Why does British weather suck so much?

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The weather here is lovely:
Note, times are BST (UTC+0100)
Monday:
7 pm - Heavy Rain
10 pm - Heavy Rain

Tuesday:
1 am - Medium-level Cloud
4 am - Medium-level Cloud
7 am - Sunny Intervals
10 am - Medium-level Cloud
1 pm - Sunny Intervals
4 pm - Sunny Intervals
7 pm - Light Rain Shower
10 pm - Clear Sky

Wednesday:
1 am - Clear Sky
4 am - Partly Cloudy
7 am - Low-level Cloud
10 am - Medium-level Cloud
1 pm - Heavy Rain Shower
4 pm - Medium-level Cloud
7 pm - Medium-level Cloud
10 pm - Partly Cloudy

Thursday:
1 am - Medium-level Cloud
4 am - Partly Cloudy
7 am - Medium-level Cloud
10 am - Sunny Intervals
1 pm - Heavy Rain Shower
4 pm - Heavy Rain Shower
7 pm - Thundery Shower
10 pm - Medium-level Cloud

Friday:
1 am - Medium-level Cloud
4 am - Partly Cloudy
7 am - Medium-level Cloud
10 am - Sunny Intervals
1 pm - Sunny Intervals
4 pm - Light Rain Shower
7 pm - Sunny Intervals
10 pm - Partly Cloudy

In short... there's hardly any sunshine this week.

Also, in my region, South East England, the sunniest place had a sunshine total of 2.7 hours today. The sunnIEST, and the highest rainfall was 18.8 mm, or 0.74 inches
 
Want to trade? It's been sunny as hell here and I like the cold.
 
TUK likes to make the cloud gods angry in his free time.
 
Flaming Machete13 said:
Want to trade? It's been sunny as hell here and I like the cold.
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It's not really that cold though, that's the problem.
It's certainly not as hot as America or continental Europe, but's it's still pretty warm, and very humid.
The weather has been unusually changeable even for Britain lately, though. I remember a couple of weeks ago I experienced some very odd weather. First it was about 23C and very humid, then in a matter of seconds a torrential downpour started (this is unusual for Britain; we don't normally get sudden heavy rain, just perpetual drizzle), then within 10 minutes of the rain stopping, there wasn't a single cloud in the sky.

As for why the British weather is like this, it basically what we get for being right in the line of the Gulf stream. We're at the same latitude as much of eastern Europe and even some of southern Scandinavia. It's because of the Gulf stream that we have far milder winters than they do, but as a trade-off we get wetter summers.
 
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The weather in Britain has been pretty weird... just 3 weeks ago, we had temperatures up to 33 Celsius, and in my area, about 29 or 30, and today, we're barely touching 16 Celsius, and that's in the day time. Not to mention, we're getting a lot of rain, when just last month, areas were actually officially classified as being in a drought. I'll expect it'll be snowing next week, the way the weather is going.
 
Magikarp Ownd said:
IT HASN'T RAINED HERE FOR NINE MONTHS PLEASE DEAR GOD HELP ME
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I'll send that to you, but it's a packaged deal with GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL.

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ya rly.

"The risk for potentially damaging storms continues on Tuesday with the threat for heavy rain, large hail and damaging winds once again." ~Weather Network
 
So, what's going on now in my area... er... so, the 3-hourly forecast from roughly now, until the end of Sunday is:

Thursday:
1 am - Medium-level cloud (13 C)
4 am - Drizzle (13 C)
7 am - Light rain (13 C)
10 am - Heavy rain (14 C)
1 pm - Medium-level cloud (16 C)
4 pm - Heavy rain shower (16 C)
7 pm - Sunny intervals (16 C)
10 pm - Medium-level cloud (15 C)

Friday:
1 am - Medium-level cloud (14 C)
4 am - Partly cloudy (13 C)
7 am - Sunny intervals (12 C)
10 am - Sunny (15 C)
1 pm - Sunny intervals (18 C)
4 pm - Light rain shower (18 C)
7 pm - Light rain shower (17 C)
10 pm - Partly cloudy (14 C)

Saturday:
1 am - Clear sky (12 C)
4 am - Clear sky (10 C)
7 am - Sunny (12 C)
10 am - Sunny (15 C)
1 pm - Sunny intervals (17 C)
4 pm - Medium-level cloud (18 C)
7 pm - Medium-level cloud (17 C)
10 pm - Medium-level cloud (14 C)

Sunday:
1 am - Partly cloudy (13 C)
4 am - Partly cloudy (11 C)
7 am - Sunny intervals (12 C)
10 am - Sunny (15 C)
1 pm - Sunny intervals (19 C)
4 pm - Sunny (20 C)
7 pm - Sunny (20 C)
10 pm - Clear sky (17 C)

So, would 16 celsius (or 61 fahrenheit) in the day be unusually cold for summer in your area, or about average?

Anyway, it seems it's slowy getting more sunnier... but I bet by about Wednesday, .... we'll have rain. Apparently, on average, a typical British summer has rain, every other day, at least somewhere, at some point.... do I need to remind anyone of the Summer of 2007, in which the moment the rain started, Rihanna's "Umbrella" was an Number 1, and that as soon as the period of rain stopped, 10 weeks later, not by coincidence, her song is suddenly not Number 1, and that the whole situation became known as the "Rihanna curse" or something:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_%28song%29#.22Rihanna_Curse.22

I'm just glad I don't live near Death Valley -- 50 degrees celsius in the day, and 25 celsius in the night? I'd be surprised if my matress hadn't just been soaked through so much, it just worn away.
 
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