Warmest May on record, apparently

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1797621849469133004

I’m not one for conspiracies, but surely not?

Pretty sure I had my heating on more days than the sun shone.

May 2020 felt like a heatwave in comparison to this year.

 

[Ex Footy Legs]

13.5 degrees average across the UK - Jeez...where's that factor 30 !

Didn't feel like a particularly warm month, decent but no more than decent.

 

[LowMoorBoro]

Wasn’t it also one of the wettest Mays in history? It doesn’t seem the same if it’s warm but just raining every day.

 

[On The Bob]

Barring the odd good day, I don’t see it but I don’t think we’ve been as lucky with the Weather in the North East.

It may have been warm on the charts but also very wet. It’s been on the wettest starts to Spring I can remember in a long while. I assume this may become the norm with Global Warming though. More interchangeable weather for a climate like ours.

 

[Heine_Otto]

We had relatively mild nights in May, so I guess all of that is factored in. Typically you can still get a few frosty nights in May but I can’t recall a single one.

 

[newusername]

I’m not one for conspiracies, but surely not?

Pretty sure I had my heating on more days than the sun shone.

May 2020 felt like a heatwave in comparison to this year.

It includes night time temperatures and the cloud cover meant the nights didn't get as low as they usually do even if the day time temps were nothing to write home about.

 

[GibbosEmpire]

We haven't had our heating on since maybe March.

 

[Norman_Conquest]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1797621849469133004

I’m not one for conspiracies, but surely not?

Pretty sure I had my heating on more days than the sun shone.

May 2020 felt like a heatwave in comparison to this year.

This week is the only time we haven't had the fire lit.

 

[Millbrook]

I play golf on Wed & Sun and can only think of 1 day in May when I could play in a shirt and no wooly. As well as the wet it seemed that the wind was always cool.

 

[Norman_Conquest]

We haven't had our heating on since maybe March.

You live down south and it is a good overcoat warmer.

 

[GibbosEmpire]

You live down south and it is a good overcoat warmer.

True, but January and February was ridiculously cold at night, I was wearing 6 layers on top including a thick coat, a hat, gloves, 2 layers trousers and sometimes 3 or 4 pairs of socks.

 

[Boro4life]

I felt freezing the whole month really had the heating on all the time didn't feel warm

 

[MolteniArcore]

True, but January and February was ridiculously cold at night, I was wearing 6 layers on top including a thick coat, a hat, gloves, 2 layers trousers and sometimes 3 or 4 pairs of socks.

In bed??

 

[newusername]

It is also an El Nino year and our summer weather is often poor during them, UK heatwaves seem to coincide with La Nina.

 

[Yearbyred]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1797913626831138905

 

[GibbosEmpire]

In bed??

Working outside at night

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

May 2020 becomes the sunniest calendar month on record

May has become the sunniest calendar month on record in the UK

www.metoffice.gov.uk

Those were the days...

 

[fmttmadmin]

We had relatively mild nights in May, so I guess all of that is factored in. Typically you can still get a few frosty nights in May but I can’t recall a single one.

It was the mild nights that meant it was warmer.

 

[r00fie1]

I've got a canoe in the porch in case I have to paddle to the corner shop.
At least the rain means don't have to water the plants

 

[TarquinF]

It is also an El Nino year and our summer weather is often poor during them, UK heatwaves seem to coincide with La Nina.

Interesting.
So next year will be an absolute corker then.