• thehatfox@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Maybe it’s just me but it’s felt like a particular bleak January and February this year.

    Happy to see some sun even if that also comes with the start of allergy season.

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      For about 90% of the country, this winter has been among the wettest on record.

      Rainfall map UK winter 25-26

      3 counties saw their wettest on record (since 1837), 16 more had top 5 wettest and 41 more had top 10.

      And just so people don’t think this is an outlier and not part of a wider trend:

      Wettest winter on record

      For almost the entire UK, the wettest winter on record was within the last 15 years.

    • ExistentialNightmare@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 days ago

      I completely agree and relate to this to the point to where it feels uncanny, like as if I just read my own words. Past couple of months have been visually miserable and that does have an effect on mental health - Wake up, grey, midday, grey, barely existent sun goes down before you’ve even woken up properly.

      And now the sun returns and it comes with bloody headaches and earaches and a dry throat. Earth, why do you make me suffer like this?

  • toynbee@piefed.social
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    6 days ago

    When I was pretty young, I attended a sleepover at a friend’s house. I have always been a light sleeper and woke up before anyone else … Only to get concerned and wake up a friend to ask why there was a giant spotlight in the distance.

    To be fair, my parents covered every window in their house every night and the room in which I slept wouldn’t have had a good angle to see that directly anyway. He still looked at me like I was a dumbass before he answered, though.

  • Zombie@feddit.uk
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    6 days ago

    Sunshine was last recorded in the city three weeks ago, on 21 January. This is the longest sunless period in the area since Met Office records began in 1957.

    Residents of the Granite City finally glimpsed the sun late on Thursday afternoon.

    And the Met Office confirmed that 30 minutes of sunshine, external was officially recorded in the Dyce area in the hour up to 16:00.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14mlrd460vo

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    https://www.bbc.com/weather/articles/c17x8v0jj00o

    2025 has been the UK’s sunniest year on record

    The Met Office has announced that 2025 has been the sunniest year in the UK since records began in 1910.

    With two weeks of the year still to go, provisional data shows that 1622 hours of sunshine have been recorded, beating the previous record set back in 2003.

  • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    I think it’s a tired joke tbh

    The British get plenty of sun, about a month’s worth of it, it’s just spread across 365 random days that have no rhyme or reason to them, and usually one random hell week in summer where all you want it to do is rain cause it’s so damn high pressure.

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      6 days ago

      ooh, me, pick me, sacrifice me pls