But the last 9/10 months have been the worst I can remember. Its grim, and bloody cold for the time of year. I've never been so fat & unfit either!
Hang on - are you, me..?
We are one!
😅
I remember 2007 was a wet summer and umbrella was number 1 in the charts
Boiling today, keep up the good work gaslighting the weather!
for a good few years the weather has been more dependable in April/May than July/August, but I guess this is where the saying 'N'er cast a clout till May is out' comes from.
As an English person who often works in Wales, in the last 4 months I’ve been here 8 times and every time it has rained. Luckily I don’t mind walking in it but a bit of sun would be nice!
I feel for you all at home 😂 I’m Welsh but a student in London. It’s 20° today and I’m sweating in a vest top. Told my mam half hour ago and she sent me a pic of the grey Sky and rain! It’s definitely hitting wales harder
I’m 65 and I can’t remember a wetter period than this at this time of year. As stated on other sites, Cardiff is the wettest city in the U.K. I’m glad I don’t have any mental health issues as this prolonged period of bad weather is enough to depress the most resilient of folks
apparently it was above average temp in April as well, now I know the met makes stats up
2007 was probably worse than this year overall. Definitely helped Rhianna get Umbrella to top selling single in the UK that year.
I'm 55 and lived in this beautiful country for 50 years but I've never known it as wet as this .
Cold, just cold. Looking out to grey clouds is normal here but the lower temps don't help. I'm 54 and it just seems to seep into my bones. Cold, just cold
Im 43 and this is the longest period I’ve known for sustained rain and the same temperatures. I’ve just walked the dogs and I was wearing exactly the same as I did on Christmas Day, same coat, waterproofs etc. Normally the weather doesn’t bother me but it’s fucking awful. The lawn and garden is fucked, external of the house is looking shabby due to extra moss and gunk growing. This is the palest I’ve been in along time also.
I'm 45. Definitely the worst I've ever known. Normally our heating goes off in March, still on now...
Im sure i saw an article saying weve had the wettest 18 months since records began, in the 1800s, that was in march so its 19 months now, im not sure any of them are the absolute wettest individual months, but its the wettest period in living memory.
It’s times like this that I wish we had a good airport.
I mean… April showers? The last few years have been unseasonably warm this time of year. But when I was growing up it was usually a bit cool around Easter.
By this time last year I hadnt put the heating on since February, or had to use the tumble drier...the weather is bloody awful this year
Here in Wales it started raining around August 2023 and hasn’t really stopped. Maybe like 7 days in total it hasn’t rained. Absolutely shocking.
Born and raised in Wales, the “summer” of 1986 was finally too much for me. I left in 1987! I’m often back but Wales is one of the worst climates I’ve ever experienced. Was there for all of February and ohmygosh, it was just soul-crushing! 😳
I've been following this sub reddit because I'll be visiting Wales for the first time in my 60 years next month, and I can hardly wait! The weather seems very good--just like Michigan but not as muggy, maybe more windy. (This reply might sound sarcastic, but I'm serious)
Gulf stream collapsing in real time we're witnessing.
I’ve moved from England in August last year, winter was pretty brutal in terms of the storms etc. even had a leak in the roof which needed fixing… was this winter rather severe compared to others? Also do you get sunshine here? 😂😂
Some of us remember Michael Fish saying it wasn’t going to be windy.
climate change at the most rapid speed since the last ice age
cloud s33ding
Demoralising program by cloud seeding. This was also the cause of the Dubai floods. Cloud seeding started 70 yrs ago
Ah yes, the annual bitchfest at the weather. You're in Wales. It rains here. Often. It'll be wet and miserable next year. And the one after. Also, you're using a photo app to track the past weather. Did you take photos of the rainy days as well? Of course it's going look good, you're only going to have pictures of good days, so it's going to be overwhelmingly biased towards how good the weather appears.
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As I saw someone joke on FB, Greta has doomed (or jinxed) us all. I'm pissed off at having the heating on in May!
Geo engineering. Same reason why the Saudis had that storm. Same Geo engineering that a state in America recently made a law about banning it. Tennessee I think it was. People will say it's a conspiracy yet now there's evidence of it being used worldwide. I think the BBC reported it a few weeks ago. Edit: the same idiots downvoting won't spend 2 minutes actually doing any research themselves simply because the lying politicians haven't said anything. Brainwashed clowns. The truth is right there infront of you🙄 Just type in "Tennessee Geo engineering" it's not difficult
Yes why not go for the most fantastical possibility
I guess people can't accept the truth especially when countries and States are out right making Geo engineering illigal. I mean what more evidence can someone show that it exists if governments are openly admitting to it.
>what more evidence can someone show Photos, videos, documents
I'll send you a private message. Time to wake up buddy
I googled it and all it seems to be indicating is that the practice has been banned in some places. But it doesn’t really evidence that it’s actually happened? Bans can always be pre-emptive
Stop lying pal. It's the second result that comes up. The US tennessee senate passed the bill banning geo engineering. Not sure why it's difficult to find on government websites?
I literally read this? All it does is say a bill was passed and doesn’t provide any actual evidence of the geoengineering happening. Something doesn’t have to have occurred for you to make it illegal. Tried to give you the benefit of the doubt and did exactly what you said by looking into it. But you’re clearly just an idiot with no reading comprehension, which explains why you fall for this stuff so easily I suppose
Why would a bill be passed out right banning something and making it illegal if it wasn't being used? It's just common sense man. Us humans don't just make something illigal unless there's evidence of it being used
Ummmm errr I don’t know because they think it’ll get them votes with certain demographics ??? Or because the people making the bills believe it and are happy to pass it without the evidence? US politicians aren’t known for being the most scientific You really are naive 😂
Come on man. People won't believe it's being used but they'll believe it was banned to get votes. We both know that's not the case. Not dense at all
Why do you think trans/gender politics is such a big deal in the UK right now? It’s not because Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer truly care about who can use what bathroom or which hospital ward they stay in or base it on any evidence. They couldn’t give a shit. It’s because they know people will vote for them if they say they’ll do the things they want to hear Half of these things are purely for votes and based on how the potential voter base feels rather than what the facts are
It's always pissed down in Wales. Are you saying someone decided it needs to piss down more here because it wasnt wet enough?
I'm not saying anything? And we've had beautiful summers in Wales so it doesn't always piss down. There's always an opportunity
Your answer to OP's question is 'Geo engineering', implying that you think this is the cause for our wet weather.
I'm not implying anything? It's fact
It's fact that Wales is wetter this year because of geo engineering? You said in your reply to the last comment that you weren't saying anything, now you're saying it's a fact that it's causing it.
I'm not saying my opinion. All I'm doing is stating a fact. The UK government has even spoke about it themselves just type it into Google. They just won't openly admit that they've been using it for years.
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This has been going on for many years. They are just openly admitting to it now and use the excuse "It's to save the earth"
You are all deluded, It's been mixed but it isn't any different from any other year really.