The official winter rain, wind, snow and ice thread 2023/24

[cuprabob]

Matt.. said:

It looks like I should have moved to Scotland for March!

I'm in Ayrshire and that map is certainly not my March 2024 experience. Average rainfall, my @rse

Edited by cuprabob on Tuesday 2nd April 17:56

[TGCOTF-dewey]

Blib said:

I'm in the East Anglian brown bit on the map.

The fields are still so sodden that we choose not to walk them with the dog.

Yeah... Brown just means muddy. Blue is flooded.

[phil1979]

I fking hate the British media

[MiniMan64]

phil1979 said:

I fking hate the British media

Get. To. fk.

[ChocolateFrog]

phil1979 said:

I fking hate the British media

When I read that not a single person had been prosecuted for using a hosepipe I just ignore it now.

[abzmike]

Just been outside to get logs for the fire… hosing down and 6C at the moment, rain not really forecast virtually every day until next weekend, double figure temperatures not until Saturday. Miserable.

[Scabutz]

Started off a fairly nice day. Dried the washing outside for a bit.

Then was sat reading and thought what's that noise, is a tap dripping. No, no. It's pissing it down again.

[juice]

We have drizzle now, makes a nice change from the stair rod type of rain.

[remedy]

phil1979 said:

I fking hate the British media

on the 26th March remedy predicted said:

75Black said:

Tim Cognito said:

Looks like roughly more of the same through into the last half of April doesn't it?

Yep....we've been blessed with an Atlantic low that hasn't moved since about oh I don't know...July 2023.

Hosepipe ban, incoming.

Media being media, unfortunately.

[Hereward]

Full reservoirs can be emptied in ~2months, no?

Not sure what the national aquifer situation is like, I assume they can take years to refill.

[leglessAlex]

phil1979 said:

I fking hate the British media

Why? For highlighting that the water companies haven't done anything with their profits for the last however many years, and that a few months of low rainfall is enough to wipe out our pathetic infrastructure, despite a record rainfall of the last 18 months?

The article repeatedly highlights that the UK is far, far below where it needs to be on the water storage front, why is that the media's fault?

Edit: I didn’t want that to sound argumentative, sorry. I agree, our media is rubbish, but other than a slightly clickbaity headline I don’t think there was too much wrong or hysterical about the article.

Edited by leglessAlex on Wednesday 3rd April 08:25

[GetCarter]

leglessAlex said:

Not seen this posted yet, GetCarter did you notice March being particularly dry up your way?

More than double the average for Hampshire, after the same in February. Sigh. It really gets me down, and the garden is an absolute disgrace, I haven't been out tidying it at all.

Yep, March was mostly dry and sunny. For the past few years we have approached May with almost drought conditions. They even had to bring water in by lorry a couple of years ago. (We are not on mains water)

Summer will be a washout. It almost always is.

These picnic table outside the local pub will be full in July, and it'll be raining!

Edited by GetCarter on Wednesday 3rd April 07:16

[Blib]

Blib said:

I'm in the East Anglian brown bit on the map.

The fields are still so sodden that we choose not to walk them with the dog.

leglessAlex said:

I'm guessing this has something to do with it, Blib

TGCOTF-dewey said:

Yeah... Brown just means muddy. Blue is flooded.

Fair points, well made.

[Frimley111R]

phil1979 said:

I fking hate the British media

Every Spring: Summer heatwave predicted/Indian Summer etc.

Every Autumn: Coldest winter ever forecast/North Pole etc.

Death, taxes and this repetitive st...

[Portofino]

Still raining here in the Gatwick area. Garden still flooded.

Absolutely sick of this.

[leglessAlex]

GetCarter said:

Yep, March was mostly dry and sunny. For the past few years we have approached May with almost drought conditions. They even had to bring water in by lorry a couple of years ago. (We are not on mains water)

Summer will be a washout. It almost always is.

These picnic table outside the local pub will be full in July, and it'll be raining!

Similar to Galway weather, although both being coast Atlantic, maybe that’s not surprising. May into June normally lovely, July and August guaranteed awful, September often lovely.

That’s a magnificent view. Makes me want to go back.

[W124]

North Cotswolds here. Weather has been awful since August last year. I’m a stoic chap about such things, but an Inspector Dreyfuss like twitch is developing now.

[Wills2]

leglessAlex said:

phil1979 said:

I fking hate the British media

Why? For highlighting that the water companies haven't done anything with their profits for the last however many years, and that a few months of low rainfall is enough to wipe out our pathetic infrastructure, despite a record rainfall of the last 18 months?

The article repeatedly highlights that the UK is far, far below where it needs to be on the water storage front, why is that the media's fault?

Edit: I didn’t want that to sound argumentative, sorry. I agree, our media is rubbish, but other than a slightly clickbaity headline I don’t think there was too much wrong or hysterical about the article.

Indeed of all the countries we are very well placed to have a resilient water infrastructure to cope with the changing weather, we're certainly not short of rainfall but it's easier to take a dividend and blame CC rather than use the money to do what they should.

Quite how we could conclude that handing over the very staff of life to private equity was the right thing to do is beyond me.

[Puggit]

MetOffice have also made warnings about possible issues with water supplies this summer if it goes dry - not sure it's a media thing, with the total lack of investment in water retention and a growing population, we're only going in one direction...


Meanwhile, nasty weekend coming up - Iberia and Ireland taking the brunt, but west coast not looking pretty either:
https://x.com/DerekTheWeather/status/1775449208528...

[Jordan247]

Central Beds here, and the BBC is reporting that Saturday will be 18c, sunny and cloudy, Sunday, 17c sunny and cloudy and repeat for Monday and Tuesday.

Although I suspect Puggit will tell me they are completely wrong