Can anyone remember mid spring weather being this bad?

[Deleted User X18H]

....howling wind , horrible rain and bloody freezing.

We are taking the unprecedented step of considering a soft play today, as thinks are that bad outside. Very unusual weekend activity for us.


Is there a danger of the Cup Final being postponed? How much rain can Wembley take?

Indeed could a play-off match be postponed?

 

[Napper]

It is certainly bad and everyone is totally cheesed off with it. What makes it worse is that hot week we had almost as a tease.

In a country where shit weather is generally accepted Oct - April by the end of this period you find people are almost obsessive in anticipation of some half decent weather

Apparently 18 and sunny towards middle/end of the week though

 

[El Presidente]

We are taking the unprecedented step of considering a soft play today

I thought it was quite a regular feature of the HBB household for you to be dressed in an oversized nappy and rabbit romper suit, and for 'mummy' to allow you to play in the ball pit and with the soft toys, before you tell her you have pooped and need changing though...

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Its f***ing miserable today. A total write off. I may cook something nice, catch up on a couple of films and work my way through a bottle of red this afternoon.

 

[empire]

yep,sons footy postponed,waterlogged pitch

 

[somerset]

Gus to Vicente, " We would like you to stay, this place has lots to offer",.... Vicente to Gus, " Have you seen the weather you muppet, I am off"

 

[Chicken Run]

No I cant, however I do remember mid Spring weather being glorious and the rest of the Summer being shit, so here's hoping!

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Heading off to work in Preston park soon. Will probably be the only one there.

Took a snap earlier this morning.

Withdean devastation!

 

[Giraffe]

Don't be a tank. Where doyou think the phrase April showers comes from? It's meant to be like this now.

 

[jevs]

Don't be a tank. Where doyou think the phrase April showers comes from? It's meant to be like this now.

This

 

[Mackenzie]

Wasn't last year just as crap?

 

[upthealbion1970]

Wasn't last year just as crap?

It was about 80 degrees

 

[leigull]

April has given us the best weather of recent years. Seems it's now moved to March though and we're now officially in Autumn again

 

[Notters]

It is certainly bad and everyone is totally cheesed off with it.

I'm not; it's a welcome relief, we're in a severe drought.

What makes it worse is that hot week we had almost as a tease.

Ah yes, my lovely week in the lake district

 

[Stoichkov]

April showers - fair enough - but it rained nearly all night Friday and up until 11am and then stopped for a bit and its been p'ssing it down since 3:30 yesterday afternoon.

I'd like a bit of a break now please...

 

[Medwayseagull]

It is the Tory led Governments fault. First the drought, then the floods, the famine has started with people having to go to food banks to be able to eat and the pestilence started in Downing Street with a plague of idiots running the country.

 

[daveinprague]

Glorious weather here at the moment...quite weird hearing my mother moaning about the weather there...

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Sadly, despite all of the recent rain, we're pretty much guaranteed that the drought will be with us for the entire summer.

The problem is that it's been soooooo dry for soooooo long that the recent rain is either being absorbed by the very dry top layers of the ground (reducing the soil moisture deficit), running off, evaporating or being taken up by plants.

As this report points out, the groundwater levels have not even been touched by all that rain.

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Research/WE_240312.pdf

so, we can have the odd situation where above ground it's flooding, whilst below ground we're in drought.

 

[severnside gull]

certainly has been persistantly bad for a week or so but then last month's sunny spell lasted longer.

I can readily remember years when it has been duller for longer with more consecutive wet days and I can remember many years when it has been colder (snow in May is not that uncommon).
The media seem to be very selective when they trumpet the news that this is the worst/most abherent weather since records began ........ it clearly suggests that no records were kept for much of my lifetime

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Sadly, despite all of the recent rain, we're pretty much guaranteed that the drought will be with us for the entire summer.

The problem is that it's been soooooo dry for soooooo long that the recent rain is either being absorbed by the very dry top layers of the ground (reducing the soil moisture deficit), running off, evaporating or being taken up by plants.

As this report points out, the groundwater levels have not even been touched by all that rain.

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Research/WE_240312.pdf

so, we can have the odd situation where above ground it's flooding, whilst below ground we're in drought.

Happens a lot in Australia, we can get torrential rain for a whole day but does nothing the water reserves.